The Dear Hunter – The Lake And The River (Guitar)

Am                        E
Everything you'd live and die for

G                           D7 D/F#
Reasons leading you through here

Am
Perished matriarchal bonds

E
Failing innocence of love

G
When the world beckons your approach

E
It swallows you whole

Am                         Dm
You'll believe what you're led to believe

       C                            E    E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible

       F                Dm
Wait to see what you're meant to see

   C                                E
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Am                        Am Am/B   C Csus2
Pray'd I would leave this place someday

           Am                     Am Am/B C
Joined to alarm from long ago now unconcerned

             Am                            Am Am/B C
Euphorically floating upon wax wings where is the sun?

                Am
I still see her face; her beauty, her grace

   Am Am/B        C
Transfixed like a light in front of me

F
It follows my soul

F              Dm   E E7
And swallows me whole

Am                         Dm
You'll believe what you're led to believe

       C                            E    E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible

       F                Dm
Wait to see what you're meant to see

   C                                E
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Am7                   Asus2
Left right, left right

Am7                   Asus2
Left right, left right

Am7                   Asus2
Left right, left right

Am7                   Asus2
Left right, left right

Am7                   Asus2
Left right, left right

Am7                   Asus2
Left right, left right

Am                     Am Am/B C Csus2
His branches reached so far before

                Am                    Am Am/B C Csus2
His leaves were bold extremities with great control

       F7             Dm   E E7
Wasted along; he died alone

Am Dm
You'll believe what you're led to believe

C E E7
In the hands of ghosts we're never responsible

F Dm
Wait to see what you're meant to see

C E
The veil lifts when you expose your soul

Am         Dm       Am      Dm
She's inanimate, bloodless elegance

      C           Em        C       E
Fatal fascination breeds a bloom of misery

Am               Dm       Am      Dm
Helpless hiding tongues, bathed in revulsion

           C      Em    C       E
Here lies possibility wilting premature

Am                           C                                 Am
But the right hand hates the left and the sea's upset with the sky

             C
So we press on in spite of the spite

Am                                                                    Am/Bb  C
Happiness is a warm knife when the worlds on its side and your minds on fie

E                   Am                                                Am/Bb C
Don't you know that happiness is a warm knife when the world is on fire