Okkervil River – The Rise (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
C
All the riders on the rise

Fmaj7
Circlers from every side

C
All the riders on the rise

Fmaj7
Circlers from every side
[Chorus 1]
Am
Eyes up!

               G
Light floods around

                         Am
in a yellow shadow after night

                      G
Comes down in a grand fall,

                               Am         G
in a dull dumb swipe and all’s white.
[Verse 2]
C
Fire painting on the pines

Fmaj7
And hawks above the timber-line

C
Water weeping from the ice

Fmaj7
Water weeping from the ice
[Chorus 2]
Am
Heat is lost

       G  
Winter rocks into a lonely boxwood grove

    Am
And quiet snowfall

         G
Smothers all of the lawns where the ladies coughed and cried,

Fmaj7                      G
"I don't want to be there when it's time!"
[Verse 3]
C
The dying stag is on his side

Fmaj7
The dying stag is on his side

C
The wind is beating through the briers

Fmaj7
The wind is beating through the briers

C
The dying stag is on his side

Fmaj7
The dying stag is on his side

C
The wind is beating through the briers

Fmaj7
The wind is beating through the briers
[Chorus 3]
Am
Waves on the graves of the saints

      G  
Dull grey as the sea pushes land away

Am
Dull ache when you wake

     G
Grey smoke shows the way you walk down by when it’s time

Fmaj7                     G
I don't want to be there when it's time
[Outro]
      Em
To go down, down

                   F
I don't want to go down there alone

Em
Down down

                   F
I don't want to go down there alone

Em             F
Down down down down

Em             F
Down down down down

Em             F
Down down down down

Em             F
Down down down down
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