Red River

Tuning: Down a half step G#5 G5 F5 G5 D# D# Cm This is what life is like on the ground G# I had a brother who was stationed up in northern hill county, D# A#5 no he never really came home D# Cm We drove out east to red river to see the high water flow G# That river was running just searching for an ocean D# A#5 The freedom he'd never known Cm That feeling you get when the wind is blowing like G# your whole life is starting over D# A#5 We made our peace there in the no mans land G#5 where we come from D# Ive been searching for Cm The waves that carried us home G# To the ocean we all came from D# A#5 Where we wont be returned D# Ive been searching for Cm The waves that carried us home G# To the ocean we all came from D# A#5 Where we wont be dissolved G# into one D# Cm Like a simple animal running on broken legs that night G# D# His voice was splintering rising, falling to a fate A#5 he'll never get out D# Cm From spokane all the way across montana out to the blood reserve G# Black levis jacket knocking them beers back on the D# A#5 bank of that river Cm G# Underneath September skies in south US border D# he made his peace there A#5 just after his boots G# filled up with water D# Ive been searching for Cm The waves that carried us home G# To the ocean we all came from D# A#5 Where we wont be returned D# Ive been searching for Cm The waves that carried us home G# To the ocean we all came from D# A#5 Where we wont be dissolved D# Waves will wash away Cm the misguided vision G# Glory in a battlefield D# A#5 of a thousand corpses D# Ive been searching for Cm The waves that carried us home G# To the ocean we all came from D# A#5 Where we wont be dissolved G# G5 F5 G5 D# Out of the rain