Noni's Field
Am
When I closed my eyes in Noni's field
C
We were lying on our backs.
Am
I dreamt that the ground split a seam,
C
Our spirits, floating.
Fmaj7
When no longer tied into our bodies,
C
We left them wrapping as a sign,
to slip into the crack.
Fmaj7 C
Tired and ready to go.
C
But I don't know what goes on.
G7
I touched my grandfather s face, he lay fixed in his casket.
He lay sewn shut and folded so that none could refuse it.
Am
They had posed, they had painted him.
I laughed. I let him go.
D7 Fmaj7
His cheeks washed like watercolor sunlight, evening time.
C
I could never put my hands back to them.
C
Still, I don t know what goes on.
G7
Will my thoughts burn in unseen patterns, form a dim glow in your mind
Long after you remember who it was that I looked like?
Am D7 Fmaj7 C
Oh Oh Oh Oh
Am C
We saw the sky, swarming full with the light that the fireflies made.
Am Em/G Fmaj7
An accidental constellation.
D7 Fmaj7 C
You, how will you go?
Am D7
Out through your mouth in a sigh?
Fmaj7 C
Into a space we don't know.
Am D7 Fmaj7 D7 Fmaj7
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
C
(Awesome String Part)
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