Shadows On A Dime Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Dm][Am][F]
[Am][Dm][Am]

[Verse 1]
[Am]This
window makes a perfect frame
For
New
England views like painted rain
[Dm]They hold me as I hold this train,
[Am]all shadows on a dime
[F]You move for[Am]ward fast by holding back
You gauge your steps
and you don't look slack
[Dm]Yeah, I'm looking backward
down the [Am]track
To see us dreamers in our prime
[E]I poured my soul i[Am]n
Santa
Cruz
[E]I ached all night,
next [Am]day I lost my shoes
[F]It's so optional,
what you may [Dm]or may not lose
In [E]this pattern we call [Am]time
Fifteen years ago I worked the line
With a thousand more all due in time
[Dm]While a foreman smiled, complicit crime
We [Am]were strangers to [F]the plan
[Am]An old, old woman ran the gear
She couldn't mow
They said she'd been there 40 years,
I think [Dm]that's rude
Cause 40 years is [Am]40 years,
and I was only 15 then
[E]And the work weights
wore [Am]upon our backs
[E]An d we gauged our steps [Am]and
we didn't look [F]slack
And one day the old wo
[Dm]man didn't come back
I could[E]n't work so
well and they let [Am]me go
[E]But I don't forget about [Am]the factory
[E]I don't expect this r[Am]ide to always be
[F]Can I give you what you[Dm]'ll want to see?
Will [E]we do it one more [Am]time?
Ten years have worn this guitar down
Its ivory whites are now mustard brown
Its [Dm]face bears cracks from [Am]every town
Still it resonates with [F]age
Where [Am]would I be without its ring?
Who would I be if I didn't sing?
[Dm]For half a chance you [Am]spare nothing
A tethered bird to a tethered cage
[E]I sing to you to f[Am]eel the dream
[E]I call to you though i[Am]t's
a muted scream
We're [F]one -on -one projected
[Dm]beams
Translu[E]cent future, be our [Am]sage
5 years have played since
she warmed my side
She is my gift, I've loved and cried
[Dm]With her level look, she is my guide
[Am]A spirit on the way[F]
Our [Am]love has jostled like this train
Or like the moon to wax and wane
[Dm]But to know somebody worth t[Am]he strain,
I have one gift to bring
[E]I cried for her t[Am]hen I let her down
An[E]d she let me go and
[Am]then we came around
And [F]I felt us [Dm]two and I felt the ground
And [E]I felt myself believi[Am]ng
[Dm][Am][F][Am]
[Dm][Am]
And now a tired conductor passes by
He takes my ticket with a sigh
I [Dm]don't think he meant to catch my [Am]eye,
but he doesn't turn away
[F]He says,
[Am]I have a daughter as old as you
And there's really nothing
anyone else can do
[Dm]Do you play guitar?
Well, good for you, may [Am]I play the violin?
[E]I imagine him with h[Am]is hair jet black
[E]Does he hide his fiddle [Am]in the back?
He [F]gauged his words as the
[Dm]train went slack
The
[E]New
York train stops [Am]here
An[E]d I don't forget about t[Am]he factory
[E]I don't expect this r[Am]ide to always be
[F]Can I give them [Dm]what they want to see?
Let me [E]do it twice,
the second time for [Am]me
Cause these windows make
a perfect frame
Where
New
York buildings like upright trains
[Dm]They hold me as I hold the [Am]rain
While shadows on a [F]dime[Am]
you