Chords for Joni Mitchell - The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)

[Bm] Let me speak
[G] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
[G] Let [D] me spit out my [G] bitterness _
Born [Em] _ [Bm] _ [G] _ _ [D] _
of grief [G] and nights without [D] sleep
and festering flesh
Do _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _
you [G] have eyes? _ _ _
_ [D] Can you see like mankind [Bm] sees?
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
Why [Bm] have you soured?
_ [D] And curdled me _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A]
Oh
You [G] tireless watcher _ _ _
_ _ [D] What have I done?
[Bm] _ _
_ _ _ That you [G] make everything [Bm] I dread and everything [G] I [D] fear _
_ Come true _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Once I was [Bm] blessed
I _
[G] _ [D] was awaited like a [Em] rain
_ Like _ _ _ [A] eyes [D] _ [Bm] for the blind
_ [D] Like feet for the lame
Kings _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ heard my [Bm] words _ _ _ _
And [D] they sought out my company
[Em] _
_ But _ _ [A] now the janitors [Bm] of _ [D] shadowland
Flick their brooms at me _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Oh
[A] You [Bm] tireless watcher
[G] What _
_ _ [D] _ have I done to [Em] you?
_ _ [D] _ That you make [G] _
[Bm] everything I dread [D] and everything I fear _
_ Come true
_ [A] [D] I'm tired of sorrow
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
I've lost all taste [Em] for life
[D] [G] Of all complaints
_ _ _ [A] Tell [Bm] me why do you [G] starve the faithful?
_ _ Why do [D] you crucify the [A] saints?
_ _ [Bm] Then you let the [G] wicked prosper
You [A] let the [Bm] children frisk [G] like deer
And [A] _
my loves are [Bm] dead or dying
[D] But they don't come near
We _ don't despise your chastening
_ _ God is for reckoning
_ Oh and [B] look who comes
[D] To _ _ console my deep distress
_ [Em] These _ _ _ [A] _ _
pompous [Bm] positions [G] _ [D] Oh The carelessness
Of all this ranting
All this whining
Filling our ears with trash _ Breathtaking [Bm] ignorance
_ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ Adding insult to [G] injury [Bm] _ They _ [Em] _ [A] come _
[Em] Blaming and [D] shaming Even good
And shattering me
This vain [A] man who [D] wishes to see
Why _ I'm but a [G] passage [A] Oh
You [Bm] tireless watcher
_ [G] What _ _ _ [D] have I done to [G] you?
_ _ [A] _ That [Em] you make [G] _
[Bm] everything I dread [D] and everything I fear _ _ _ _
Come true
We don't despise your chastening _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Already on a bed [D] of sighs [G] and screams
_ And _ [A] still [Bm] you torture me with [G] visions
_ You [D] give me _ terrifying dreams
[A] That [Bm] _
our eye was carried
_ From [G] the womb
[Bm] Straight [Em] to the grave
I [A] _ _
see the [D] diggers waiting
_ They're leaning on their space
And it's the sire of sorrow
As _ the sparks ascend Oh
_ [G] Where is hope? _ _
_ [D] While you're wondering
What went [Em]
wrong?
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Why [G] give me light
And then there's dark
Without a dawn
[D] You're sweet in your mouth
_ _ Hiding under the _
Show [Bm] your face
_ [G] What a lump of front [D] grave
Help me understand
_ [Em] What _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _
_ [G] is the reason
_ For your [D] heavy hand?
You stumble [A] in the shadow
_ [G] _ You [A] have no face
Was [G] it the sins [A] of my [Bm] youth?
_ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [D] What have I done [Bm] to you?
_ _ _ That [Em] you make [Bm] everything I dread [D] and everything I fear Come true
_ For your guilt must wane
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Everything [Bm] I dread
[D] And everything I fear _ Come true
That is the sire of _ sorrow
_ Why you [G] make everything [Bm] I dread
[D] And everything I fear _ Come true _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _