Tom: G
G C
If I was a crow I'd fly the roads that wind between these places
G C
Over back lanes and weathered veins where creeks have left their traces
D C D C
Fruit trees planted long ago still bloom every other season
D C D
The fence won't keep the rabbits out, the gate's always open for some damn reason
G C G C
G C
Follow and trace the coastline's lace to a place that's worn and storied
G C
At the end of their chain the great lakes drain into the old St. Lawrence
D C D C
Oh we've held a party or two, slept a million dreamers
D C D G
Awoke to find the coffee on, though the smoke is gone, the poetry lingers
[Chorus]
D C D G
If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun
D C D Em
If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one
D C D C
Whatever you do, if you have to, oh use your thumb, just get here, just come
[Verse 2]
G C
If you come out at night you'll see the light and where to make the turnoff
G C
But do call ahead, we might be in bed or writing with our clothes off
D C D C
Writing on the wallpaper, writing on the womb
D C D G
Though poets die, a lullaby still whispers faintly in the room
[Chorus]
D C D G
If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun
D C D Em
If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one
D C D C
Whatever you do, if you have to, oh use your thumb, just get here, just come
[Bridge]
Am D Am
If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun
D Am
If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one
D C
If your hands are getting cold, you don't know what you've become
[Verse 3]
G C
If I was a crow I'd fly the roads that wind between these places
G C
Where poems were read and hungers fed and the days were warm and gracious
D C D C
Did we keep a guest book somwehere or are the records fading?
D C D G
We'll make a vow to start one now, there is still time, but it's not waiting
