Biography:
The Handsome Family is an alternative country and americana band, formed in Chicago, Illinois, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The band was formed in 1993 by husband-and-wife duo Brett Sparks (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Rennie Sparks (bass, banjo, vocals), along with drummer Mike Werner. The band would later revolve around Rennie, who writes the lyrics, and Brett, who writes the music. Guest musicians complete the band line-up for recordings and live work.
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Other songs:
- 24 Hour Store
- Bottomless Hole
- Far From Any Road
- Far From Any Road (true Detective Theme)
- Lizard
- My Sister's Tiny Hands
- So Much Wine
- The Woman Downstairs
- Weightless Again
- 1 Country Song
- 3
- A Beautiful Thing
- A Dark Eye
- A Shadow Underneath
- A Thousand Diamond Rings
- After We Shot The Grizzly
- All The Time In Airports
- All The Tvs In Town
- Amelia Earhart Vs The Dancing Bear
- Arlene
- Back In My Day
- Beautiful William
- Big Bad Wolf
- Birds You Cannot See
- Bowling Alley Bar
- Bury Me Here
- Caterpillars
- Cathedrals
- Claire Said
- Cold Cold Cold
- Darling My Darling
- Dont Be Scared
- Down In The Ground
- Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs
- Drinking Beer On The Roof
- Drunk By Noon
- Dry Bones
- Eels
- Emily Shore 1819
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Fallen Peaches
- Far From Any Road True Detective Theme
- Flies
- Frogs
- Gail With The Golden Hair
- Gentlemen
- Giant Ant
- Giant Of Illinois
- Glow Worm
- Gold
- Grandmother Waits For You
- Gravity
- Green Willow Valley
- Gulls
- Happy Harvest
- Heres Hopin
- Honey Moon
- Hunter Green
- I Fell
- I Know You Are There
- In The Air
- June Bugs
- King Of Dust
- Lake Geneva
- Last Night I Went Out Walking
- Lie Down
- Linger Let Me Linger
- Love Is Like
- Moving Furniture Around
- My Beautiful Bride
- My Friend
- My Ghost
- My Sisters Tiny Hands
- No One Fell Asleep Alone
- Octopus
- One Way Up
- Our Blue Sky
- Owls
- Passenger Pigeons
- Peace In The Valley Once Again
- Pony
- Poor Poor Lenore
- She Awoke With A Jerk
- Sleepy
- Snowball
- Somewhere Else To Be
- Spider
- Stalled
- Teslas Hotel Room
- The Bottomless Hole
- The Dutch Boy
- The Forgotten Lake
- The House Carpenter
- The King Who Wouldnt Smile
- The Last
- The Loneliness Of Magnets
- The Lost Soul
- The Petrified Forest
- The Red Door
- The Red Leaf Forest
- The Sad Milkman
- The Sea Rose
- The Silver Light
- The Snow White Diner
- The Song Of 100 Toads
- The Song Of A Hundred Toads
- The White Dog
- The Winding Corn Maze
- There Is A Sound
- These Golden Jewels
- Tin Foil
- Tiny Tina
- Trail Of Time
- Underneath The Falls
- Unseen
- Up Falling Rock Hill
- Water Into Wine
- When It Rains
- When You Whispered
- Where The Birch Trees Lean
- White Lights
- Whitehaven
- Wild Wood
- Wildebeest
- Winnebago Skeletons
- Woman Downstairs
- Woodpecker
- Your Great Journey
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Honey Moon (2009 album)
by The Handsome Family
Chords arranged and compiled by Latereducator
Track listing
1. "Linger, Let Me Linger" - 3:34
2. "Little Sparrows" - 3:08
3. "My Friend" - 4:56
4. "When You Whispered" - 3:11
5. "The Loneliness of Magnets" - 3:43
6. "June Bugs" - 3:38
7. "A Thousand Diamond Rings" - 3:40
8. "Love Is Like" - 3:21
9. "The Petrified Forest" - 4:11
10. "Wild Wood" - 3:10
11. "Darling, My Darling" - 3:39
12. "The Winding Corn Maze" - 4:35
13. "The Red Leaf Forest" - 3:25 [Bonus Track]
TRACK 1 - LINGER, LET ME LINGER
[Intro]
C
[Verse]
C D7
Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence
Dm Fm G
Like the spider spins its rings between the trees
Dm G#m G C
And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze
[Verse]
C D7
I am the puddles in the street
Dm Fm G
waiting for your falling leaves
C D7
Twine your vines around me, drop your branches in my path
[Chorus]
Dm Fm G
Linger, let me linger
[Interlude]
Fm G Fm G Fm G C
[Bridge]
F Fm C
Hearts drawn on a dusty window pane,
Dm G
a love note lying in the road
F Fm C
A car circling round a darkened street,
Dm G
a woman crying on the phone
[Verse]
C D7
We are like the crickets in the spring,
Dm Fm G
calling out from under stones
C D7
Twine your vines around me, drop your branches in my path
[Chorus]
Dm Fm G
Linger, let me linger
[Outro]
C D7 Dm Fm G x2
Fm G (x5)
C
TRACK 2 - LITTLE SPARROWS
[Intro]
G C G Em C G
[Verse]
G C G
Oh, you little sparrows on a swaying branch
Em C G
Singing to the cars up on the overpass
[Chorus]
G Bm C G
When you fly away from here
G Am C G
Take me with you when you go
[Interlude]
G C G Em C G
G Bm C G Am C G
[Bridge]
D C G
A herd of antelope, a sea of redwood trees
Am D D7
Schools of shining fish and a thousand buzzing bees
[Verse]
G C G
Over winter parking lots the passing geese
Em C G
Rising in the air little dandelion seeds
[Chorus]
G Bm C G
When you fly away from here
G Am C G
Please don't leave me when you go
[Bridge]
D C G
If I were Jonah tossed into the raging sea
Am D D7
I would not fear the whale that came to swallow me
[Interlude]
G C G Em C G
G Bm C G Am C G
[Verse]
G C G
Oh, you paper cups rolling down the windy street
Em C G
Oh, you little ants winding through the tangled weeds
[Chorus]
G Bm C G
Where you're going I don't care,
G Am C G
Take me with you when you go
[Outro]
G Bm C G D C G
TRACK 3 - MY FRIEND
[Intro]
F Fm C
[Verse]
C G F C
I swear I heard a bird calling high in the chestnut trees
G F C
The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn’t see
G F C
No matter where I stood I couldn’t see beak or wing
G F C
Just burning, blinding leaves, still and silent trees
[Chorus]
C E
Were you with me then my friend?
F C
Are you with me now?
E
Were you with me then my friend?
F Fm C
Are you with me now?
[Verse]
C G F C
When that cement truck, the mixer turning slow
G F C
Drove right past me dripping in the road
F C G/B Am
That swollen body spinning in circles
Dm Am F C
I stopped and watched it roll, roll and groan
[Chorus]
C E
Were you with me then my friend?
F C
Are you with me now?
E
Were you with me then my friend?
F Fm C
Are you with me now?
[Verse]
C G F C
When I swam alone that night, late summer dusk
G F C
The air so warm and still, the water wide and dark
F C G/B Am
Something brushed against me, I splashed and kicked in fright
Dm Am F C G
Such cold hands upon me, underwater vines
[Chorus]
C E
Were you with me then my friend?
F C
Are you with me now?
E
Were you with me then my friend?
F Fm
Are you with me now?
[Outro]
C E F Fm x5
TRACK 4 - WHEN YOU WHISPERED
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
D A
Up on the drawbridge when we stood in the wind
E D A
My car left running, the doors wide open
D A
The wind spread ripples along the river waves
E D A
Your hands in my hair as the drawbridge swayed
[Chorus]
E
You leaned in closer as the sun fell away
D A
A plastic bag trembled caught in the waves
E D A
When you whispered what you whispered in my ear
[Verse]
D A
The breeze at the shoreline bent down the rushes
E D A
The sparrows cried out from the waving willows
D A
And even the minnows in the muddy shallows
E D A
Even the frogs calling from the shadows
[Chorus]
E
Even the wind leaned in to listen
D A
When you leaned in closer, your hands in my hair
E D A
When you whispered what you whispered in my ear
E D A
When you whispered what you whispered in my ear
TRACK 5 - THE LONELINESS OF MAGNETS
Less common chord phrasings used in the intro/ends of verses:
Gb13: 321003
G6: 322003
G7: 323003
[Intro]
G C C7 G A7 Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
[Verse]
C C7 G A7
My heart is a beating compass pointing to the pole
Am D7 G
The great expanse of stillness, the true magnetic north
C C7 G A7
I know the sky blue longing of a cloud of spiraling birds
Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
All turning in an instant, a perfect spinning whirl
[Chorus]
G C G Am C D7
I feel the loneliness of magnets and the tides across the sea
G C G Am C G
I am the dark valley calling to the trembling mountain peak
[Interlude]
C C7 G A7 Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
[Verse]
C C7 G A7
Wherever you are tonight as you close your eyes to sleep
Am D7 G
Think of me as you drift away to the mist of silver dreams
C C7 G A7
And I will find you in the darkness where water turns to steam
Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
Your pull upon my heart could steer ten thousand wings
[Chorus]
G C G Am C D7
I feel the loneliness of magnets and trembling mountain peaks
G C G Am C G
I call you from dark valleys and I hear you echoing
[Outro]
C C7 G A7 Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
C C7 G A7 Am D7 G
G
TRACK 6 - JUNE BUGS
[Intro]
A D A E A
[Verse]
D A E F#m
I want to kiss you in thickets and dripping wet glades
D A E F#m
As the stars rub against the dark skin of space
D A E F#m
Every planet is turning and calling your name
E E7
For hundreds of miles the trees bend your way
[Chorus]
A D
Because the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are back in the yard
[Interlude]
D A E A
[Verse]
D A E F#m
I want to kiss you in green groves and echoing caves
D A E F#m
I want to fall through the treetops and drift across lakes
E E7
The wind's in the oak trees, it's been raining for days
[Chorus]
A D
Because the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are crawling the yard
[Interlude]
D A E F#m D A E F#m D A E F#m E E7
[Chorus]
A D
Yes, the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are back in the yard
[Interlude]
D A E A
[Verse]
D A E F#m
Hawk moths are sipping the night-blooming rose
D A E F#m
A honey as sweet as the moon's sugar glow
D A E F#m
The leaves of the apple tree whispering low
E E7
The stars are on fire, the nightingales moan
[Chorus]
A D
Because the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are crawling the yard
[Outro]
D A E A
TRACK 7 - A THOUSAND DIAMOND RINGS
[Intro]
D G A G D
[Verse]
D G
A smashed windshield, the dust on a pickup truck
A G D
Shine with silver secrets in the Albuquerque sun
D G
The light makes jewels of pawn shops and drive-thru banks
A G D
Wrinkled faces staring out the windows of the laundromat
[Chorus]
Bm F#m
And even the broken glass scattered in the street
A E
Shines like a thousand diamond rings
[Interlude]
Bm A Em G A D
[Verse]
D G
Neon signs above the old motels,
A G D
warehouse stores and strip malls, houses sprawled across the hills
D G
The sunset's a bird with wings made out of fire
A G D
Parking lots turn to gold as it glides across the sky
D G
And every night from 6:00 to 6:05
A G D
The desert dirt shimmers like a sea of watermelon light
[Chorus]
Bm F#m
Even the broken glass shattered in the street
A E
Shines like a thousand diamond rings
[Outro]
Bm A Em G A Bm x2
Bm A Em G A D
TRACK 8 - LOVE IS LIKE
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
A G#m G F#
Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds
F E
An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth
A F A F
Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves
A F A F A
The flicker of a strange light far out across the sea
[Verse]
A G#m G F#
Love is like a black fly buzzing in the sun
F E
Circling and landing, dancing like it's drunk
A F A F
All around the red apples scattered on the lawn
A F A F A
Fallen in the fury of last night's thunderstorm
[Verse]
A G#m G F#
Love is like the hole torn right through the roof
F E
When that old sugar pine came crashing down last night
A F A F
And above the broken beams and the shattered ceiling tiles
A F A F
You can see starlight for the very first time
[Instrumental]
A G#m G F# F E
A F A F
TRACK 9 - THE PETRIFIED FOREST
[Intro]
D
[Verse]
G F#m
When we were together
Bm Bm/A G
I lay in your river
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
As the fish swam through my hands
G F#m
Raindrops and roses
Bm Bm/A G
fell from the heavens
G A D Dsus4 D
Just to brush against your skin
G F#m
And a strand of your hair
Bm Bm/A G
lost to the wind
G A D Dsus4 D
Sent doves wheeling through the air
[Chorus]
G A D Dsus4 D
But now I'm alone in the petrified forest
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
Stumbling on rocks in the dark
G A D Dsus4 D
But I remember, I still remember
G A D Dsus4 D
When you held me in your beautiful arms
[Interlude]
G F#m Bm Bm/A G A Bm Bm/A Bm
[Verse]
Bm G F#m
When you left me alone
Bm Bm/A G
the sky turned to stone
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
And my legs rolled into the sea
G F#m
Why did you go?
Bm Bm/A G
The sea was so cold
G A D Dsus4 D
My arms blew off in the breeze
G F#m
I search for your footprints,
Bm Bm/A G
the scent of roses
G A D Dsus4 D
As the wind weeps over the sea
[Chorus]
G A D Dsus4 D
But now I'm alone in the petrified forest
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
Stumbling on rocks in the dark
G A D Dsus4 D
And I remember, I'll always remember
G A Bm
When you held me in your beautiful arms
[Outro]
Bm Bm/A Bm Bm/A Bm Bm/A Bm
TRACK 10 - WILD WOOD
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
A E A
Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog
D A
Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud
D A
Give me cold, cold rain, a cloud of stinging bugs
E A
Deadly nightshade, poison oak, give me the wild, wild wood
[Chorus]
E D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
Bm D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
[Verse]
A E A
We can dress in skins, wrap our feet in bark
D A
And you can growl at me or hit me with a rock
D A
When you want to say, "I love you," in the dark
E A
And I will bark like a dog in your arms
[Chorus]
E D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
Bm D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
[Interlude]
A E A D A D A E A
[Verse]
A E A
We can make a god out of sticks and bones
D A
Or we can pray to the trees or pray to the sun
D A
And our eyes will shine when we start to sing
E A
With the hungry wolves outside our freezing cave
[Chorus]
E D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
Bm D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
[Outro]
A
TRACK 11 - DARLING, MY DARLING
[Intro]
G G/B G G/B
[Verse]
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, look at my waving antennae
Am C G
My barbed jaw and hard red pincers,
Em G C
the stripes running down my spine
Em G Am C G
Darling, my darling, watch me fly up in spirals
Em G C
Admire the horns 'neath my eyes,
G
the fan of my beautiful wings
[Chorus]
Am C G
I'll give you everything
[Interlude]
Em G Am C G Em G C G
[Verse]
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, I bow my leg like a cello
Am C G
I perch on branches and bellow,
Am C G
while dreaming only of thee
[Chorus]
Am C G
I'll give you everything
[Verse]
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, down in the dew-dropped rushes
Em G C
I beat my head in the darkness
G
and build a fortress of tunnels
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, your snapping fangs don't scare me
Am C G
I'll leap on your spine and love you
Am C G
till you gnaw me down to my wings
[Chorus]
Am C G
I'll give you everything
Am C G
I'll give you everything
[Outro]
D
Oh my darling
G
Oh my darling
TRACK 12 - THE WINDING CORN MAZE
[Intro]
G Cm G Cm Am C Am C Cm
[Verse]
G Cm
I came to a field of green
G Cm
where the corn stalks grew so tall
Am C
The sunlight could not pierce
Am C Cm
to the winding path below
G Cm
Round and round I went
G Cm
under those waving stems
Am C
I followed the shadowed path
Am C Cm
marked so faintly with her step
[Chorus]
Am C
Down in the winding corn maze
Am Cm G
where green stalks shiver in the wind
[Interlude]
G Cm G Cm Am C Am C Cm x2
[Chorus]
Am C
Down in the winding corn maze
Am Cm G
where green stalks shiver in the wind
[Verse]
G Cm
Such spirals spread for miles
G Cm
through the bending leaves
Am C
There in a swarm of bees
Am C Cm
I knelt down at her feet
G Cm
And she took me to her arms
G Cm
in that cloud of honey bees
Am C
Whirring in their whirling
Am C Cm
as they rose on golden wings
[Chorus]
Am C
Down in the winding corn maze
Am Cm G
where green stalks shiver in the wind
[Outro]
G
G Cm x6
TRACK 13 [BONUS TRACK] - THE RED LEAF FOREST
[Intro]
G D G
[Verse]
G D G
Deep in the red leaf forest
C G
A hunter with his crossbow
C G
Came upon the secret pool
Am D
Where Diana took her hair down
G D G
And he saw her perfect body
C G
Shining through the thickets
C G
Such a blinding beauty
D G
He could not say a word
[Verse]
C
And though he stood there speechless
G C
She felt his eyes upon her
G C
And she turned him to a white stag
Am D
And set his dogs upon him
G D G
And the dogs didn't know their master
C G
They tore that stag to pieces
C G
Then called and called to him
D G
Who couldn't say a word
[Interlude]
G D G C G C G Am D C Bm Am
[Verse]
G D G
But as he lay there bleeding
C G
He smiled up at the sunset
C G
She who took his life from him
Am D D7
Was worth twice the cost
G D G
Swirls of deep red leaves
C G
Fell on his perfect body
C G
And he smiled up at the trees
D G
But could not say a word
[Verse]
C
When the fig tree blooms
G C
When the vine is red with berries
G C
Swallows soon will gather
Am D C Bm Am
To steal every drop of sugar
G C G
And the world turns in circles
C G
In such wheels of burning beauty
C G
Each morning kills the night
D G
Without a single word
C G
Each morning kills the night
D C Bm Am G
Without a single word
by The Handsome Family
Chords arranged and compiled by Latereducator
Track listing
1. "Linger, Let Me Linger" - 3:34
2. "Little Sparrows" - 3:08
3. "My Friend" - 4:56
4. "When You Whispered" - 3:11
5. "The Loneliness of Magnets" - 3:43
6. "June Bugs" - 3:38
7. "A Thousand Diamond Rings" - 3:40
8. "Love Is Like" - 3:21
9. "The Petrified Forest" - 4:11
10. "Wild Wood" - 3:10
11. "Darling, My Darling" - 3:39
12. "The Winding Corn Maze" - 4:35
13. "The Red Leaf Forest" - 3:25 [Bonus Track]
TRACK 1 - LINGER, LET ME LINGER
[Intro]
C
[Verse]
C D7
Like the thorn bush twines against the chain link fence
Dm Fm G
Like the spider spins its rings between the trees
Dm G#m G C
And the lonely sycamore bends to the breeze
[Verse]
C D7
I am the puddles in the street
Dm Fm G
waiting for your falling leaves
C D7
Twine your vines around me, drop your branches in my path
[Chorus]
Dm Fm G
Linger, let me linger
[Interlude]
Fm G Fm G Fm G C
[Bridge]
F Fm C
Hearts drawn on a dusty window pane,
Dm G
a love note lying in the road
F Fm C
A car circling round a darkened street,
Dm G
a woman crying on the phone
[Verse]
C D7
We are like the crickets in the spring,
Dm Fm G
calling out from under stones
C D7
Twine your vines around me, drop your branches in my path
[Chorus]
Dm Fm G
Linger, let me linger
[Outro]
C D7 Dm Fm G x2
Fm G (x5)
C
TRACK 2 - LITTLE SPARROWS
[Intro]
G C G Em C G
[Verse]
G C G
Oh, you little sparrows on a swaying branch
Em C G
Singing to the cars up on the overpass
[Chorus]
G Bm C G
When you fly away from here
G Am C G
Take me with you when you go
[Interlude]
G C G Em C G
G Bm C G Am C G
[Bridge]
D C G
A herd of antelope, a sea of redwood trees
Am D D7
Schools of shining fish and a thousand buzzing bees
[Verse]
G C G
Over winter parking lots the passing geese
Em C G
Rising in the air little dandelion seeds
[Chorus]
G Bm C G
When you fly away from here
G Am C G
Please don't leave me when you go
[Bridge]
D C G
If I were Jonah tossed into the raging sea
Am D D7
I would not fear the whale that came to swallow me
[Interlude]
G C G Em C G
G Bm C G Am C G
[Verse]
G C G
Oh, you paper cups rolling down the windy street
Em C G
Oh, you little ants winding through the tangled weeds
[Chorus]
G Bm C G
Where you're going I don't care,
G Am C G
Take me with you when you go
[Outro]
G Bm C G D C G
TRACK 3 - MY FRIEND
[Intro]
F Fm C
[Verse]
C G F C
I swear I heard a bird calling high in the chestnut trees
G F C
The sun was so bright, that bird I couldn’t see
G F C
No matter where I stood I couldn’t see beak or wing
G F C
Just burning, blinding leaves, still and silent trees
[Chorus]
C E
Were you with me then my friend?
F C
Are you with me now?
E
Were you with me then my friend?
F Fm C
Are you with me now?
[Verse]
C G F C
When that cement truck, the mixer turning slow
G F C
Drove right past me dripping in the road
F C G/B Am
That swollen body spinning in circles
Dm Am F C
I stopped and watched it roll, roll and groan
[Chorus]
C E
Were you with me then my friend?
F C
Are you with me now?
E
Were you with me then my friend?
F Fm C
Are you with me now?
[Verse]
C G F C
When I swam alone that night, late summer dusk
G F C
The air so warm and still, the water wide and dark
F C G/B Am
Something brushed against me, I splashed and kicked in fright
Dm Am F C G
Such cold hands upon me, underwater vines
[Chorus]
C E
Were you with me then my friend?
F C
Are you with me now?
E
Were you with me then my friend?
F Fm
Are you with me now?
[Outro]
C E F Fm x5
TRACK 4 - WHEN YOU WHISPERED
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
D A
Up on the drawbridge when we stood in the wind
E D A
My car left running, the doors wide open
D A
The wind spread ripples along the river waves
E D A
Your hands in my hair as the drawbridge swayed
[Chorus]
E
You leaned in closer as the sun fell away
D A
A plastic bag trembled caught in the waves
E D A
When you whispered what you whispered in my ear
[Verse]
D A
The breeze at the shoreline bent down the rushes
E D A
The sparrows cried out from the waving willows
D A
And even the minnows in the muddy shallows
E D A
Even the frogs calling from the shadows
[Chorus]
E
Even the wind leaned in to listen
D A
When you leaned in closer, your hands in my hair
E D A
When you whispered what you whispered in my ear
E D A
When you whispered what you whispered in my ear
TRACK 5 - THE LONELINESS OF MAGNETS
Less common chord phrasings used in the intro/ends of verses:
Gb13: 321003
G6: 322003
G7: 323003
[Intro]
G C C7 G A7 Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
[Verse]
C C7 G A7
My heart is a beating compass pointing to the pole
Am D7 G
The great expanse of stillness, the true magnetic north
C C7 G A7
I know the sky blue longing of a cloud of spiraling birds
Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
All turning in an instant, a perfect spinning whirl
[Chorus]
G C G Am C D7
I feel the loneliness of magnets and the tides across the sea
G C G Am C G
I am the dark valley calling to the trembling mountain peak
[Interlude]
C C7 G A7 Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
[Verse]
C C7 G A7
Wherever you are tonight as you close your eyes to sleep
Am D7 G
Think of me as you drift away to the mist of silver dreams
C C7 G A7
And I will find you in the darkness where water turns to steam
Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
Your pull upon my heart could steer ten thousand wings
[Chorus]
G C G Am C D7
I feel the loneliness of magnets and trembling mountain peaks
G C G Am C G
I call you from dark valleys and I hear you echoing
[Outro]
C C7 G A7 Am D7 G Gb13 G6 G7
C C7 G A7 Am D7 G
G
TRACK 6 - JUNE BUGS
[Intro]
A D A E A
[Verse]
D A E F#m
I want to kiss you in thickets and dripping wet glades
D A E F#m
As the stars rub against the dark skin of space
D A E F#m
Every planet is turning and calling your name
E E7
For hundreds of miles the trees bend your way
[Chorus]
A D
Because the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are back in the yard
[Interlude]
D A E A
[Verse]
D A E F#m
I want to kiss you in green groves and echoing caves
D A E F#m
I want to fall through the treetops and drift across lakes
E E7
The wind's in the oak trees, it's been raining for days
[Chorus]
A D
Because the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are crawling the yard
[Interlude]
D A E F#m D A E F#m D A E F#m E E7
[Chorus]
A D
Yes, the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are back in the yard
[Interlude]
D A E A
[Verse]
D A E F#m
Hawk moths are sipping the night-blooming rose
D A E F#m
A honey as sweet as the moon's sugar glow
D A E F#m
The leaves of the apple tree whispering low
E E7
The stars are on fire, the nightingales moan
[Chorus]
A D
Because the green buds are swelling
A E A
And June bugs are crawling the yard
[Outro]
D A E A
TRACK 7 - A THOUSAND DIAMOND RINGS
[Intro]
D G A G D
[Verse]
D G
A smashed windshield, the dust on a pickup truck
A G D
Shine with silver secrets in the Albuquerque sun
D G
The light makes jewels of pawn shops and drive-thru banks
A G D
Wrinkled faces staring out the windows of the laundromat
[Chorus]
Bm F#m
And even the broken glass scattered in the street
A E
Shines like a thousand diamond rings
[Interlude]
Bm A Em G A D
[Verse]
D G
Neon signs above the old motels,
A G D
warehouse stores and strip malls, houses sprawled across the hills
D G
The sunset's a bird with wings made out of fire
A G D
Parking lots turn to gold as it glides across the sky
D G
And every night from 6:00 to 6:05
A G D
The desert dirt shimmers like a sea of watermelon light
[Chorus]
Bm F#m
Even the broken glass shattered in the street
A E
Shines like a thousand diamond rings
[Outro]
Bm A Em G A Bm x2
Bm A Em G A D
TRACK 8 - LOVE IS LIKE
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
A G#m G F#
Love is like a white moth sipping tears from sleeping birds
F E
An asteroid in flames tumbling to Earth
A F A F
Raindrops sliding down the stems of orange leaves
A F A F A
The flicker of a strange light far out across the sea
[Verse]
A G#m G F#
Love is like a black fly buzzing in the sun
F E
Circling and landing, dancing like it's drunk
A F A F
All around the red apples scattered on the lawn
A F A F A
Fallen in the fury of last night's thunderstorm
[Verse]
A G#m G F#
Love is like the hole torn right through the roof
F E
When that old sugar pine came crashing down last night
A F A F
And above the broken beams and the shattered ceiling tiles
A F A F
You can see starlight for the very first time
[Instrumental]
A G#m G F# F E
A F A F
TRACK 9 - THE PETRIFIED FOREST
[Intro]
D
[Verse]
G F#m
When we were together
Bm Bm/A G
I lay in your river
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
As the fish swam through my hands
G F#m
Raindrops and roses
Bm Bm/A G
fell from the heavens
G A D Dsus4 D
Just to brush against your skin
G F#m
And a strand of your hair
Bm Bm/A G
lost to the wind
G A D Dsus4 D
Sent doves wheeling through the air
[Chorus]
G A D Dsus4 D
But now I'm alone in the petrified forest
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
Stumbling on rocks in the dark
G A D Dsus4 D
But I remember, I still remember
G A D Dsus4 D
When you held me in your beautiful arms
[Interlude]
G F#m Bm Bm/A G A Bm Bm/A Bm
[Verse]
Bm G F#m
When you left me alone
Bm Bm/A G
the sky turned to stone
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
And my legs rolled into the sea
G F#m
Why did you go?
Bm Bm/A G
The sea was so cold
G A D Dsus4 D
My arms blew off in the breeze
G F#m
I search for your footprints,
Bm Bm/A G
the scent of roses
G A D Dsus4 D
As the wind weeps over the sea
[Chorus]
G A D Dsus4 D
But now I'm alone in the petrified forest
G A Bm Bm/A Bm
Stumbling on rocks in the dark
G A D Dsus4 D
And I remember, I'll always remember
G A Bm
When you held me in your beautiful arms
[Outro]
Bm Bm/A Bm Bm/A Bm Bm/A Bm
TRACK 10 - WILD WOOD
[Intro]
A
[Verse]
A E A
Give me a swamp, a deep dark bog
D A
Where I can lose my way in pools of slippery mud
D A
Give me cold, cold rain, a cloud of stinging bugs
E A
Deadly nightshade, poison oak, give me the wild, wild wood
[Chorus]
E D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
Bm D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
[Verse]
A E A
We can dress in skins, wrap our feet in bark
D A
And you can growl at me or hit me with a rock
D A
When you want to say, "I love you," in the dark
E A
And I will bark like a dog in your arms
[Chorus]
E D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
Bm D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
[Interlude]
A E A D A D A E A
[Verse]
A E A
We can make a god out of sticks and bones
D A
Or we can pray to the trees or pray to the sun
D A
And our eyes will shine when we start to sing
E A
With the hungry wolves outside our freezing cave
[Chorus]
E D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
Bm D A
The wild, the wild, wild, wild wood
[Outro]
A
TRACK 11 - DARLING, MY DARLING
[Intro]
G G/B G G/B
[Verse]
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, look at my waving antennae
Am C G
My barbed jaw and hard red pincers,
Em G C
the stripes running down my spine
Em G Am C G
Darling, my darling, watch me fly up in spirals
Em G C
Admire the horns 'neath my eyes,
G
the fan of my beautiful wings
[Chorus]
Am C G
I'll give you everything
[Interlude]
Em G Am C G Em G C G
[Verse]
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, I bow my leg like a cello
Am C G
I perch on branches and bellow,
Am C G
while dreaming only of thee
[Chorus]
Am C G
I'll give you everything
[Verse]
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, down in the dew-dropped rushes
Em G C
I beat my head in the darkness
G
and build a fortress of tunnels
C G Am C G
Darling, my darling, your snapping fangs don't scare me
Am C G
I'll leap on your spine and love you
Am C G
till you gnaw me down to my wings
[Chorus]
Am C G
I'll give you everything
Am C G
I'll give you everything
[Outro]
D
Oh my darling
G
Oh my darling
TRACK 12 - THE WINDING CORN MAZE
[Intro]
G Cm G Cm Am C Am C Cm
[Verse]
G Cm
I came to a field of green
G Cm
where the corn stalks grew so tall
Am C
The sunlight could not pierce
Am C Cm
to the winding path below
G Cm
Round and round I went
G Cm
under those waving stems
Am C
I followed the shadowed path
Am C Cm
marked so faintly with her step
[Chorus]
Am C
Down in the winding corn maze
Am Cm G
where green stalks shiver in the wind
[Interlude]
G Cm G Cm Am C Am C Cm x2
[Chorus]
Am C
Down in the winding corn maze
Am Cm G
where green stalks shiver in the wind
[Verse]
G Cm
Such spirals spread for miles
G Cm
through the bending leaves
Am C
There in a swarm of bees
Am C Cm
I knelt down at her feet
G Cm
And she took me to her arms
G Cm
in that cloud of honey bees
Am C
Whirring in their whirling
Am C Cm
as they rose on golden wings
[Chorus]
Am C
Down in the winding corn maze
Am Cm G
where green stalks shiver in the wind
[Outro]
G
G Cm x6
TRACK 13 [BONUS TRACK] - THE RED LEAF FOREST
[Intro]
G D G
[Verse]
G D G
Deep in the red leaf forest
C G
A hunter with his crossbow
C G
Came upon the secret pool
Am D
Where Diana took her hair down
G D G
And he saw her perfect body
C G
Shining through the thickets
C G
Such a blinding beauty
D G
He could not say a word
[Verse]
C
And though he stood there speechless
G C
She felt his eyes upon her
G C
And she turned him to a white stag
Am D
And set his dogs upon him
G D G
And the dogs didn't know their master
C G
They tore that stag to pieces
C G
Then called and called to him
D G
Who couldn't say a word
[Interlude]
G D G C G C G Am D C Bm Am
[Verse]
G D G
But as he lay there bleeding
C G
He smiled up at the sunset
C G
She who took his life from him
Am D D7
Was worth twice the cost
G D G
Swirls of deep red leaves
C G
Fell on his perfect body
C G
And he smiled up at the trees
D G
But could not say a word
[Verse]
C
When the fig tree blooms
G C
When the vine is red with berries
G C
Swallows soon will gather
Am D C Bm Am
To steal every drop of sugar
G C G
And the world turns in circles
C G
In such wheels of burning beauty
C G
Each morning kills the night
D G
Without a single word
C G
Each morning kills the night
D C Bm Am G
Without a single word
The Heligoats
The Hi Marks
The High Kings
The Highwaymen
The Hives
The Hootz
The Horrors
The Housemartins
The Hunger Games
The Hunna