Great Lake Swimmers - Three Days at Sea (Three Lost Years)

*Big thanks to Ben on this one*


B................D...............A
First day, I was lost at sea

..........C..............G
I had nothing to eat

........Bb.........................D
But I thought home was near

B..............D
I found myself in an

A................C
Unfamiliar place

..............G
My first night

..........Bb..............D
On an unfamiliar tide


D
Second day I woke up

Dm
Had almost forgotten

Am
I had never thought to

C
Try on different coloured robes

D
And I was face down in the

Dm
In the sand and I was

Am
Lucky to be alive

C
Lucky to have survived



G
And on the third day

Em
I was weak so I

C
Collapsed on the beach

G
And I died of hunger

G
And when they found me

C
They saw how much that

Em
I had changed, I had

C
I had changed, I had

G
I have changed, I have

Em
I have changed, I have

C
I have changed, I have

G
I have changed, I have

Em...C
G...Em...C (until the end)

Great Lake Swimmers - Pulling on a Line

D

A...................G....................D.............A
The line runs through like a train in a book

A................G................D...................A
Or metres underwater, ending with a hook
It sways in the air when there's
wind enough to lift,
The fine ones are boundaries when
There is a rift


D...........................Bm
I'm just pulling on a line, on a line

G...........................D
I'm just pulling on a line

D..........................Bm
I'm just pulling on a line, on a line

G...............................D
Sometimes it pulls on me

The line, it inks across the freshly fallen snow,
Where only those embracing coldness would go
It whistles and it whispers, and sometimes it howls,
It sings to me sweetly from the trees and in vowels

I'm just pulling on a line, on a line
I'm just pulling on a line
I'm just pulling on a line, on a line,
And sometimes it pulls on me

The line, it writes itself across the dark sky,
In the electric flushes ending with a sigh
It weaves itself into a fabric so true
and flows just like the river, graceful and blue

I'm just pulling on a line, on a line,
I'm just pulling on a line
I'm just pulling on a line, on a line
And sometimes it pulls on me

Great Lake Swimmers - Bodies and Minds

Bm..A..G..D


Bm..............A........G.............D
O hold me O holy O golden O grace

Bm.....................................A
Down here in fear, down where none can hear

........G..................D
Any whisper, any word

Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
No sudden moves
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
No sudden moves

Singing sorry to you, and sorry to you
Sleep won’t come till I’m sorry to you
For my body and my mind
Singing sorry to you, and sorry to you
Sleep won’t come till I’m sorry to you
From my body and my mind

Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
No sudden moves
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
Don’t wanna, you wanna
You wanna see it through

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Great Lake Swimmers - Moving, Shaking

Intro: C...G...Fmaj7...C

............C......................G...............Fmaj7...C
I can’t write, I can’t sing, I can’t play
My insides have been broken
My inspiration has flown away
And it’s hard to see all the little things

There’s a universe in a crack in the wall
Or an ant crawling across a broken tile
But it’s hard to see all the little things
When the big things get in the way

I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, I can’t think straight
I did not know it could be like this
Some things are better off being left alone
There are things that are best left unknown

Oh hands, don’t fail me now
They’re the only things I have left
Oh fingers, don’t let me down now
They’re the only things that I’ve got

Oh world come, come crashing down now
Oh hands don’t fail me now
Oh let me become deaf and mute to this
Oh hands don’t fail me now

Fmaj7...........C................G..........Fmaj7
I’m carrying my life in a cardboard box

...............C..................G
I carry a bag on my back
I’m carrying my life in a cardboard box
I carry a bag on my back

Oh hands, don’t fail me now
They’re the only things that I’ve got
Oh fingers, don’t let me down now
Oh hands don’t fail me now
Oh elbows fall down around me
Oh hands don’t fail me now
Oh fingers don’t let me down now
Oh hands don’t fail me now

Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine

Capo III

Em.......................D

I was lost in the lakes

A7.......................................C

and the shapes that your body makes

Em....................................................D

that your body makes that your body makes

A7..........................C

that your body makes

D....C....D....C....

and the mountains said I can find you here
they whispered the snow and the leaves in my ear
I traced my finger along your trails
your body was the map I was lost in it

G.................................D

floating over your rocky spine

A....................................................C

the gray shears made you and now your mine (2x)

I was moving across your frozen veneer
the sky was dark you were clear
could you feel my footsteps
would you shatter would you shatter would you

and your soft fingers between my claws
like purity against resolve
I could tell then there we were falling from a plane
and came from the rocks for the earth to display

they told me to be careful up there
were the wind blows a venomous rage through your hair
they told me to be careful up there
were the wind rages through your hair

Great Lake Swimmers - Moving Pictures, Silent Films

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b-------------------------------------------------
g---4-----2------0------0------0----------------
d--5-5---4-4---2-2----4-----2--2-----2----4----
a----------------------5-----3-3--3---3-3/5-5---
e--------------------------------------------------

Great Lake Swimmers - When It Flows

C..........Fmaj7
When it flows from the fingers

C......Fmaj7
And turns to stone

C......Fmaj7
It shatters with the touch

C................Fmaj7
Feel the air, breathe it in


Turn the corner, take the bend
Give or take the bend
It's a spiralling cork-screw path towards you
It's a sinking, twisted path from me to you


Fmaj7............Em.....................Dm...C
For a second I saw you so clearly (clearly)

Fmaj7............Em.....................Dm...C
For a moment I knew you so dearly (dearly)

Fmaj7............Em.....................Dm...C
I looked into your eyes and into your mind

Fmaj7............Em.....................Dm...C
You were laughing like a statue come to life

The subtle piano raindrops
The creaking of the buildings and their cellos
The wind was our violin
The sky was a symphonic mural of stars
Hiding behind perfectly placed clouds
Because everything is the way it is
And everything is perfect in their imperfections
And everything is placed the best
And it is now, and it is here
And tomorrow is another now
Waiting to happen

The roar of an action silences all the words
The cry of an accomplishment
Drowns the whimper of ten thousand words
And we live in our actions and our reactions
And we live in our actions and our reactions