Sufjan Stevens – John My Beloved (Guitar)

Am          Em         Bm7
Are we to speak, first day of the week

C          G            D
Stumbling words at the bar

Am           Em       Bm7
Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries

C             G           D
Long island kindness and wine

   Am       Em     Bm7
Beloved of John, I get it all wrong

    C           G           D
I read you for some kind of poem

Am           Em         Bm7
Covered in lines, the fossils I find

C             G             D
Have they no life of their own?

Em          Bm7
So can we pretend sweetly

   C       G        D
Before the mystery ends?

       C                        G
I am a man with a heart that offends

          C          G       D
With its lonely and greedy demands

        Em      D        G        C         G            D
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead

Am       Em          Bm7
Such a waste, your beautiful face

C          G       D
Stumbling carpet arise

    Am         Em         Bm7
Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend

C        G           D
Icarus, point to the sun

     Am      Em      Bm7
If history speaks of two baby teeth

C                  G             D
I’m painting the hills blue and red

Am           Em    Bm7
They said beware, Lord hear my prayer

       C         G             D
I’ve wasted my throes on your head

Em              Bm7
So can we be friends, sweetly

   C         G      D
Before the mystery ends?

            C                          G   
I love you more than the world can contain

         C            G       D
In its lonely and ramshackle head

         Em      D        G        C          G           D
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead

     Am         Em
I’m holding my breath

    Bm7
My tongue on your chest

C             G          D
What can be said of my heart?

    Am       Em          Bm7
If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek

C              G           D
Where there remains but a mark

   Am       Em        Bm7
Beloved my John, so I’ll carry on

C            G             D
Counting my cards down to one

Am             Em          Bm7
And when I am dead, come visit my bed

C             G           D
My fossil is bright in the sun

Em           Bm7
So can we contend, peacefully

   C       G      D
Before my history ends?

          C                          G  
Jesus I need you, be near, come shield me

       C           G          D
From fossils that fall on my head

         Em      D        G        C          G           D
There’s only a shadow of me; in a manner of speaking I'm dead