I knew a guy, I thought he was my first love
But he had to decide between me and the one before
And she stacked it all up, like a house of cards
Said, if he didn’t come back, he’d find her flattened on the floor
And though I went and lived in my own Hell
Thought that I could die as well
I let him go where he thought he had to go

CHORUS:
‘Cause I never took

Heavy words for granted
And I never took

The undeserved advantage
No, I never took the easy way
So why don’t you take it a little easy on me now

Out on the road, I had so many questions
That I thought I could explode just for some attention
Like an acolyte, I saw the flames of towering tapers
Almost proselytised by those gleaming piles of papers
Yeah, I watched the power huddles
And their coats draped over puddles
And their, ?Trust me, baby, I’m the one you need.?

CHORUS:
But I never took

Heavy words for granted
And I never took

The undeserved advantage
No, I never took the easy way
So why don’t you take it a little easy on me now

BRIDGE:
We don’t want to be the ones who lie and cheat and slander
So we hold each other up to the higher standard
But I’ll tell you what, I never try to make it hard
‘Cause when you’re hard just to be hard
The only thing that’s hard is you

So here’s what I took, I kept the wine and laughter
Until every path just grew up and ever after
Through the peaks and twisty canyons, I made many great companions
Best of all, is the one who loves me like you do

CHORUS:
But I never took

Heavy words for granted
And I never took

The undeserved advantage
No, I never took the easy way
So why don’t you take it a little easy on me now

CHORUS:
‘Cause I never took

Heavy words for granted
And it’s much too late
To even want the shortcut
Yeah, I never took the easy way
So why don’t you take it a little easy on me now
Because we know that easy’s never easy anyhow

INTRO: F G C (2x)

Well, the mountain was so beautiful
That this guy built a mall and a pizza shack
Yeah, he built an ugly city because
He wanted the mountain to love him back

CHORUS:
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love
When you know that you won’t get your heart in that stone
When you drop your tools and you stand alone
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love

Well, when my love felt like another addiction
I held my breath and I packed my bags
And I went to the land of the monastery
And the sunshine children and the prayer flags

CHORUS:
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love
When you feel your soul go beyond your skin
When you know that’s the way that it’s always been
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love

Well, I climbed a mountain and I thought about attachment
And I thought about the Buddhist King
He said, ‘You can keep your superpower
It just short circuits my country’

CHORUS:
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love
When you question what your desire is for
When you don’t just figure that you just want more
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love

INSTRUMENTAL: F G C (4x)

Well, I love the way the world is your garden
And you plant your seeds and you let ‘em grow
And you dig things out of the ground just like
You take what comes, but you never know

And the mountain is so beautiful
And we still know if we’re any good at all
And we give our love when we think we still need it
Yeah, we give and give and fall and fall

CHORUS:
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love
When the giving is all that you ever get back
Oh, how long do you love like that
Can you tell me, oh, how to love
Hey, what do you love more than love
Hey, what do you love more than love

OUTRO:
Hey, hey, hey(hey, hey, hey)
Hey, hey (hey, hey, hey)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

INTRO: C F G C

Time it was I had a dream
You’re the dream come true
If I had the world to give
I’d give it all to you

I’ll take you to the mountains
I will take you to the sea
I’ll show you how this life became
A miracle to me

CHORUS:
You’ll fly away
But take my hand until that day
So when they ask how far love goes
When my job’s done you’ll be the one who knows

All the things you treasure most
Will be the hardest won
I will watch you struggle long
Before the answers come

But I won’t make it harder
I’ll be there to cheer you on
I’ll shine the light that guides you down
The road you’re walking on

CHORUS:
You’ll fly away
But take my hand until that day
So when they ask how far love goes
When my job’s done you’ll be the one who knows

Before the mountains call to you
Before you leave this home
I want to teach your heart to trust
As I will teach my own

But sometimes I will ask the moon
Where it shined upon you last
And shake my head and laugh and say
It all went by so fast

CHORUS:
You’ll fly away
But take my hand until that day
So when they ask how far love goes
When my job’s done you’ll be the one who knows

INTRO: F Dm7 Dm G C

When I went to your town on the wide open shore
Oh, I must confess, I was drawn, I was drawn to the ocean
I thought it spoke to me, it said,
“Look at us, we’re not churches, not schools,
Not skating ponds, swimming pools,
And we have lost people, haven’t we though?”

Oh, that’s what the ocean can know of a body
And that’s when I came back to town
This town is a song about you
You don’t know how lucky you are
You don’t know how much I adore you
You are the welcoming back from the ocean

I went back to the ocean today
With my books and my papers, I went to the rocks by the ocean
But the weather changed quickly
Oh, the ocean said, “What are you trying to find,
I don’t care, I’m not kind, I have bludgeoned your sailors,
I’ve spat out their keepsakes”

Oh, it’s ashes to ashes, but always the ocean
But the ocean can’t come to this town
This town is a song about you
You don’t know how lucky you are
You don’t know how much I adore you
You are the welcoming back from the ocean

INTERLUDE: F G Am F Dm G C
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la (3x) la

And the ones that can know you so well
Are the ones that can swallow you whole
I have a good and I have an evil
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing
You are the welcoming back from the ocean

I didn’t go back today
I wanted to show you that I was more land than water
I went to pick flowers
I brought them to you, look at me, look at them
With their salt up the stem, but you frowned
When I smiled and I tried to arrange them

You said, “Let me tell you the song of this town”
You said, “Everything closes at five.
After that, well, you just got the bars.”
“You don’t know how precious you are
Walking around with your little shoes dangling
I am the one who lives with the ocean.
“It’s where we came from, you know.”
“And sometimes I just want to go back.
After a day, we’ll drink ‘til we’re drowning
Walk to the ocean, wade in with our work-boots
Wade in our work-boots, try to finish the job.”

“You don’t know how precious you are
I am the one who lives with the ocean
You don’t know how, I am the one
You don’t know how, I am the one”

INTERLUDE: (## repeat about 15x – fade to end ##)
La la lee la la, le la la le la la la

INTRO: C

It’s a cold, cold time
It’s a cold, cold time
And it makes me wonder
If I’ll ever forget
How cold I
How cold I and the world can be

And the line gets drawn
And we draw the line
And we say it’s only
The business of things
How can it be?
How can it be, when it’s you and me?

BRIDGE:

And I can’t live in the past
Hard-shelled and moving fast
Change, it’s the race car of time

Everyone nods along
I have done nothing wrong
And it feels like a crime

INSTRUMENTAL: C Em Am F G Em Am F G Am F G Em Am F

And it’s a bright new day
It’s a bright new day
And the crazy thing is
That I wish my old friend
Would say that it’s fine
Say I’ll be fine in a cold, cold time

I walked a spiralling village one night
Drawn by the word of a bell or a light
Out on the flats, saw it rose to a spire
All becomes clear as the tide falls away

Parent and child and an ocean between
One is not heard and the other not seen
Too many bottles, but each had a message inside
All becomes clear as the tide falls away
All becomes clear as the tide falls away

INTERLUDE: Am Am7 F Em G F

Lucky we are when the stars leave us singing
A hymn or a dirge when the surge of the ocean is gone
Is gone

INTERLUDE: Am Am7 Am F

And the old woman just stares at her hands
So many heroes have crumbled to sand
All those cathedrals were merely by men
All becomes clear as the tide falls away
All becomes clear as the tide falls away
All falls away

OUTRO: Am Am7 Am F

Setting out upon the waves in darkness and upheaval
I was told that I alone would not know good and evil
Oh oh, but in time
But oh oh, in time
It came to me
That as our ship would fall and rise
I could turn and lift my eyes
To the light
A distant light
And there will all-always be
The light and the sea
The roiling sea, the light and me

And as the days went by, I turned my wheel towards the thunder
Taking on a challenge, that I knew could take me under
Oh oh, and it took me down
And oh oh, it took me down
And it came to me
As I cursed the stem and sail
And called it fate that I should fail
There is a light
There is a light
And there will all-always be
The light and the sea
The roiling sea, the light and me

And it all___ comes down
Down to me
To feel the presence of my soul
Amidst the torrents and the cold
Of the sea
And there will all-always be
The light and the sea
The roiling sea, the light and me

OUTRO: Em C G Em C
The light and me

INTRO: G Bm Em C

In my life on Earth
The things I have invented, have invented me
I’ve found my industry
I am not alone
I’ve fashioned friends from precious scrps
They hold the light, they bend to serve me
Joking that they don’t deserve me
After days of craft and care
I lift a sword and slice the air
Such has been my time upon
This Earth
This Earth

When my wife returns
More beautiful than when she left the night before
I show her things I made
A filigree of ferns
Diamond snowflakes, tears of gold
She murmurs praise, a small caress
I smile to see her happiness
Silver webs with sanded grain
That catch and hold real drops of rain
Such has been my toil upon
This Earth
This Earth

Key Change

BRIDGE:
When I’m feeling vexed I go upstairs and bury something deep
Then stand back and push a button
From a distance watch the earth explode___
This Earth

I love this land of mortal men
They wake to know the fire again
The things we make, the things we feel
Armour plates and molten steel
All of these inventions of
The Earth
This Earth

INTRO: G

And you know the light is fading all too soon
You’re just two umbrellas one late afternoon
You don’t know the next thing you will say
This is your favourite kind of day
It has no walls
The beauty of the rain
Is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls

And there’s nothing wrong, but there is something more
And sometimes you wonder what you love her for
She says you’ve known her deepest fears
‘Cause she’s shown you a box of stained-glass tears
It can’t be all
The truth about the rain
Is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls

BRIDGE:
But when she gave you more to find
You let her think she’d lost her mind
And that’s all on you
Feeling helpless if she asked for help
Or scared you’d have to change yourself

And you can’t deny this room will keep you warm
You can look out of your window at the storm
But you watch the phone and hope it rings
You’ll take her any way she sings
Or how she calls
The beauty of the rain
Is how it falls, how it falls, how it falls
How it falls, how it falls, how it falls

INTRO: F C Em Am F G

If you’re gonna get your heart broke, you better do it just right
It’s gotta be raining and you gotta move your stuff that night
And the only friend you can reach, isn’t a good friend at all
And you know when he says, ?Now who dumped who’
That you never should have made that call

I had blessings
There’s nobody there, there’s nobody home
Yeah, the blessings
At the moment I was most alone and aimless as a fulltime fool
The joke was on me
I got all those birds flying off of that tree
That’s a blessing

And the blessings were like poets that we never find time to know
But when time stopped, I found the place where the poets go
And they said, ?Here have some coffee, it’s straight black and very old?
And they gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold

I had blessings
A moment of peace even when the night ends
Yeah, blessings
Can we meet? Can we meet again at the crossroads of disaster
And the imperfect smile
With the angel in the streetlamp that blinks on as I walk on a mile
The blessings

And the best ones were the ones I got to keep as I grew strong
And the days that opened up until my whole life could belong
It’s like getting the answers, when I don’t need them anymore
I’m finding the pictures, and I finally know what I kept them for
I remember, I can see them
See them smiling, see them stuck
See them try, I wish them luck
And all the blessings

I was fast asleep at three in the morning, when I got the payphone call
And she said, ?Did I wake you up?, I said, ?Hey, no, not at all?
And she said, ?I got this suitcase and I don’t know what to pack?
And I said, ?You can take anything you want,
Just wait and see, it’s not a release, it’s not a reward
It’s the blessings,
It’s the gift of what you notice more,?
And I walked out and I watched her kick the big pile of the night
And we sat down and we waited for that strange and empty light
Yeah, the blessings, aah, aah, aah

See them smiling, see them stuck, see them try, I wish them luck
And all the blessings