Ithaca

C Cmaj9/B Am F C Cmaj9/B F C Cmaj9/B We got the news Am F Ithaca got snow C Cmaj9/B Am F It was just that kind of day C Cmaj9/B Am All I know is that you've gone F And left us here below C Cmaj9/B Am F All I wish is that you'd stay C Cmaj9/B Am We leave this cursed city F C Cmaj9/B Am In the same way we come in F C We trace the roads Cmaj9/B Am F On our way out C Cmaj9/B Am We shed our certainties like clothes Am Cmaj9/B F Am Cmaj9/B F C Cmaj9/B Am F We thought this was our sacrifice C Cmaj9/B Am F Cmaj9/But the world knew otherwise C Cmaj9/B Am F And took you from us C Cmaj9/Before your time Cmaj9/B Am F Right before our eyes C Cmaj9/B We think we're walking home Am F Cmaj9/But you can't go there unless it wants you C Cmaj9/B Stand out on the streets Am F And still the destination haunts you C Cmaj9/B Am Is that where you are now? F C To have believed that's true is love any clearer now that we have love Am And we don't have you Am Cmaj9/B F Am Cmaj9/B F

Verse 3

C Cmaj9/B Am F It took this much to make me see C Cmaj9/B Am F Still I barely understand C Cmaj9/B Am F Love will always, always be larger C Cmaj9/B Am F C And different from our plans Cmaj9/B Am Love will never listen to us F And why should it? C Cmaj9/B Am F Love knows the score C Cmaj9/B Am F It builds better songs than we do C Cmaj9/B Am It sings a better metaphor Am Cmaj9 F