Lay Of The Last Survivor

verse 1 D She went out and found A G Her father face down on the ground A Out in the cold verse 2 D She walked her way around A G A hill with the sun sinking down A Into the snow verse 3 Em G D A All the whitecaps of the waves slap Em G Like last hand claps A Em And the dark water dies in a crash D Is sucked back with a moan A And the smoke on the coast verse 4 Em Oh, piled fathers G A Soft, sighing daughters Em G A Where does it go? Instrumental D Verse 5 D It's a dream, now A I'll describe G A Let your mind drift on down, like so Verse 6 D To when the world was young A G A big sky, blue of a dead bachelor's tongue A A new bloom on the rose Interlude Em G So some line someone told says D A Even light can get old Verse 7 Em Oh, slobbering lovers G Drink-clinking brothers A Em G A x3 They don't have to tell us, 'cause we know Instrumental D Verse 8 D What a way down A G What a ride, what a slide spin-around A What a life to have known Verse 9 D What a time A G And how I was singing out in a crowd A Of the thousand most frightening faces I've known verse 10 Em G And when the lighthouse D A Lending us sight finally went out Em G What a fright we felt A In that night verse 11 Em Friends just shout it out D All the whys and don't knows A All the cries in our throats Em G And how right we felt verse 12 D With our eyes tightly closed A Holding something we broke Em And then whimpering sisters G Sobbing well-wishers A It's over Outro D Just let my hand go