Josh Ritter – Potters Wheel (Guitar)

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I close my eyes, and it all returns like the spinning of a potter's wheel

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Trying to stay ahead of morning as time came running with us

        C                           D
And she beat us to the finish as we ran through the fields

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You were born in the city, and I didn't recognize you

     C                        D
Your beauty unexpected like a flower in the concrete

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Some gods far below in worlds undiscovered

        C                          D
Set you up to ruin temples to find me on the streets, yeah

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I'm an alias of who I am a counterfeited fake

       C                            D
In the picture I am kneeling like a dying saint Jerome

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Hurling rocks at the demons who tried to come too near

          C                              D
'Till you came in and possessed me now I feel at home

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I remember the time I walked for seven hours

    C                              D
And thought about the people I had known for so long

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All the castles I had built out of fine and precious sand

          C                                 D
'Till you came in like the tide now I don't care that they are gone

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As we floated up the river I translated the verses

          C                           D
That were written on memorials to the ships that had sank

      G                                   G/B
And I thought about the people that traded sinking for uncertainty

    C                                D
And drowned because of loneliness before they reached the banks

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On a beach near Barcelona the young girls cry for Mary

         C                           D
And they bury earthen vessels in the rocks by the sea

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I am sending out a bottle with a prayer upon the waves

            C                                D
That you'll find inside my picture, and your memory will unfold me

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We were talking about a trip that I had taken to the canyons

        C                           D
And you told me of a river that had cut through time

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Leaving only the pictures of long dead sons and daughters

        C                                D
And you told that the paintings looked a lot like mine

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I try and watch myself to see what I am saying

       C                              D
But my heart is on my collar, and I'm asking you to take it

        G                      G/B
I don't want to go back to the way things were before

           C                              D
Before the dawn turns into morning I want you there to break it

      G                               G/B
And a thousand years from now when our names are just a memory

    C                        D
And poets have recorded what happened in the past

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Lovers loving in the night will find our forms in constellations

        C                                   D
Seekers seeking for salvation will find our stories in the stained glass

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A boy in the city who has never seen the morning

        C                       D
As he's running arm in arm with you through the fields

        G                      G/B
Will be caught unexpected by a flower in the concrete

        C                            D
It will all return again just like a potter's wheel