Grand Dark Feeling Of Emptiness

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 Over the hill like always you know Were Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe And they beat and broke me hard and slow 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 And was it a friend that turned me loose? Or was it a girl come to baste my goose? Or was it my great God who laid on his finger And started my clock anew? Ah no, it was rain, ah no, it was gunning It was point break and buckle and singing and cunning That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running 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 But kids I've had, and they are sung Upon folks' ears my babes are hung And rhythmically they live among And grow but don't get old Not in a box, not in a void Not if their voice is never heard Nor if no-one repeats a word 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