Andrew Savage — Thanksgiving Prayer

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[Verse 1]
   Em
My money melts like sugar in the shower when I don't sing
        B7                               A                             Em
Like a broken mockingbird that's put in pawn and traded in for diamond jewelry
      Em
That shines but only briefly like the golden heart of fall
          B7                                  A                                Em
Where the afternoons wane quickly and your breath floats in the final beams of evening


[Verse 2]
       Em
But I don't need dollars, pounds, or pesos to know I am rich
       B7                             A                               Em
I got people who allow themselves to love me and are insane enough to be loved
         Em
And it's funny to think how much time we quietly spend apart
           B7                           A
You don't need to be a witness to have witness
                             Em
And I'm with you now, that's certain


[Pre-Chorus]
Em              G                        B7
    Civilize me   from the wilderness of    constant mercy
     A7                Em
    Guarding a nursery of life
Em                        G                   B7
    That drifts inside me   like a caravan of    floating candles
     A7                          Em
    Trying not to capsize in the night


[Chorus]
             C          Em
    Listen close to the dark
               C            Em
    And write down what it says
              C             A
    Like its words are your own
              A9      C                          (Em)
    And dig a hole inside yourself and bury them there


[Instrumental]
Em | Em | Em | Em |


[Verse 2]
      Em
Thanksgiving Day is every day I write a song like this
       B7                                  A                             Em
When I get down on all four paws and drag myself by my own jaws for the feeling
      Em
And a wise woman once told me no one has a single voice
          B7                      A
You're a chorus harmonizing or opposing voices rising
       Em
Or a string of strangers waiting for their turn to speak
   Em
So every day just ask yourself who would you rather be
     B7                          A                            Em
A conductor or a cop or a night watchmen slowly strolling an asylum


[Pre-Chorus]
Em              G                        B7
    Civilize me   from the wilderness of    constant mercy
    A7                           Em
    Cut like a kite string in a storm
Em                        G                   B7
    That drifts inside me   like a caravan of    floating candles
    A7                      Em
    Huddled in clusters to keep warm


[Chorus]
           C           Em
    At the end of the hunt
              C            Em
    When you cut what you grow
              C             A
    Will you have what you want
                    A9       C                          (Em)
    And feast when fear is fleeced from the sheets of a ghost


[Instrumental]
Em | Em |
Em | Em | B7 | A | Em | Em |
Em | G  | B7 | A | Em |


[Chorus]
Em           C         Em
    When you open your eyes
             C          Em
    To the sound of the dawn
              C                 A
    Peel a dream off your brain
                A9          C                       Em
    A film that takes the shape of the surface you dry it on


[Outro]
Em           C           Em
    Like a Thanksgiving prayer
             C              Em
    You can taste it in the air