Chords: A, A/D*, F#m, E, D
e |0
B |3                          *It's kind of just a hammer-on the B string from an A chord.
G |2
D |2
A |0
E |0


A A/D A  A/D(x2)
A                A/D              A               A/D
To capture for a lifetime what in moments catches on
A         A/D           F#m            E
To put to paper what it was about that song
F#m               E                 A               D
Homemade magnetic tapes for all the people that you love
      F#m      E           A              D                     E
For purity, or bravery, or grace, or just because that?s what a heart does
           D
The echoes encompassing us!

A A/D A A/D (x2)
F#m E

  A              A/D                A                A/D
I feel a strange prehension that is much bigger than me
   A            A/D     F#m           E
A shadow falls ahead so far I fail to see
          F#m              E             A            D
And so at times I?d like a map to what I cannot comprehend
      F#m     E                 A             D
But infinite cartographer, your trusted magic pen
         A               D       E
Can only ink against the edge of understanding!
                 A          D                E
Yeah, you always draw me on along, questions compounding

    A          A/D                    A            A/D
But family and friends their thoughts therein will interject
     A               A/D                 F#m         E 
And, oh, to feel the strength in all the places they connect
        F#m                 E               A                D
There?s time?s we?ve spoken cryptically and times we?ve been direct
F#m                   E           A                       D
Sometimes we speak so cyclically, sometimes just hold our breath and see
     A                 D         E
that presence sets the stage for conversation!
          A                 D            E
Or simply says what it must say with its intention!

A A/D A A/D (x2)
F#m E

A         A/D              A               A/D
And so we start to feel we shouldn?t be so scared
   A        A/D                  F#m               D
We see this understanding as the only thing that?s there
        F#m               E             A                 D
There?s feelings you must overcome, and feelings you must use,
    F#m               E                  A              E
And strengthened by a timeless love that you must never lose

             A            D          E
It?s born of ancestry and poetry and chemistry!
A                 D          E
Horizon lines and volume and infinity!

A A/D A A/D (x2)
F#m E

A          A/D      A                 A/D
For now we focus on whatever comes to mind
A      A/D                   F#m            E
A slow progression, though a tender one, we find
    F#m           E             A    D
The sun against a face some hot Ohio afternoon
  F#m               E               A            D
A timeless sense of place among the relics in my room
      A             D          E
A low hanging amber melon of a moon.
       A                  D                 E
We can stop and sleep and plan the next day soon.

E and end on A...

P.S. This was my first... chording(?) of someone else's song, and it was fun.
If someone wants to do the lead that isn't really lead since it's in the 
background, that'd be cool... you'd be a cool person... people would look at you 
and say, "Wow; that guy's cool! How cool that I got to see such a cool guy."
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