Lucy Kaplansky - Still life

Note: the song gets its airy feeling by using these "incomplete" ^C and ^Am chords: C: 030020 Am: 002200 Fmaj7: 10321x

^CSadness is a little boy ^Amlooking Out the ^Cwindow high above a ^Amcity Counting ^Emstatues of people on the ^Fmaj7buildings ^EmThinking that the people are ^Fmaj7forever

He wants his ^Cfather to be a ^Amstatue On the ^Crooftop of his fatherless ^Amhome So that ^Emhe can always ^Fmaj7see him So that ^Emhe will never ^Fmaj7leave him

Late at ^Cnight in the darkness of his ^Amdreaming His father's ^Cwords fall down in a ^Amrain storm And the ^Emwords become hands that will ^Fmaj7guide him Through his ^Emlife in the world just be^Fmaj7ginning

^CYou cannot ^Glive in bronze or ^Fmaj7stone ^CMake your ^Glife in flesh and ^Fmaj7bone

^CStranded is a man no longer ^Amsearching For the ^Clife had hoped for and i^Ammagined Courting ^Emfear instead of A ^Fmaj7woman Holding ^Emsorrow as his only com^Fmaj7panion

Counting ^Cdays like his money in the ^Ammarkets And watching ^Clife from the window in his ^Amoffice Maybe ^Emone day I'll have the ^Fmaj7courage Maybe ^Emone day I'll sail across the ^Fmaj7ocean

But I feel ^Csafe in the light of my com^Amputer ^CThis is how I choose to ^Amlive Fixed in ^Emstone a man will ^Fmaj7wither Running ^Emwaters are the life of the ^Fmaj7river

^CYou cannot ^Glive in bronze or ^Fmaj7stone ^CMake your ^Glife in flesh and ^Fmaj7bone ^GRemember ^Cme

^CFrightened is an old man ^Amlimping Through the ^Cpark on a dark December ^Amday He stands ^Emfrozen at the base of a ^Fmaj7statue And he ^Emhopes for a warm hand to ^Fmaj7help him

To^Cnight he will dream that he is ^Amflying Over ^Cbanks of a river he re^Ammembers His father's ^Emvoice will echo all a^Fmaj7round him His father's ^Emhands will hold him in the ^Fmaj7sky

^CNow I can sail across the ^Amocean ^CNow I will sail across the ^Amocean ^EmNow I am sailing across the ^Fmaj7ocean

^CI cannot ^Glive in bronze or ^Fmaj7stone ^CI must ^Glive as flesh and ^Fmaj7bone ^GRemember ^Cme Remember me Remember me