The Place I Live

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Em D Em D Em
      C
If I look
        Bm
or if I don't look
Em                         D
clouds are always passing over
              C
the place I live.
C
C
The place I live
         Bm
passing under
   Em                   D
my feet while my mind wanders
             C
in a sea of fog.
C
C
On a ridge
                  Bm
seeing through a hole in the fog
("A thought out of nowhere comes passing through")
          C
I say to myself
("I say to myself, like a voice on the wind")
Em
"Behold"
      D
("But I")
             C
but I see nothing.
Bm
Rocks and water and wood
             Em
not speaking to me.
("Left alone to wander above")
D
Slow and uneasy and alive.
              C
("The sea of fog")
C
            Bm
I mean the place lives
                 C
and clouds pass over
("sitting on a ridge and watching clouds pass over")
       Em
the landscape
              D
a blanket on stone
("where an ocean of glaciers rolled")
                 C
Land waves are rolling.
               Bm
("Through a fog, this is a brief life.")
              ("Short and cold, momentarily.")
                         ("A life as brief as the morning fog")
       C
Momentarily,
                  G
I come out from under.