Tempest (Capo 4)

Life isn’t all that it should be
Heart’s not as strong as it would be
Where do you go when you’re not so bold?
When all of your cards - they start to fold?

Life isn’t all that it could be

Life isn’t all that it should be
No story as long as it could be
You asked for a fish and you got a stone
You traded your music for a groan

 Life isn’t all that it could be
 
Chords: 
Where do you go when the boat that you cast off at sunrise
Is tipped over, capsized

Where do you go when the tempest is glowering over, 
Towering and sober

What do you do? Where do you go?
When’s far is the shore
And water’s are cold

What do you do? Where do you go?
When you’re far from the shore

Life isn’t all that it could be
No man as full as he should be
But if weight turns to weight
And the free turn to fate
Then where do you go and what do you say?

That life isn’t all that it could be?

Chords: 
Where do you go when the boat that you cast off at sunrise
Is tipped over, capsized

Where do you go when the tempest is glowering over, 
Towering and sober

What do you do? Where do you go?
When’s far is the shore
And water’s are cold

What do you do? Where do you go?
When far’s the shore

Let the river take you home
Let the river take you home
Let the river take you home

Tempest (For Practice Only)

Turn My Rain Into Rivers (Capo 7)

Turn my rain into rivers
Turn my thunder into songs
If my clouds ever darken
May they soon water the woods of God

How could we love the rivers
But we can’t stand the rain?
What if they’re both one in the same?

Turn My Rain Into Rivers (For Practice Only)

Neptune (Capo 5)

Space, in the emptiness of space
I’m orbiting up there, 
Past lines that you can trace

Your bed, and no roof overhead
Come and build your spaceship
For the voyage you’ve prepared

Will you... 

Lift off in the early morning hours
When the town below is sleeping
When the church bell strikes the hour

Will you...

To Neptune, that is where I fled
To the lighthouse in the icefields
At the solar system's end

Above me, I see your glistening ship
Come down if you dare
Come down the way I went

Will you…

Will you come the way I went

Neptune (For Practice Only)

Goldcountry (Capo 5)

Verse 1:
I’m leaving home
Ma, for western lands
For the canyonland and the gold

I’m leaving home
For the rumble ever new
For the seething, silent truth
That nothing stays

Chorus:
Don’t stand on the porch, in the pouring rain
I’ll be back again, don’t you know.

Don’t sigh with the wind and the iron swing
Only two short years, nothing more

Verse 2:
I’m leaving home
Past the forests and the plains
Past the land beyond the train
Near the shore

I’m leaving home
To make a grand thing out of me
To make a seedling ‘to a tree
Just like you want

Chorus:
Don’t stand on the porch, in the pouring rain
I’ll be back again, don’t you know.


Don’t sigh with the wind and the iron swing
Only two short years, nothing more

Verse 3:
The bar’s a friend
but the nights don’t know my name
And this piano seems to play
Only Chopin

The days are long
The endless sifting in the pan
To see a shine among the sand
And dirt and me

Chorus:
Don’t stand on the porch, in the pouring rain
I’ll be back again, don’t you know.


Don’t sigh with the wind and the iron swing
Only two short years, nothing more

Verse 4:
I left my home
Now a year ago
And the time ain’t yielded
Nothing more

Hadn’t heard a thing
Till the telegraph rang
And the preacher sent
You were gone

Chorus:
I’ll stand on the porch, in the pouring rain
I’m back again, back at home


I’ll sigh with the wind and the iron swing
Because of two short years, nothing more

I left my home
Ma, for western lands
For the canyonland and the gold

I left my home
For the rumble ever new
For the seething, silent truth
That nothing stays

Goldcountry (For Practice Only)

Beyond Words (Capo 7)

Do you ever find
Sometimes you just don’t have the words
To say what’s on your mind
To speak the message that you’ve heard
When you see her there, the world around her cast aside
Do you? Do you?

Chorus:
I mean much more than I say
I mean much more than you hear
Cause words are fragile things
And you are much truer than they
You are the meaning
To the beautiful words I can’t find
What’s the purpose of singing
When you are the song on my mind, the song on my mind

Verse 2
Do you ever find
Sometimes you just don’t have the words
Your page can’t bear the rhyme
And she’s the symphony you heard

And she is all you need, 
and with her life can now begin
Do you, do you?

Chorus:
I mean much more than I say
I mean much more than you hear
Cause words are fragile things
And you are much truer than they
You are the meaning
To the beautiful words I can’t find
What’s the purpose of singing
When you are the song on my mind, the song on my mind

Bridge 1:
Don’t lie, don’t give in,
Remember the words you’ve written

Pray the prayer, dare to dare,
She's somewhere out there, she's somewhere out there 

Bridge 2/outro:
Don’t lie, don’t give in,
She's all the words you’d written

You prayed the prayer, you've dared to dare,
She's right here, she's right here

Beyond Words (For Practice Only)

Fire Away (Capo 3)

Fire away
Say what you’ve got to say
It’s okay if you don’t love me
Like your movies on the TV

Fire away
Stay when you’ve got to stay
But there’s no set to hem you in
Or lines that you’ve been given

They’re not real
Not like me and you

They don’t feel
All the feelings we do

So fire away
Lay where you got to lay
Put your head upon my chest
No camera’s watch you rest

Fire away
Be brave when you need to be brave
Come and say that you don’t love me
Like your movies on the TV

‘Cause they’re not real
Not like me and you

They don’t feel
All the feelings we do

Fire Away (For Practice Only)

The Mariner's Song (Capo 3)

I met a man the other day
Who had lost something along his way
But no one knew what
He only knew it seemed like yesterday

He said his name and took his place
I asked him if he knew my face
He didn’t know what to say
And neither did I

I recognized his shoes
I recognized his pants
I recognized that look
That mariner’s glance

He said
I remember how she danced beneath the ocean in towers made of glass
And the schooner, flowed o’er the brine
Past the coral and I was out of time
Will you find her, will you find Undine?

I look him steady in the face
His thoughts now distant from this place
This sailor once who rode the sea

Reduced to rags to talk about
A water nymph seen over the bows
Somewhere in the eastern sea

I recognized his shoes
I recognized his pants
I recognized that look
That mariner’s glance

He said
I remember how she danced beneath the ocean in towers made of glass
And the schooner, flowed o’er the brine
Past the coral and I was out of time
Will you find her, will you find Undine?

Why not try to let her go? 
It’s letting go your very soul!
For I leave her she will die

So all that comforts me is now
Her memory from beyond the prow
Do you know the man I am?

Don’t you recognize my shoes, 
Don’t you recognize my pants
If you ever see her you will be what I am

So you’ll remember how how she danced beneath the ocean in towers made of glass
And the schooner, flow o’er the brine
Past the coral and you’ll be out of time
Will you find her, will you find Undine?

The Mariners Song (For Practice Only)

You (Capo 8)

Verse 1:
It’s you, oh it’s you
It’s always been you
A ghost in the hall
A presence in my room

And you’ve been here for far too long
And your haunts have all come undone

Verse 2:
It’s you, oh it’s you
You’re somewhere in my gloom
Drawing pictures on the walls
Of white dresses and balloons

And you’ve stayed here for far too long
Why is your memory all that I own?

Chorus:
You became my muse
Or the dream I used
To redeem myself
From the life I’d lose

And so I think
It’s time I wake from sleep
But now where to go
My dreams are all I’ve known

Verse 3: 
It’s you, oh it’s you 
It’s always been you
Beneath the boughs in mid-summer
These peach trees and the moon

You’ve been here far too long
My orchards are overgrown

Chorus:
You became my muse
Or the dream I used
To redeem myself
From the life I’d lose

And so I think
It’s time I wake from sleep
But now where to go
My dreams are all I’ve known

Verse 4:
It’s you, oh it’s you
It’s always been you 
Set the grounds here on fire
Get the trees roughly hewn

You’ve been here far too long
Your memory isn’t worth what I now own

Chorus:
You became my muse
Or the dream I used
To redeem myself
From the life I knew

And so I think
It’s time I wake from sleep
But now where to go
My dreams are all I’ve known

You (For Practice Only)

Reverie (Capo 4)

Verse 1: 
She is good and she is fine
But when she’s gone she’s not as kind
I know.. I know…

She is truth in better times
But when she’s gone I choose my lies
I know… I know...

Verse 2:
She is heat and she is fire
To warm my hands or light my pyre
I know.. I know…

Either way I burn and burn
Will I disappear
Or will I learn?
I know… I know


Bridge:
Don’t you think
I should let her go?
What do you think?
Should I let her go?

Chorus:
Reverie, reverie,
Are you good for me?
Reverie, reverie
Are you good for me?

Verse 3:
She is good and she is fine
But when she’s gone she’s not as kind
I know.. I know…

She is food and she is wine
But only ghosts have come to dine
I know… I know…

Bridge:
Don’t you think
I should let her go?
What do you think?
Should I let her go?

Chorus:
Reverie, reverie,
Are you good for me?
Reverie, reverie
Are you good for me?

Allen Abbott