You As You Were

F# D#m A#m B quietly F# When you fall at the rocks At the bend at the river D#m With the blood from your nose Running hard on your fingers A#m B And through the rest of your life F# D#m A#m B F# The electric charge Of a change in the weather D#m You were touching my arm You were holding a feather A#m B And then I opened my eyes D#m As the World goes racing, suddenly changed C# As the shock of the axe, it leaves you trembling D#m Like a busting shell in the small of your back C# Or a job that's hard on the cast of your little lie And an animal life was surging away F# And you were back on the road Through the worst of the Winter D#m Through the Valley of Lies Passing through like an arrow F# Oh, if your vision collapsed And a storm from the river D#m Like a golden medalion Clutching tight in your fingers A#m But on the slope of the edge B Will you recover your life F# You could stand on the back of a shuddering beam D#m With a pistol firing shots into the air F# You could run in the blood of the Sun's hard rays D#m You could drive the mountains down into the bay A#m Or go back to the East where it's all so civilized B Where I was born to the life F# But I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life D#m I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life I am leaving the life A#m B F# I am leaving