Chords for Aoife O'Donovan-Tears of Healing Rain/ After the Rain

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_ [F] _ _ [Am] [C] I _ [G] _ _
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[Gm] [C] will lay this burden down That [F] I have carried [C] for so long
_ [Am] My own hand [F] placed this mark [C] upon my brow [G] _ _ [Dm] Don't need [F] to wear it now
[C] I will water this thirsty heart [F] With _ [G] tears of [C] healing pain
_ [F] I'll learn to lay this [G] burden [C] down _ _ [G] And [F] never shoulder it again
_ [C] Never again _ I'll _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
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[C] walk a tightrope
_ _ [F] Stretched between my [Am] hope and darkest fear _ And [C] though I look to find
[F] Too often I've been [C] blind when love drew near
_ _ [G] I try to hold [F] life lightly [G] Yet I step with a [Dm] heavy train
[G] On this road [F] which I've [C] chosen [G] Down which I was led
[Am] [G] I [C] will lay this burden down [G] That [F] I have carried for [C] so long
_ _ [Am] My own hand placed [Fm] this [C] mark upon my brow [G] _ [Dm] Don't need to [F] wear it now
[C] [G] I [C] will water [G] this [C] thirsty heart [Em] [F] With _ tears [C] of healing pain
I'll [F] learn to lay [G] this burden [C] down _ _
[G] And [Am] never shoulder [F] it again
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Never again
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_ _ _ I seek a wisdom _
_ [F] Someday I'll learn from the trees that [C] grace this land _
_ _ From the wounds that sag [F] From the scattered leaves that [C] fly I'll understand
[Am] How _ [G] they give [F] themselves so gently [Am]
[G] To the breeze [Dm] that guides them on
[G] To the hollows [F] where they crumble [G] back to earth [C] and [G] are gone _ _ _ _
_ [C] I will lay this burden down [D] That I have [C] carried for so long
[G] _ [Em] My [C] own hand [F] placed this mark [C] upon my brow [G] _ [F] Don't need to wear it now _ _ _ _
[C] I will water this thirsty heart With _ tears of healing pain
_ [G] I'll learn [F] to lay this [C] burden down _ [F] _ [G] And [Am] never [F] shoulder it again
[C] Never again _ _
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_ _ [C] I dreamed always A wake as new life plays across your sleeping [G] face _
[C] _ And as with a light healed wound Something distant yet enormous launched a [G] beam
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Outside our window _ [G] Branches bow their heads [C] with snow from last night's [G] storm
[C] Like _ [Am] _
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they're saying
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[C] _ _ [F] _ [C] _ [G] _ [D] Thanks
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