Grand Dark Feeling Of Emptiness

Tabbed by: bengtaaron
Tuning: Standard
Am
Am                      C
Well I felt like I was born today
Am                      C
So I took it upon me to go away
Am                      C
To gather my thoughts and go away
         Bb                      Am
To where I could be used by somebody
Am                   C
Over the hill like always you know
Am                         C
Were Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe
Am                          C
And they beat and broke me hard and slow
    Bb           Am
To prove I was nobody
Am                    G
And no one I was and so remained
Am                      G
Knocked out in a hut, no mother, no name
Am                          G
And filled up my heart with one and the same
Am               G          Am
That grand dark feeling of emptiness
Am                       C
And was it a friend that turned me loose?
Am                       C
Or was it a girl come to baste my goose?
Am                         C
Or was it my great God who laid on his finger
     Bb              Am
And started my clock anew?
Am                   G
Ah no, it was rain, ah no, it was gunning
      Am                           G
It was point break and buckle and singing and cunning
     Am                            G
That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running
       Am          G              Am
And I never looked back from then on
Am
And now I'm learning bit by bit
G
'Bout the make and model shit
F
Muddy bowl, I live in it
Em                      Am
And all the mucks that tire us
Am
And I'm afeared if I don't have
G
A piglet, lamb, or little calf
F
I'll chop my humanness in half
Em                  Am
And be as worm or virus
Am
But kids I've had, and they are sung
G
Upon folks' ears my babes are hung
F
And rhythmically they live among
Em                     Am
And grow but don't get old
Am
Not in a box, not in a void
G
Not if their voice is never heard
F
Nor if no-one repeats a word
Em                    Am
But if their tune is told, then...
C                G
We can age and fall away
C                    G
And meet again some golden day
Am                   F
And fill it in our happy way
Am          G       Am
In starlight and in gold