Okkervil River – Mary On A Wave (Guitar)

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[Intro] G Em7 Bm/D [Verse 1]
G
Coal-black virgin spinning Above an open ocean

  Em7                   Bm/D
I hear, I feel, I need, I know

G
Seven sailors swimming, shipwrecked Seven smudgy mirrors

Em7                        Bm/D
         You gotta let 'em go

        Am7                  
Well I checked out the royal place

C                               G          Gmaj7
  Saw the babies all bathed in champagne

   Am7                  C
So many miles of dirt I traveled

                      G            Gmaj7
Just to park here in your shade
[Chorus]
Cmaj7           Em7          C C/B C/A C/G
Borne away on a wave of love

Am7             C
Borne away on a wave
[Interlude] G Em7 Bm/D x2 [Verse 2]
G
Well they picked poor Robin clean In the shadow ravine

Em7                         Bm/D
I seen the bones, I seen his teeth

G
Well, it's scrawled upon the streets Our enemy's victory's complete

              Em7                            Bm/D
And they'll be coming to collect within the next few hundred weeks

        Am7                      C
I get a little soft shiver in my shoulder

                               G        Gmaj7  
Cause I think there's someone watching

         Am7                       C
I get a little soft whistle in my ears now

                               G      Gmaj7
But I guess it's just time passing
[Chorus]
Cmaj7           Em7          C C/B C/A C/G
Borne away on a wave of love

Am7             C
Borne away on a wave
[Interlude] G Em7 Bm/D x2 [Verse 3]
G
Blessed blue-black virgin shifting In the ocean's rhythm

Em7                   Bm/D
Partly living tissue, partly always hidden

G
Give me strength & vision Watch over the earth

              Em7                       
It's listing, lady, like it's almost broken

 Bm/D
Are my eyes now closed or opened?

    Am7                                  C
Our parents are fading out, fading out, fading out

                 G          Gmaj7
Into the fuzzy fuzz

  Am7                         C
"I can't", I gasp, I gasp and pant

                                G      Gmaj7
I can't get enough air into my lungs

           Am7             C
I see the bald head of a vulture

                        G     Gmaj7
Come cresting up the stairs

C                     Am7
Time holds me, greenish-brown

                       G           Gmaj7
And dying, in a studio somewhere
[Chorus]
Cmaj7           Em7          C C/B C/A C/G
Borne away on a wave of love

Am7             C
Borne away on a wave
[Outro] G Em7 Bm/D