You As You Were

When you [E]fall at the rocks

At the bend at the river
With the [Abm]blood from your nose

Running hard on your fingers
And through [B]the rest of your li[A]fe

[E] [Abm] [B] [A]

The el[E]ectric charge

Of a change in the weather
You were [Abm]touching my arm

You were holding a feather
And then I [B]opened my eyes   [A]

As the [C#m]World goes racing, suddenly changed
As the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling[B]
Like a [C#m]busting shell in the small of your back
Or a job that's hard on the cast of your little lie [B]

And an animal life was surging away

And you were [E]back on the road

Through the worst of the Winter
Through the[Abm] Valley of Lies

Passing through like an arrow

Oh , if your [E]vision collapsed

And a storm from the river
Like a [Abm]golden medalion

Clutching tight in your fingers
But on the [B]slope of the edge
Will you [A]recover your life

You could [E]stand on the back of a shuddering beam
With a pistol firing shots into the [Abm]air
You could [E]run in the blood of the Sun's hard rays
You could drive the mountains down into the [Abm]bay
Or go back to the East where it's all so civ[B]ilized
Where I was [A]born to the life

But I am [E]leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life
I am [Abm]leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life

I am leaving the life
I am [B]leaving   [A]          [E]