Goose Eggs Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][C][F][Eb]

[Verse 1]
[G]What we built,
[D]at the kiln that won't be [F]stilled
Did not [Eb]set well

[Verse 2]
The [G]old veil [D]of desire
Like the vessels that [F]we fired
Fell thin [Eb]as eggshells

[Verse 3]
And [Gm]every season, somebody burns
[F]Downtown, taking turns
[Ab]Taking a bus,
to take [Eb]a train and just plain vamoose
Now the [Gm]wind blows coals
over the hill[F]s
Honey I've been paying my bills
[Ab]But honey it's been a long time
since [Eb]I've come to any use
And it [Gm]hurt me bad,
when I heard the news
That you'd got [Bb]that call,
and could not refuse

[Verse 4]
A [F]goose, alone, I suppose,
can know the [C]loneliness of geese
Who never find their peace
[Bb]Whether north, or south, or west,
[F]or east, west [Dm]or east
And I could nev[C]er find my way
To being the kind [Bb]of friend you
seemed to need in [F]me
Till the needing [Eb]had c[Db]eased
[G]Re cently,

[Verse 5]
[D]a bottle of rye,
and a friend, [F]and me
On our [Eb]five loose legs
Had a [G]ramble, and [D]spoke
Of the [F]scrambling of broken hopes,
[Eb]and goose eggs
[Gm]And a stranger, long ago
[F]Not you honey, you, I know
[Ab]Just spoke of broken hopes
[Eb]and old strangers
Now the [Gm]wind blows coals over
the [F]sea tell you what
Honey, you and me,
[Ab]better run and see if we can't[Eb] contain them first

[Verse 6]
But you [Gm]had somewhere that you
had to go
And you caught [Bb]that flight out of Covalo
Now, [F]overhead,
you're gunning [C]in those Vs
Where you had better find your peace
[Bb]Whether north, or south, or west,
[F]or east, west, [Dm]or east
And I had bet[C]ter find my way
To being the kind [Bb]of friend
you seemed to need in [F]me
At last, [Eb]at least
[Db]What's

[Verse 7]
[C]redacted will repeat
And you [Bb]cannot learn that you
burn when you [F]touch the heat
So we touch the [Dm]heat
And we [C]cut facsimiles of [Bb]love
and death
Just separate [F]holes in sheets
Where you cannot [Eb]breathe,
and you cannot see
[Db]And I cannot

[Verse 8]
[C]now, for the life of me,
[Bb]believe our talk
Our flock [F]had cause to leave
But [Dm]do we? D[C]o we?

[Outro 1]
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[C][Bb][F][Dm]
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