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The Place I Live by Mount Eerie




       The Place I Live



 
Em D Em D Em
 
      C
If I look 
        Bm
or if I don't look 
Em                         D
clouds are always passing over 
              C
the place I live. 
 
C
 
C
The place I live 
         Bm
passing under 
   Em                   D
my feet while my mind wanders 
             C
in a sea of fog. 
 
C
 
C
On a ridge 
                  Bm
seeing through a hole in the fog 
 
("A thought out of nowhere comes passing through")
          C
I say to myself 
 
("I say to myself, like a voice on the wind")
Em
"Behold" 
      D
("But I")
             C
but I see nothing. 
Bm
Rocks and water and wood 
             Em
not speaking to me. 
 
("Left alone to wander above")
D
Slow and uneasy and alive. 
              C
("The sea of fog") 
 
C
 
            Bm
I mean the place lives 
                 C
and clouds pass over 
 
("sitting on a ridge and watching clouds pass over")
       Em
the landscape 
              D
a blanket on stone 
 
("where an ocean of glaciers rolled")
                 C
Land waves are rolling. 
               Bm
("Through a fog, this is a brief life.") 
              ("Short and cold, momentarily.")
                         ("A life as brief as the morning fog")
       C
Momentarily, 
                  G
I come out from under.





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version 2 





By the way, for the first E chord I play a bar chord on the 7th fret,
and for the next E chords I play it on the 1st fret.

 
Bm E C Am C G Am Bm
 
C Bm E
 
C
Watching the light change 
Am
I see the place lives. 
C
I've stayed here long enough 
G                         Am
moss has started to grow. 
          Bm               C
But still, wind sweeping clear 
 
the brief collection assembled,
Bm               Bm Am Gm E
the silt I clutch. 
 
C Am C G
 
Am
Looking east in the spring 
          Bm
through ashes and fog 
         C          C        C
white permanent... snow... shines.







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