Earth

                A             
I don't want to live with this 
             E
feeling any longer than I have to
    D                           A
But also I don't want you to be gone
     Bm
So I talk about you all the time
                   A
Including the last day you were 
alive
                Bm
And I hang your pictures around my 
house
          A
For me to surprise myself with and 
cry


[Verse 2]
     F#5                A5        
Everybody that used to know us 
    F#5
seems concerned
            A5
But if they knew that when you enter
 my mind
    B5                   
I'm full of the love that 
                      A5
illuminated our house for all those 
years
And made this dancing child who 
      B5
tears through the days
With a brilliance you would have 
A5
deepened and sang along with
           F#5                 A5
But you're sleeping out in the yard 
now
          B5
What am I saying?
                     A5
No one is sleeping


[Verse 3]
                           B5
You don't even have a dead body 
anymore

It was taken away
  A5
I went and wrote a check
And got a cardboard box full of your
 B5
 ashes

And a little plastic bag with your 
necklace
      A5
And I drove back home truly alone


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[Verse 4]
                 A            
I guess I didn't bury you deep 
 E
enough
                       D           
When I poured out your ashes 
                  A
beneath the three witch hazels
         Bm                        
That you planted in the yard a few 
               A
years ago in a triangle for us
                 Bm
Where me and the kid were rolling in
 the grass the other day
          A
And I saw actual chunks of your 
bones


[Verse 5]
             F#5           A5
Bleached and weathered, unerasable
You're still out there in the spring
 F#5
 upheaving
       A5
Coming out of the ground into air
              B5
Is that exact fragment your finger
That once caressed me not that long 
A5
ago?

I still can feel it
            B5
And is that other shard a piece of 
your skull
          A5                       
That once contained the wild brain 
                           F#5
that used to overflow with loving?
     A5
Undiscovered and gone
             F#5                 
And now just shrapnel remains:
F#5 G#5 A5 B5

A
Earth

F#5  A5  F#5  A5  F#5  A5

[Verse 6]
F#5
Another place I poured your ashes 
out
                           A5
Was on a chair on top of a mountain 
pointed at the sunset
  F#5
I went back there last week after a 
year has passed
                A5
And noticed the chunks of your bones
 that haven't been blown away
         F#5
Are indistinguishable from the other
 pieces of animal bones
A5
Brought there by coyotes, vultures, 
and gods
F#5                               
  Against my will I felt a little 
                       A5
bit of solace creeping in

But I laid there on the moss
F#5
Compost and memory:
A5
  There's nothing else

F#5  A5

[Bridge]
F#5
  I can hear Wolves in the Throne 
Room singing:
        A5
"I will lay down my bones among the 
rocks and roots"

F#5  A5

[Verse 7]
   F#5
At night I sit and picture myself 
curled up beneath
            A5
Ten feet of water at the bottom of 
the lake
           F#5
I imagined trout bumping against me 
in the low diminished light
           A5
Holding my breath trying to be a 
boulder
F#5                     A5
Eroding, to join you in re-mingling 
with a background
   F#5
Of churned muck coalescing in the 
dark
       A5
But to get ground back down to 
matter only
F#5                   A5
Eternal and dumb becoming not a 
thing
F#5           F#5 G#5 A5 B5
Abdicating...
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