Capo on 2nd fret


         E5
When you fall at the rocks

At the bend at the river
         Ab5
With the blood from your nose

Running hard on your fingers
            B5                  A5
And through the rest of your life


E5 Ab5 B5 A5


      E5
The electric charge

Of a change in the weather
         Ab5
You were touching my arm

You were holding a feather
           B5                A5
And then I opened my eyes


       C#5
As the World goes racing, suddenly changed
                                                B5
As the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling
       C#5
Like a busting shell in the small of your back
                                                    B5
Or a job that's hard on the cast of your little lie

And an animal life was surging away


             E5
And you were back on the road

Through the worst of the Winter
           Ab5
Through the Valley of Lies

Passing through like an arrow


             E5
Oh , if your vision collapsed

And a storm from the river
       Ab5
Like a golden medalion

Clutching tight in your fingers
           B5
But on the slope of the edge
         A5
Will you recover your life


          E5
You could stand on the back of a shuddering beam
                                    Ab5
With a pistol firing shots into the air
          E5
You could run in the blood of the Sun's hard rays
                                            Ab5
You could drive the mountains down into the bay
                                            B5                   
Or go back to the East where it's all so civilized
            A5
Where I was born to the life


         E5
But I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life
     Ab5
I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life
     B5         A5      E5
I am leaving