Abigail

D
Abigail, the shore is frozen,
G                                   F#m
Our tar trails have been bulldozin' down
Bm
Your sharpened frown,
E           A  A/G
Once had me possessed

D  Cadd9

D  Cadd9  G (walkdown into verse)

D
Do you recall the crippled summer?,
     G
Your fam'ly all was in deep slumber
F#m           Bm
And oh how I loved their ways
     E                   A  A/G
When Leland's haze still lingered

On my shadow
D  Cadd9

D
Your brother he didn't have to die,
     G
Your mother she didn't have to cry
     F#m                Bm
Your father didn't have to ask why
E                  A  A/G
summer was on your chest

As your eyes glow
D  Cadd9

D
All our drugstore lawns blew cool so fast,
    G
The mill was never built to last
    F#m                 Bm
The tort'rous thrill of sweating grass
   E                A  A/G
Is this town's only sorrowed

Trampled blanket
D  Cadd9

    D
And if I was branded to your foyer
        G
Through passing carpenters and lawyers
  F#m         Bm
Agrarians and God's own soldiers
E             A  A/G
I would never make it

G                     A
Do you still dream of dangerous hotels
F#m                   Bm
Wrapped in glares and daffodil smells
G                  Bm        Bb  A
With your barefeet buried in weeds?

G                A
I still dream of snarled backyards
    F#m                  Bm
And being chased through nighttime's discards
G              Bm                  Bb  A
Where my fence reddens, rusts, and bleeds

        G                 A
And the curbs are haunted by the killers
   F#m         Bm
Of memories of your back pillars
G             Bm           Bb  A
Where nothing wakens as it seems

G                 A
All our rooms are hopeful mornings
F#m                 Bm
Left like tombs when nights are swarming
G             Bm               Bb  A
And branching feathers fan our dreams

C                     A
And your star was the saddest symbol
F#m                 Bm
Flickered with your mother's thimble
G           A
Pitiful and sunsoaked soggy
F#m         Bm
Beautiful inside the muggy
G              Bm            Bb  A
Ashamed of our bodies in the stream

D
Ah but spring's dumbed voice is just like yours
       G
And if I had a choice I'd do my chores
F#m          Bm
And my work would dumbfound
    E                  A  A/G
The restlessness found in you

D  Cadd9

   D
And no one else could understand the truth
       G
Of the soil burning back to youth
F#m                  Bm
It's just something that we found
    E                     A     A/G
But now it all thaws damp around you

D  Cadd9

        D
And the streets are dry and bare, but they're humming
    G                                   F#m
The rooftops where the air stops coming down
          Bm
To listen for the sound
       E              A   A/G
Of the tests that surround you

Abigail

switch to Capo 3
D
I said, "Abigal the shore is frozen!"
G                                     F#m
Our tar trails, they're all bulldozen now
    Bm                   E
Your bygone sounds are cidada-bound,
           A  A/G

D  Cadd9
They're so shrilling, and night-smoke tarry,
           A     A/G

D  Cadd9
You should spill them into the starry,
          A   A/G

D
They are children, and no one's sorry.
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