Paint Or Pollen

Chords

Standard

# Intro
G   Bm  Dm  C   C   G   D   D
G   Bm  Dm  C   C   G   D   G   G

# Verse 1
G                 Bm
Don't move an inch
Dm           C
listen for a singing
C               G                    D        D
hitting in your bones like they were forts

# Verse 2
      G           Bm
If you hear what I hear
Dm             C
don't just sit there
      C              G
we are only strumming water
       D             C        C
on this most unlikely court

# Verse 3
       G              Bm
You got blown shore to shore
Dm            C
not quite sailing
C             G              D      D
riding on the trade-winds of age

# Chorus 1
G          Bm
Things blow in
Em             C
Don't just cast them
G           D                G       G
say it now, what you want to stay

# Interlude:
G   Bm  Em  Em  C   C*

# Verse 4
     G           Bm
I was once on a long boat
Dm               C
star mapping the night roots
C              G
lightening the load
       D       D
just in case

# Chorus 2
  G       Bm      Em     C
But things float in to be taken
  G                 D                 G    G
if you don't know by now what will stay

# Break Part 1
                G
So don't move an inch
            Em
don't move a single second
         C                 C               D           D
until the shade behind your thoughts is not confused
                G
cause I felt your itch
          Em
I know the scent as well as any

# Break Part 2
             C
clotting your garden
            C
of paints or pollen
             D
brick in your mortar
         D
petals to soak in
      C
on the cracks
          C
thicker or finer
            D
milk in your water
             D
black in your primer
            C
wood in your brush
             C
Now I am your cloth
            D
whatever you want
            D
the best is upon us
C                  C
It's a finicky muse 
         D            D
with only potential

# Outro
  G  Bm
to choose
  G  Bm
to choose
G   Bm   G   Bm 

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