The National Lights - Swimming in the Swamp

Capo I


F...Am...F...Am


F
There was dirt in your mouth

...................................Am
On the day we put you down

....................................G
There was blood on your teeth

...........................................Am
Like you were born to the ground


I held your head
As water filled your mouth
When the branches scratched your eyes
When the land began to flood

F...............C......................Am
This is my body dear that I've kept inside you

........................G
And that you'll keep if you want to
Here is what's left of what I have taken from yours
Tonight the bells will cry
This doesn't scare you
It could if you want to
We can run through the yard
We can swim out in the swamp

I cleaned your face
And covered you in stones
There was so much water there
A hundred miles to make your own
A butcher's boy
Can make his song your tomb
The prettiest girls
Should always plan theirs for two

This is my body dear that I've kept inside you
And that you'll keep if you want to
Here is what's left of what I have taken from yours
Tonight the bells will cry
This doesn't scare you
It could if you want to
We can run through the yard
We can swim out in the swamp

The National Lights - Buried Treasure

Capo IV

D...Em..G

D....................................................A
Somewhere there's a heart in your body

..............................Em............G......................D
You hide it well, but sooner or later, babe, I'll get to it

D.........................................A
Girl, that face just keeps on smiling

.....................Em.................G
No, love don't have to be so lonely

.........D......................A
But it has to hurt this bad


...............D.....................A
And we'll wait til dark to dig a hole outside

Em..................G
Big enough for you to fit inside

D..............................A
All those hearts you broke, still beating

Em...................G
This is helping, honey, this is healing

There was a time when your body kept on beating
Oh, you're good for now
I point to buried treasure in the shoreline
Girl, we'll make the most of what you've got
Until the day when we can find me some more

We'll wait til dark to dig that hole outside
Big enough for you to fit inside
All those hearts you broke, still beating
This is helping, honey, this is feeling

The National Lights - Midwest Town

Capo I

C
I'm sick on loving you

..................................F
It's a hurtful kind of loving

...............................Dm
The devil's in your eyes

.........................................G
Is that what makes you smile?

And I'm falling for your trick
I really can't get enough of it
But I'm too drunk to dance
So, I take you down

F
Look at what we've become

....C..........................C/B........Am
A black heart and a loaded gun

.........F.........................................................G..................C
But I guess that's part of growing up in a midwest town

The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear

Capo I

C
You’re looking to me in a fight

.............................Fmaj7
But I’m not your answer

..........C
I was eating your body and bones

..............Fmaj7
Well, we both were

..C
I buried my love in the fire

............................Fmaj7
And that got me laughing

................................D
And that got me to thinking

....G...............C
Nobody goes home

Saving your love for the pyres
The dead will walk, dear
If you will it hard enough
Then we all will
Then, when your legs were still young
You begged me to have you
Now I’m going to keep you
Nobody goes home

The National Lights - O, Ohio

Capo I

F...............................C
Make your business known

...........F................................Am..................G
There ain't no house with no name on the front porch

.....F.............................C
no more, we've took it down

........G....................F
Just left, life is one alone

You, your mother's born
But a girl can't stay a girl for too long
What would you want with me now?
So far you've done just fine on your own

From Ohio
Oh, we'll pull in 80 East toward the ocean
Now home is long and gone

Am.....................................G..................................Am
Dead to us now, like those bones in the backyard

The National Lights - Water is Wide

Capo II

E............................F#m
Your heart's in the wrong place

A.......................E
Say it with your mouth

E..................................F#m
I pull my guns from the desert, just in case

A...............................E
you ever came back around

Put your clothes in the water and lay down at your side
You keep real still and quiet
You can make it through the night

C#m..B..A..E

It ain't no sin to shed your skin
Go dancing in your bones
The water's deep and your body's sweet
With lungs, the way to go

Take your face to the river
Down where the water is wide
And if you ask real nice-like
I just might save your life

The National Lights - River Bed

Capo II

A........................................
There’s a hole in the river

..............................................E
Where they put your body down

D...................................
It flooded there for weeks

........A.........................E
and wet the cursed ground

I see you waving, I see your ghost around
You look like you’re happy
I’m the one who looks drowned

D........................
It’s not a big thing

E.............................................A
But babe this ain’t a big town

D.......................
It’s no big thing

E....................................A
But this ain’t a big town

I’ll hold in my bones
That sweet, little heart of yours
It’s not big enough to beat for two anymore
I’ll grow for us both
Since you won’t be growing old
I love you like I told you.

It’s not a big thing
But babe this ain’t a big town
It’s no big thing
But this ain’t a big town