From Silver Lake - Jackson Browne (CD: Saturate Before Using)
Intro:
|D |G |D |G/A |
G/AD
Did you see our brother
AsusA
He was here the other day
F#mBmEm
But he only came to say that he was leaving
AD
Did you see his lady
AsusA
She was looking where he'd gone
F#mBmEm
But she wasn't letting on that she was grieving
AD
She's bound to go
GAD
Perhaps she'll find him waiting for his boat in some city far away
AGDmF#
She's bound to go
AsusDAsusA
Lately I remember afternoons of smoke and wine
F#mBmEm
There was nothing we could find but peace and pleasure
AD
And with a smile he told me
AsusAF#mBmEm
That he wanted just to be on his way across the sea no man can measure
AD
He won't be back,
GAD
And the sun may find him sleeping in the dust of some ruin far away
AGDmF#
He won't be back
GD
Early today as I watched while the skyline was shaking
Asus
I heard a rumbling
GD
Early today the mechanical city was waking
Asus
And I ran out stumbling, mumbling
AsusA
Out through the laughter of children and dogs
AD
Did you see our brother
AsusA
He was here the other day
F#mBmEm
But he only came to say that he can't breathe here
AD
Did you see his lady
AsusA
She was reaching for his hand
F#mBmEm
Just as if to tell her man that she can't either
AD
They're bound to go
GAD
And the sun may find me running after them, seeing something far away
AGDmF#
We won't be back
.....Someone who had been away
.....Suddenly came back today
.....And I allowed him home today into my mind
.....For a moment face to face
.....Evil packed upon the place
.....Long ago he meant to stay out there this time
.....Oh, what do you know
.....The love that I've been feeling
.....The past is healing so slow
.....By tomorrow, gone from sorrow.
Transcribed by Gerard Koot (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ? june 2008
Email: gerardkoot@hotmail.com