Verse 1: G C If I was a crow I'd fly the roads that wind between these places G C Over back lanes and weathervanes where creeks have left their traces D C D C Fruit trees planted long ago still bloom every other season D C D The fence won't keep the rabbits out, the gate's always open for some damn reason G C G C G C Follow and trace the coastline to the place that's worn and storied G C At the end of their chain the great lakes drain into the old St. Laurence D C D C Oh we've held a party or two, slept a million dreamers D C D G Who owed to find the coffee on, though the smoke is gone, the poetry lingers
Chorus: D C D G If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun D C D Em If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one D C D C Whatever you do, if you have to, oh use your thumb, just get here, just come Verse 2: G C If you come out at night you'll see the light of where to make the turnoff G C But do call ahead, we might be in bed writing with our clothes off D C D C Writing on the wallpaper, writing on the wall D C D G The poets die, a lullaby still whispers faintly in the room Chorus: D C D G If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun D C D Em If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one D G D C Whatever you do, if you have to, oh use your thumb, just get here, just come Bridge: Am D Am If you're too tucked away, and you can't see the sun D Am If you've something to say, but you ain't got no one D C If your hands are getting cold, you don't know what you've become Verse 3: G C If I was a crow I'd fly the roads that wind between these places G C Where poems were read and hungers fed and heatrs were warm and gracious D C D C Did we keep a geust book somwhere or are the records fading? D C D G We'll make a vow to start one now, there is still time, but it's not waiting