North Chords

  			Intro: Db  F  C  C 

Verso 1:
          F 
There's a place I'm gonna leave to 
F 
When all this questioning is through 
          Bb 
I'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North 
Bb 
Than my eyes have ever viewed 

             F 
And though I know that the thought proceeds me 
F 
I know that others seek it too 
            Bb 
But when I get where the needle leads me 
Bb                                                         F Am 
Well I swear, and I swear, you'll never lead me away again 

            F 
And in the time when the peace of islands 
F 
Was first by human hand disturbed 
                  Bb 
They built their houses and they said obedience 
Bb 
Was all the lives of men were worth 

            F 
And in the shadow of the temperance 
F 
They laid boundaries in the dirt 
              Bb 
And when the door had a narrow entrance 
Bb                                                                    F 
With their hands on their shirts they would pray for the non-believers 

 
Db 
And there's a place called North 
            Fm 
And they're gathering there to sing 
       C 
And I knock three times and beg them 
          Fm 
But they will not let me in 
Db 
And "Oh, my girl" they say 
            Fm 
"You're the carrier to no gain" 
      C 
But I lay, what I can, somewhere North of this and 
                             F Am 
Would you turn me away again? 

Verso 2: 
           F 
And do you go where the needle leads to 
F 
And when you get there will you change? 
              Bb 
Out where the nights are soft 
Bb 
And now you go because you think that Paradise should be tamed 

            F 
And how you live is by a map of humanity 
F 
And now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves 
          Bb 
But I've seen what you see, it looks different to me 
Bb                                                            F 
I see lights to the shore and all these hearts beating other rhythms 
         Bb 
Now they die to be born 
                                       F 
And all their mysteries are dying with them 


Db 
And there's a place called North 
            Fm 
And you're gathering there to sing 
       C 
And I knock three times and beg you 
         Fm 
But you will not let me in 
Db 
But though I love so hard 
            Fm 
Now I'm the carrier to this gate 
       C 
And I lay, what I can, somewhere North of us and 
                              Bb Fm 
Would you turn me away again? 

Bb Fm 

Db 
And would these winds would lift 
         Fm 
And they carry me to your door 
      C 
And I knock three times and tell you 
         Fm 
I can't help where I was born 
Db 
But don't I love enough 
      Fm 
Isn't holiness where it forms? 
      C 
If I take, what I have, to the North 
                                      Bb Fm 
Is there room on your piece of Heaven? 

Bb Fm 
Bb Fm 
Bb C 
                             F 
Oh would you turn me away again?