Capo 4th fret
Standard (EADGBE)
You were the mother who said to her child
"You bring it up slowly"
All of these buoys, they mark the traps
and you were the only
Woman for fifty miles
who could lift something like that
You'd cook them up in seawater
soon as you got back
Chorus
Reva, thereafter
Up to the rafters
Up through the plaster
Up through the highest beams, I will
Sing of your wonder
In a voice like thunder
Sometimes your heart bursts at its seams
The sound of a nighttime passing train
wakes me from a slumber
The creeping of time keeps me awake
won't let me go under
But sometimes forgetting is all you need
...................... stay on again
to get some sleep
Why have you left here,
and what does it mean for me?
Chorus
You wrote the letters one by one
into the setting of the sun
Tell me, what was it like
to send yourself
into the light that night?