Songwriter: Mary Chapin Carpenter, 2016
From Joan Baez' album "Whistle Down The Wind", 2017
Capo II
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I remember driving down the rutted roads late at night
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Following the summer moon bright as any pair of headlights
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I felt the air on my face and the night pressed inside my palm
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A moment captured in a place this memory stays strong
[Chorus]
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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The things that we are made of
[Verse 2]
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And I remember feeling I'm alive and in no need of saviours
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If the past's another country I'm at the border with my papers
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Where is your heart if not inside you where is home or are you lost
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Where is love if not beside you I had no answers but they let me cross
[Chorus]
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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The things that we are made of
[Bridge]
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Like the silence of my shadow when the twilight world is calling
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The loneliness that knows me by the cadence of my walking
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And the scar upon my elbow and the sound of my own breathing
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My reflection in a window and the way I'm always leaving
[Chorus Melody, humming]
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[Verse 3]
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And I remember wishing for some other life than this one I've claimed
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How often I have been convinced how eagerly I'd make that trade
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Then all at once I see your face and the summer night and the open door
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Dimmer now but not erased and I know what these are for
[Chorus]
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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Oh my darling oh my love
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The things that we are made of
[Outro]
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