Still Life
Lucy KaplanskyVersion1
90
Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
Note: the song gets its airy feeling by using these "incomplete" and chords:
Sadness is a little boy looking
Out the window high above a city
Counting statues of people on the buildings
Thinking that the people are forever
He wants his father to be a statue
On the rooftop of his fatherless home
So that he can always see him
So that he will never leave him
Late at night in the darkness of his dreaming
His father's words fall down in a rain storm
And the words become hands that will guide him
Through his life in the world just be ginning
You cannot live in bronze or stone
Make your life in flesh and bone
Stranded is a man no longer searching
For the life had hoped for and i magined
Courting fear instead of woman
Holding sorrow as his only com panion
Counting days like his money in the markets
And watching life from the window in his office
Maybe one day I'll have the courage
Maybe one day I'll sail across the ocean
But I feel safe in the light of my com puter
This is how I choose to live
Fixed in stone a man will wither
Running waters are the life of the river
You cannot live in bronze or stone
Make your life in flesh and bone
Remember me
Frightened is an old man limping
Through the park on a dark December day
He stands frozen at the base of a statue
And he hopes for a warm hand to help him
To night he will dream that he is flying
Over banks of a river he re members
His father's voice will echo all a round him
His father's hands will hold him in the sky
Now I can sail across the ocean
Now I will sail across the ocean
Now I am sailing across the ocean
I cannot live in bronze or stone
I must live as flesh and bone
Remember me
Remember me
Remember me
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Readable chord sheet for Still Life by Lucy Kaplansky
Note: the song gets its airy feeling by using these "incomplete" [C] and [Am] chords: [C] Sadness is a little boy [Am] looking Out the [C] window high above a [Am] city Counting [Em] statues of people on the [Fmaj7] buildings [Em] Thinking that the people are [Fmaj7] forever He wants his [C] father to be a [Am] statue On the [C] rooftop of his fatherless [Am] home So that [Em] he can always [Fmaj7] see him So that [Em] he will never [Fmaj7] leave him Late at [C] night in the darkness of his [Am] dreaming His father's [C] words fall down in a [Am] rain storm And the [Em] words become hands that will [Fmaj7] guide him Through his [Em] life in the world just be [Fmaj7] ginning [C] You cannot [G] live in bronze or [Fmaj7] stone [C] Make your [G] life in flesh and [Fmaj7] bone [C] Stranded is a man no longer [Am] searching For the [C] life had hoped for and i [Am] magined Courting [Em] fear instead of [A] [Fmaj7] woman Holding [Em] sorrow as his only com [Fmaj7] panion Counting [C] days like his money in the [Am] markets And watching [C] life from the window in his [Am] office Maybe [Em] one day I'll have the [Fmaj7] courage Maybe [Em] one day I'll sail across the [Fmaj7] ocean But I feel [C] safe in the light of my com [Am] puter [C] This is how I choose to [Am] live Fixed in [Em] stone a man will [Fmaj7] wither Running [Em] waters are the life of the [Fmaj7] river [C] You cannot [G] live in bronze or [Fmaj7] stone [C] Make your [G] life in flesh and [Fmaj7] bone [G] Remember [C] me [C] Frightened is an old man [Am] limping Through the [C] park on a dark December [Am] day He stands [Em] frozen at the base of a [Fmaj7] statue And he [Em] hopes for a warm hand to [Fmaj7] help him To [C] night he will dream that he is [Am] flying Over [C] banks of a river he re [Am] members His father's [Em] voice will echo all a [Fmaj7] round him His father's [Em] hands will hold him in the [Fmaj7] sky [C] Now I can sail across the [Am] ocean [C] Now I will sail across the [Am] ocean [Em] Now I am sailing across the [Fmaj7] ocean [C] I cannot [G] live in bronze or [Fmaj7] stone [C] I must [G] live as flesh and [Fmaj7] bone [G] Remember [C] me Remember me Remember me