Standard tuning
Capo 5
Em C G
so easily I forgot lifting
Em C G
the sandbox in Arizona and catching
Em C G
the geckos and keeping them as pets
Em C G
in a halloween candy's jack-o-lantern
Am G
their tails would fall clear from their bodies
Am
and we'd shriek and we'd run from them
Em C G
keep on playing
Em C G
playing
Em C G
my sister
Em C G
she is with me
Em C G
even when we are apart
Em C G
we were wading through the water
Em C G
flashlights flickering in the dark
Am G
climbing the laundry post in the tomato garden
Am G
spying on the neighbors swimming
Em C G
laughing
Em C G
we were laughing
Em C G
that night
Em C G
in Maine I met my best friend
Em C G
talking til 7am
Em C G
realizing we were both afraid of the notion
Em C G
of having our brains be in the body of a whale
Am G
in the ocean deep where the light don't reach
Am
and I loved him instantly
Em C G
I knew we would keep talking
Em C G
talking
Em C G
on that drive
Em C G
up the winding mountain roads
Em C G
from Hudson to Vermont in the season's first
Em C G
snow, the boys asleep in the back of the car
Em C G
we were in the front we were singing along
Am G
to every word of the songs that helped make us who we are
Am
at the top of our lungs
Em C G
singing
Em C G
singing
Em C G
my mother
Em C G
my mother she keeps a journal
Em C G
of her childhood memories as they return
Em C G
my favorite's the story recounting when she
Em C G
saw an eagle with a fish in its mouth
Em C G
she was ten and she wrote it down
Em C G
there's a sweetness in us that lives long past the dust
Em C G
on our eyes once our eyes finally close
Em C G (x2)
