Tallest Man On Earth : There's No Leaving Now

Capo:

VII

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G

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Csus4

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) We're melting ruby hearts, a confusing trade

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Am7

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G

To burn the ore, and to shape a blade

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Am7

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C

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) Then to swing it low, beginners fate

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Am7

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G

To lose a skin, to just grow away

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C

Like a rain, to help a river

G

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G

But a river's so hard to please

Em

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G

But I've grown to see the diamonds (

C

) You've thrown in just for me

Repeat intro

We spent so many nights just gathering stones The silver tears, and old sapphire bones And all the copper leaves, then dreamt, now true Look how they find their path, to cut right through Like a rain, to help a river But a river so hard to please But I've grown to see the diamonds You've thrown in just for me

Em

Am

Look when your hopeless child will figure

Em

Am

There are moments when hope's not

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C

G

Only real when flagging far down a road

Em

Am

With an armful broken arrows

Em

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And no hand free for the bow

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Your kid will lose a battle, but your ways will let him go

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Am7

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) I lose my wish to drown and aimless flee

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Am7

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What you've thrown to lose is still right here with me

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G

C

Em

D

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G

C

I was more than just a coward, I was handsome too

Em

D

I felt nothing when your flood came down

G

C

Holding fines that made me wonder if the lights were wrong

Em

D

With my hands that never touched no ground

Am

D

When your talent is in numbers

Bm

Em

Of the many times you've gone

C

D

I could lie I don't care about forgiving

G

But sometimes it's just roses dying too young

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C

Em

D

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And you're fencing up the hours in the fields of red While you think I'm on a loveless stray In the letters from the lovers in a land gone wrong Explanations always written late When your talent curse the framing Of the crying you heard sung I could lie I don't care about what's missing But sometimes it's just roses dying too young

Em

Bm

C

Am

With your train of thought always passing here

Em

Bm

C

Am

With its falling paint, and its broken gears

Em

Bm

C

Am

It's the damn revelation blues when you see the path

Em

D

C

And you know you won't be the last, oh Lord, oh Lord I was more than just a terror, I was crying too But you showed me in the gusts between That a wind is sometimes broken and its flying path Has no meaning no a ghost within When your talent is in hiding That your feeling's always wrong I always want to bring you something But sometimes it's just roses dying too young

Tuning: DGDGBD (Open G)

Capo:

II

G

Em

G

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G

Em

By the eyes of the very young

C

G

It's a sudden good attack

G

Em

On our weakness, my horse and I

C

G

Carry anger forth and back

D

But we'll make it somehow

C

D

You have all what's mine

G

And you're leading me now

Repeat intro

On the gallop to mother's field We would lose our breath and fight And you give me the look of thorns We give liars every night But I get you somehow Leave the reins inside You're leading me now

Repeat intro

C

D

And every time we wonder

G

C

What we left back in your hearts

C

D

Could you see we're dreaming

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C

D

Though our minds just fall apart To the site where I flew from you When your pace just scared me blind We will come back and joke of days When I sold you to the unkind We will end up somehow With a peaceful mind And you're leading me now And every time we wonder What we left back in your hearts Could you see we're dreaming Though our minds just fall apart We will end up somehow With a peaceful mind And you're leading me now

Tuning: EADGBD (Drop High D)

Capo:

V

G 320200 C* 332000 Am x02210

G* 320000 D 200200 Am* x02200

C/G 332010 D* 200210 Em 022000

C 332200 Bm x2443x Em7 022030

G

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G

C

G*

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Am*

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x2

G

C/g

Well some may say it's not even funny

Am

D

And there you stand, not even trying

G

C/g

They say it is in line with the ages

Am

D

Sometimes noise is just your mind

C/g

G*

D

But the lesson's vague in the light now

C/g

G*

D

Shows a deer with her mind on the moor

G

C/g

And now something with the sun is just different

Am

D

G

Since they shook the earth in 1904

G

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Am

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) And as I lowered down I hear it's a message And it's 1902 just telling people to get out And if there was just a way I could tell them It's been long but you are right And the singing is slow and so quiet Like the sound when you sweep up the floor And now something with the dirt is just different Since they shook the earth in 1904

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Am

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Bm

C

And when the night is young but the bridge is up

Em

C

Something passing by, I was sure

Bm

C

And the only one you can tell it to

Em

D

Well it's the only one that ever knows And since more robbers made to go through my window Here is something so strange and something louder than before And you're living with no light or direction But damn precise and now you know When believing is hard but you go now And you feel what you drag across the floor Because something with these drills are just different Since they shook the earth in 1904

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And when the night is young but the bridge is up Something passing by, I was sure And the only one you will tell it to Well it's the only one who'll ever know And some will say it's not even healthy But body is young and mind is sure That something is alright with your thinking Since they shook the earth in 1904

Capo:

VI

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Well we air clear blue aching skies in the morning after

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And memories of gold on the run, flying around

C

Am

Was there a drunken cloud over someone just empty?

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G

A vision of a mountain you say, so where did it go?

G7

Am

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G

It was light and i held it like a child to be saved

G7

Am

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G

From the fires and from the falling down satellites, but still wondering

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C

Am

"Damn you always treat me like a stranger, mountain

Em

Am

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Though you've seen the shadow between the city and what is mine

C

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C

Am

And fallen kids all rising men among their logs, but leavers

Em

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Suddenly darker in their eyes and their broken smiles

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) It's only what these kids will haul around |

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| Well there's a lot of sullen land for hungry feed of answers And medicine for balancing things, like seeing your ghosts So thank god we're bright, said the lantern's brother 'Cause I don't know a thing about boats or the land I see It was day and I stood there once again climbing quick when I knew you were the one throwing dying stars on our gathering But he said: damn you always treat me like a mountain, stranger Though I have never seen your shadows or fading lights I'm just a rock that you'll be picking up through all your ages Always believing there's a canyon for every blind It's only what these kids will haul around |

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Dmaj7

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Dmaj7

When there's no one here in the tryouts

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Dmaj7

Who will live through your first day's trial

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Dmaj7

Of confusion when your faint and crooked smile

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E7

Had to leave When you're painted like a warrior Though you know it's a raining war When the first who spoke, but wasn't really sure Was your heart

C#m

F#m

Your fear of the leading light

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F#m

If they are with you and your heart won't fail

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F#m

To see through a fearless eye

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F#m

And know that danger finally goes away

D

E

Still you're trying

A

But there's no leaving now

Repeat intro chords

With your quiet damn devotion To be lost like your child again Claim forever is a close and honest friend To your ways Will there be time to harvest rivers That for so long refused to grow All the little things you need to build a home For your love Your fear of the leading light If they are with you and your heart won't fail To see through a fearless eye And know that danger finally goes away Still you're trying But there's no leaving now Your fear of the leading light If they are with you and your heart won't fail To see through a fearless eye And know that danger finally goes away Still you're trying But there's no leaving now

Tuning: CGCGCD (Open Cadd9)

Note: this is banjo "Double C", with an added low C.

Well, "All is well in order" is what you thought you heard them say And so you drifted off to see what's not in yourself Light is turning slowly will it lay out on the plains? No more nights of what you wrote back then, no relief of no rain And so, singing songs of rivers tied to accidents within And telling people lies of lions, treasures, and kings Nothing's more revealing than the dancer and the doubt Waving to forget what's never gone, always there, never right In all these riots of broken sounds Like the last voice you heard Then you drowned, oh Lord You know, this is wind and walls and weathered leaves and tearing sails And minnows in your pockets when the rapid's on trails This is not the future but I sense it's right up there Oh, just another hour, another pass, another day anywhere In all these riots of broken sounds And you sleep on the track every night Oh Lord And we don't know if your treasure is safe Where will you be when they find you, son? And you know they're always following me So when I get there you trust me son, and just leave I'll catch up This is where you're passionate of seasons and their strength And this is where you breathe and walk and know they will end Light is turning slowly to the hand upon your chest So lay it on the plains where there is time, there is love, there is rest From all these riots of broken sounds When you sleep on the track every night Oh Lord And we don't know if your treasure is safe Where will you be when they find you, son? And you know they're always following me I'll be the best when the silence comes

Capo:

III

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G

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G

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Am

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D

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Am

D

Why are you thinking again little brother?

G

C

When you know there's a story for every wrong

Am

D

Well I won't be around in the morning

G

C

Can only pray there's no harm in me moving on

Am

D

To the trials in your unknown Now there's a legion of wolves in the forest And what might of been lost, it is there I know Where the crazy young flames loved an older I feel useless and I have to face alone All the trials and my unknown

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G

If you could just walk on by

G+

G

With signs just flying around

Em

C

And if this storm was just emotion

Am

D

Of your kid just trying out

G

If you could only lose these lies Now there's a terrible light on the ceiling Where you drew your insanity sum upon Well I can see where hit dark hits the summer I said I believe you forever but you sit down It's the trial for all that grows If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these lies Why are you drinking again little brother When your rambling's the hard part of loving you You say the creek and fog's gonna drown you But there are deeper wells where we're going to There's no drought in this unknown If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these lies And when your memory's lost on a hillside And a wind takes you further forward now And your world is a kite in the weather Gently tied to your hand that is pointing out There's a sky in this unknown If you could just walk on by With signs just flying around And if this storm was just emotion Of your kid just trying out If you could only lose these lies

Capo:

III

G

Em

There were days when you thought you would just go under

C

D

And the weekends that you never understood

G

Em

When you flew from the bar only seventeen

C

D

You didn't bleed and no one ever thought you would And there where straights and lines and every sorts of options To stay away from broken mirrors in your friends But the summer was strung with some mighty thread And no law would never wait around no bend

C

D

G

Em

Come see the hiding in rain, come see the stillness in all them ones

C

D

G

Em

Come see the lovable strain of someone diving for all you know

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D

Come see the strain of a reeling tribe

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D

Come meet the criminals of this Napoleon ride And there were the nights when you thought we would just surrender To the stories of the miracles of gulls Oh, When you flew from your sheets where your hours gone You never sleep and no one ever thought you would Come see the hiding in rain, come see the stillness in all them ones Come see the lovable strain of someone diving for all you know Come see the strain of a reeling tribe Come meet the criminals of this Napoleon ride There are illusions and then just not even wanting To walk around a shiny peak of snow What a picture that is to be saved for us and How it's standing like it's just for us to know There was a time in my life when I was carried by all of you Now I run like a man still don't know what I dive into Come see the strain of a reeling tribe Come meet the criminals of this Napoleon ride

Capo:

VII

Bm7b5 x2323x

G7 323030

E7sus4 x202xx

E7 x201xx

Am

Bm7b5

G7

C

E7sus4

E7

Am

Bm7b5

When you just tell them what I cannot say

G7

C

E7sus4

E7

When you just shine upon the ghosts on my way

Am

Bm7b5

I drop the game of throwing knives alone

G7

C

E7sus4

E7

F

E

There must be marks on every tree from the past to our home Only the mayfly used to tell me so Now here is august, drop your weight, just let go Now midnight sun takes turns with northern lights Will I ever have to feel what those blades were about?

F

C

And in that sound of sighing, that empty howl

E

Am

G

And all the ever-loving bends in the line of your tries

F

C

Some ends forgotten and some others believed

E

Am

G

F

Whatever happened to the boy's now a tale for the seas

C

G

F

When you know you're already young

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G

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Like the grass wither to become

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Am

Bm7b5

G7

C

E7sus4

E7

Again and free, it's all we'll ever be I don't remember where i learned to dive but I am humble for the rocks when I try and somehow I am lowered onto the waves now with you I feel the sun and the salt on my face And in that sound of sighing, that empty howl And all the ever-loving bends in the line of your tries Some ends forgotten and some others believed Whatever happened to the boy's now a tale for the seas When you know you're already young Like the grass wither to become Again and free, it's all we'll ever be Tired motion of the rusty bell Just humming, visitor I quit, go to hell I've been the tower but now walk along There must be marks on every page from the past to these songs And in that sound of sighing, that empty howl And all the ever-loving bends in the line of your tries Some ends forgotten and some others believed Whatever happened to the boy's now a tale for the seas When you know you're already young Like the grass wither to become Again and free, it's all we'll ever be

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2012

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1904

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Criminals

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Tallest Man On Earth : There's No Leaving Now 2012

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Revelation Blues

Leading Me Now

1904

Bright Lanterns

There's No Leaving Now

Wind And Walls

Little Brother

Criminals

On Every Page

Tallest Man On Earth : There's No Leaving Now
2012