• Song:

    Adventures In Solitude

  • Artist:

    New Pornographers

  • Album:

    Challengers

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I put brackets around chords where the song stays on
the same chord through two measures, but doesn’t emphasize it the
second time.  Thanks for the lyric emails, I updated them, 
but the end still seems a little off.

C D G C C D G

[G]              C              D   
       Balancing on one wounded wing
             G                   C
Circling the edge of the never ending
                C                     D                    G       [G]
The best of the vanished marvels have gathered inside your door
          C                       D
More than begin, but less than forget
           G                          C
But spirit born from the not happened yet
          C                  D                          G      [G]
Gathering there to pay off a debt brought back from the wars
                C       D                  G       C
We thought we lost you     We thought we lost you
                C        D             G      [G]
We thought we lost you       Welcome back

C D G [G]
             C                          D
Sleeping for years pick through what is left
                        G                        C
Through the pieces that fell and rose from the depth
                      C             D            G        [G]
From the rain water well deep as a secret nobody knows
             C                   D
Less than forget but more than begun
                     G             C
These adventures in solitude never done
                    C                    D                      G   [G]
To the names of our wounds we send the same blood back from the wars
                C       D                  G       C
We thought we lost you     We thought we lost you
                C        D                    G     [G]
We thought we lost you       It will all come back

C D G C C D G [G]

           Bm              Em        D
I know you want to run far away from one more,
C                             G
    and that it’s coming at a bad time
          Bm                    Em    D   C
some cold place, some countless ways
C                   G
  For all we know

           Bm                      Em         D
I know you need to breathe through come back, come to
C                      G
  but it’s coming at a bad time
	   Bm                       Em    D 
Some how a watch from the tangle of days
C                  G
  For all we know

C D G C C D G [G]

           Bm              Em        D
I know you want to run far away from one more,
C                             G
    and that it’s coming at a bad time
          Bm                   Em    D   C
some cold race, some countless ways
C                   G
  For all we know

           Bm                      Em         D
I know you want to breathe through come back, come to
C                      G
  but it’s coming at a bad time
	    Bm                   Em    D 
old scarred face from survivor's guilt
C                  G
  For all we know



Extra notes:

If you play the piano, I think the verses use C 2nd inversion, 
D 2nd inversion, and G 1st inversion.  Start with middle C in the 
middle and it should fall into place.

Someone’s quietly plucking a guitar in the intro and
first verse (that I can hear), and here’s what s/he’s playing.

C          D             G          C (or [G] second time)
-------------------------------------------------
---1--1-3--3---3------------0--0-3-----1---------
0---0--0-----------------0---0--0---0------------  repeat
----------------4-2-4-------------------4-2-4-2--
----------------------0--------------------------
-------------------------------------------------


Sometimes the guitar does this
 
               (this part quieter)
--5-7-5-3-2-3----3-7-5)-
---------------(3-------
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