Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Conor continues to play this through the verse, but for easy reading I will just

have the lyrics and chords. He finger picks most of the song except in the chorus

when he hits the E he strums.

 Last Saturday I stood in your entry way

 That place where we used to wait

 For cars to carry us away

 Like once in this storm, they drove me and Justin home

 The music was just being born

 It was all I was longing for

 Now I’m on a plane

 Off singing my songs again, oh please don’t think ill of it

 Cause it’s the reason I exists

 But you, you’re the crutch of a cripple, You're the calm of a conscience

 You're the peace that I have found

 When all these voices talk too loud you are quietly reassuring me

 With the hands of a healer and the tongue of a teacher

 It’s your voice that I have known

 To be the first one on the phone. Yeah, you ran all the lights to the hospital

 So don't you say to me

That life's a trap

 The future is nothing but a tragedy

 'Cause I'll be out of that window

 Yeah, I'll start wishing to die again

 Just say we're not walking backwards, kid

 And show me to the door

 And I'll walk behind

 Out into the hot sunlight

 Where the world's very much alive

 Even when I close my eyes

Intro 1x

 Well, should I admit

 That my promise is counterfeit

 That I'm careless and childish

 And that's all I can hope to be

 And would you concede

 That I think only of myself

 I refuse everybody's help

 Who has been reaching out for me

 Well, you reach with the soul of a sailor and the swing of a miner

 You have cleared the rock away

 Leaving gold there in its place

 And it is more than anyone could claim

 Oh, with the sense of a banker and with the touch of a tailor

 You saved this life for me

 And you have sown it to beauty

 And I am grateful now and I will always be

 So would you sing with me

The song is all I know

 Some truths are told now only in a melody

 So I've been writing a new one

 Yeah, I've been taking my time with it

 It's gonna be so perfect

 It's gonna hold all of us inside of it

 You will see

 If you just add your harmony

 I think it would be complete

 And be worthy of singing

 Becomes a symphony

 Yeah, you're the cool of the water, you're the start of the summer

 Keep me still like an anchor. In a storm you're the cellar

 When I'm heavy with worry make me light as a feather

 When I'm deafened by anger you're the song I remember

 With the grace of a dancer and the strength of a pillar

 When I'm starving to suffer you just fill me with laughter

 You're a poet and a saint

 You are the only one I choose to imitate

 Oh, like the love of a father through the eye of a camera

 It's this picture I have seen

 We're on a sloping hill of green

E (intro 1x then end on A )

And you are walking there beside me