Jackson Browne : Late For The Sky

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The words had all been spoken

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And somehow the feeling still wasn't right

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And still we continued on through the night

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Tracing our steps from the beginning

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Until they vanished into the air

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Trying to understand how our lives had led us there

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Looking hard into your eyes

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Em

There was nobody I'd ever known

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Such an empty surprise to feel so alone

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Now for me some words come easy

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But I know that they don't mean that much

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Compared with the things that are said when lovers touch

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You never knew what I loved in you

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I don't know what you loved in me

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Maybe the picture of somebody you were hoping I might be

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Awake again I can't pretend

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Em

That I know I'm alone

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And close to the end of the feeling we've known

Dm

C

How long have I been sleeping

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Am

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How long have I been drifting alone through the night

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How long have I been dreaming I could make it right

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If I closed my eyes and tried with all my might

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To be the one you need

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Am

Awake again I can't pretend

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Em

That I know I'm alone

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Am

G

And close to the end of the feeling we've known

Dm

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How long have I been sleeping

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Am

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How long have I been drifting alone through the night

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How long have I been running for that morning flight

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Through the whispered promises and the changing light

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Of the bed where we both lie

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Late for the sky

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Csus4

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Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn't show your spirit quite as true

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You were turning round to see who was behind you

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And I took your childish laughter by surprise

Am7

Bb/f

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Dm

And at the moment that my camera happened to find you

Gm7

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There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes

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Csus4

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Now the things that I remember seem so distant and so small Though it hasn't really been that long a time What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all Although for a while, our path did seem to climb

Am

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But when you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger

Am

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And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool

Am7

Bb/f

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Dm

So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger

Gm7

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While the loneliness seems to spring from your life

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Like a fountain from a pool

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F/c

Dbdim7

Dm

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Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to hide sometimes, but now you're all right

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Bb/f

Bb

F/a

Gm7

And it's good to see your smiling face tonight

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Gm7

F/a

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F/a

Gm7

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Dm

Csus4

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Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams But that magic feeling never seems to last And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems It would be easier sometimes to change the past

Am

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I'm just one or two years and a couple of changes behind you

Am

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C/bb

In my lessons at love's pain and heartache school

Am7

Bb/f

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C

Dm

Where if you feel too free and you need something to remind you

Gm7

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There's this loneliness springing up from your life

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Like a fountain from a pool

Bb

F/c

Dbdim7

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Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to hide sometimes but now you're all right

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Bb/f

Bb

F/a

Gm7

And it's good to see your smiling face tonight

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Gm7

F/a

Csus4

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Bb

F/c

Dbdim7

Dm

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Fountain of sorrow, fountain of light You've known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright

Bb

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Dbdim7

Dm

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x2

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Keep a fire burning in your eye

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Pay attention to the open sky

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G

You never know what will be coming down

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I don't remember losing track of you

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You were always dancing in and out of view

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I must've thought you'd always be around

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Always keeping things real by playing the clown

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Now you're nowhere to be found

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I don't know what happens when people die

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Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try (

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It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear

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That I can't sing, I can't help listening

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And I can't help feeling stupid standing round

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Crying as they ease you down

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'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing

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) Dancing our sorrow away (Right on dancing)

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No matter what fate chooses to play

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(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)

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C

Just do the steps that you've been shown

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By everyone you've ever known

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C7

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Until the dance becomes your very own

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No matter how close to yours

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Another's steps have grown

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In the end there is one dance you'll do alone Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found

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Don't let the uncertainty turn you around (The world keeps turning around and around)

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C

Go on and make a joyful sound

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C

Into a dancer you have grown

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From a seed somebody else has thrown

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C7

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Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own

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Am

And somewhere between the time you arrive

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And the time you go

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G

May lie the reason you were alive

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C

But you'll never know

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D

F#m

Walking slow down the avenue through my old neighborhood

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F#m

Don't know why I'm happy, I've got no reason to feel this good

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D

F#m

Maybe it's because I'm all alone and I've got no place to go

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D

F#m

And everywhere I look I see another person I'll never know

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D

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I got a thing or two to say before I walk on by

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C#7

F#m

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I'm feeling good today, but if I die a little farther along

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A

I'm trusting everyone to carry on

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D

F#m

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Pretty little girl running up and down the street with no shoes on

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F#m

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I got a pretty little girl of my own at home

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F#m

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Sometimes we forget we love each other and we fight for no reason

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F#m

I don't know what I'll do if she ever leaves me alone I got a thing or two to say before I walk on by I'm feelin' good today, but if I die a little farther along I'm trustin' everyone to carry on |

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I got a thing or two to say before I walk on by I'm feelin' good today, but if I die a little farther along I'm trustin' everyone to carry on

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I'm puttin' down my left foot

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I'm puttin' down my right foot

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F#m

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F#m

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Woo hoo, woo hoo, woo hoo I got a thing or two to say before I walk on by I'm feelin' good today, but if I die a little farther along I'm trustin' everyone to carry on

Intro (played twice)

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Some of them were dreamers, and some of them were fools

Em

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Who were making plans and thinking of the future

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With the energy of the innocent, they were gathering the tools

Em

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They would need to make their journey back to nature

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While the sand slipped through the opening and their hands reached for the golden ring

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With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge

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In the troubled years that came before the deluge Some of them knew pleasure, and some of them knew pain And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered And on the brave and crazy wings of youth they went flying around in the rain And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered And in the end they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

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Now let the music keep our spirits high

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C

And let the buildings keep our children dry

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Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by

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By and by...

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When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky Some of them were angry at the way the earth was abused By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power And they struggled to protect her from them, only to be confused By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour And when the sand was gone and the time arrived in the naked dawn only a few survived And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge Now let the music keep our spirits high And let the buildings keep our children dry Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by By and by... When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

Repeat intro chords

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Jackson Browne : Late For The Sky
1974

Late For The Sky

Fountain Of Sorrow

For A Dancer

Walking Slow

Before The Deluge

Jackson Browne : Late For The Sky 1974

Late For The Sky

Fountain Of Sorrow

For A Dancer

Walking Slow

Before The Deluge

Jackson Browne : Late For The Sky
1974