INTRO:

VERSE:
I swear I heard a bird calling high in the chestnut trees
The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn’t see
No matter where I stood I couldn’t see beak or wing
Just burning, blinding leaves, still and silent trees

CHORUS:
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?

VERSE:
When that cement truck, the mixer turning slow
Drove right past me dripping in the road
That swollen body spinn[G/B]ing in circles
I stopped and watched it roll, roll and groan

CHORUS:
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?

VERSE:
When I swam alone that night, late summer dusk
The air so warm and still, the water wide and dark
Something brushed against me, I splashed and k[G/B]icked in fright
Such cold hands upon me, underwater vines

CHORUS:
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?
Were you with me then my friend?
Are you with me now?

OUTRO:
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[Verse 1]

Oh, you little sparrows on a swaying branch
Singing to the cars up on the overpass

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[Chorus 1]

When you fly away from here
Take me with you when you go

[Solo 1]

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[Bridge 1]

A herd of antelope, a sea of redwood trees
Schools of shining fish and a thousand buzzing bees

[Verse 2]

Over winter parking lots the passing geese
Rising in the air little dandelion seeds

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[Chorus 2]

When you fly away from here
Please don’t leave me when you go

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[Bridge 2]

If I were Jonah tossed into the raging sea
I would not fear the whale that came to swallow me

[Solo 2]

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[Verse 3]

Oh, you paper cups rolling down the windy street
Oh, you little ants winding through the tangled weeds

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[Chorus 3]

Where you’re going I don’t care
Take me with you when you go

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Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds
An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth

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Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves
The flicker of a strange light far out across the sea

Love is like a black fly buzzing in the sun
Circling and landing, dancing like it’s drunk

[Fill 1]

All around the red apples scattered on the lawn
Fallen in the fury of last night’s thunderstorm

Love is like the hole torn right through the roof
When that old sugar pine came crashing down last night

[Fill 1]

And above the broken beams and the shattered ceiling tiles
You can see starlight for the very first time

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[Synth arr. for guitar]

[Fill 1]

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[Synth arr. for guitar] [FADE—-]