Okkervil River – Lay Of The Last Survivor (Guitar)

Capo 2
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Chords

[Verse 1]
         D
She went out and found

      A                      G
Her father face down on the ground

            A
Out in the cold
[Verse 2]
               D
She walked her way around

   A                        G
A hill with the sun sinking down

        A
Into the snow
[Verse 3]
         Em   G          D      A
All the whitecaps of the waves slap

           Em   G
Like last hand claps

        A                    Em
And the dark water dies in a crash

                      D
Is sucked back with a moan

                      A
And the smoke on the coast
[Verse 4]
           Em
Oh, piled fathers

               G         A
Soft, sighing daughters

              Em    G   A
Where does it go?
[Instrumental] D [Verse 5]
       D
It's a dream, now

      A
I'll describe

                       G          A
Let your mind drift on down, like so
[Verse 6]
              D
To when the world was young

           A                         G
A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue

                    A
A new bloom on the rose
[Interlude]
         Em          G
So some line someone told says

      D           A
Even light can get old
[Verse 7]
                 Em
Oh, slobbering lovers

               G
Drink-clinking brothers

           A                           Em   G  A  x3
They don't have to tell us, 'cause we know
[Instrumental] D [Verse 8]
       D
What a way down

        A                        G
What a ride, what a slide spin-around

                    A
What a life to have known
[Verse 9]
         D
What a time

               A                G
And how I was singing out in a crowd

                                 A
Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known
[Verse 10]
             Em   G
And when the lighthouse

               D              A
Lending us sight finally went out

        Em       G
What a fright we felt

         A
In that night
[Verse 11]
                      Em
Friends just shout it out

                   D
All the whys and don't knows

                  A
All the cries in our throats

         Em        G
And how right we felt
[Verse 12]
                    D
With our eyes tightly closed

                      A
Holding something we broke

                    Em
And then whimpering sisters

         G
Sobbing well-wishers

      A
It's over
[Outro]
                 D
Just let my hand go