The Mountain Goats – Peru (Guitar)

F                   Bb           F              Dm
  You were already talking when I woke up today

       F            C            Bb                        C
For a man on combat rations, you sure do find a lot to say

F                   Bb   Dm                Bb
  Try to fix my attention - can't clear my head

F                      C
  Sun clearing the waterline

Bb                     C
   Hot and deadly and red

              Dm              Bb
Like the flowers you said you wrote about

 F                        Bb                F
About a million years ago, you said they grew

   Bb            C
On a distant mountain in Peru

F                            Bb
I don't want the water to break you

F                             Dm
Let me lead you back to the fire

              F                            C
You've always got a little further to drop

Bb                             C   F/C
When you've risen that much higher

F                           Bb
  Fear in my heart like a shadow

Dm                             Bb
I can't let it lingеr too long

F                            C
When your gift begins to consume you

Bb                            C
Onе of us will have to be strong

            Dm                      Bb
Like the flowers that die in the winter

    F                           Bb
But never fail to grow back new

           F               C              Dm
In the cracks down in the canyons in Peru

Eb
   In the deep crevices

          Bb
Where you wouldn't think the light could reach

F                 Eb        Dm
Distant as a dream of the cradle

Db                     C Csus4 Csus2 C
On this lonesome beach

F                                     Bb
Let the man whose heart would know peace

Dm                                     Bb
   Praise all the things that he should praise

F                          C
Just about a week in the future

Bb                                    C
These are going to seem like the good days

            F                                   Bb
Because the snake is going to rise from the pit

    Dm                           Bb
And brother will turn against brother

F                           C
We won't have a minute to lose

   Bb                        C
At most we'll only have each other

            Bb                C                       Dm
Like the flowers you said you saw when you were young

                        Bb
When you were still you

            G7                  C7
Like the flowers you may have imagined

         A7                           Bb
Doing what their nature tells them to

           F           C        F
Worlds away in the wind in Peru