Bees

C/G G Am F/C C G C Gadd11/B Am F/C G C/G C/G C/G G Am There's a voice that pulls me stumbling through a symphony F/C C G And the less of it I need, the more I get C Gadd11/B Am 'til I'm swept up by the shape of all the centuries F/C G C/G Like an echo in the chambers of my chest C/G G Am I think she fears I'll be a servant to my history F/C C G Or worse, a slave to someone else's misplaced doubts C Gadd11/B Am So I try too hard to k**l what's out to k**l me F/C G C/G 'Til I'm blind and hiding in the lion's mouth F C/G And the words she aches to hear pour through my canyon F G And they're singing in the caverns of my limbs C Gadd11/B Am And though I do my best to try to understand them F/C G C/G They only follow me like vultures in the end C/G G Am F/C C G C Gadd11/B Am F/C G C/G C/G C/G G Am I once read that I should write something worth reading F/C C G Or I should do something worth writing about C Gadd11/B Am And as my ears they buzz like bees upon the ceiling F/C G C/G I start to pour a little more than I'm allowed C/G G Am I said our hearts know deeper seasons than our memories F/C C G She said "this harvest might sustain us for a year" C Gadd11/B Am And of all the thousand ways the world could tempt me F/C G C/G I've never met a better fighter than her fear F C/G So as I try to breathe the air that she is breathing F G And we dance a lightless dance upon my floor C Gadd11/B Am I am burning to tell her she's all I'm needing F/C G C/G But I'm drowned out by all the noise outside the door C/G G Am Carried by the current of the morning F/C C G Miles below the surface of the dawn C Gadd11/B Am This is not the place that I was born in F/C G C/G But it doesn't mean it's not the place where I belong