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

Let me speak, [G] let _ _ _
_ [D] me spit out my [Bm] bitterness _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ Born of [G] grief and nights without [D] sleep _
And thirsting flesh
Do _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
[G] you have eyes? _ _ _ _
[D] Can you see like [Em] mankind sees?
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Why [Bm] have you soured _ [D] and curdled me? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Oh, [A] _
[Bm] you tireless [G] watcher _ _ _
_ [D] What have I [Em] done to you?
_ [G] _ _ Now you make [Bm] everything I dread
[D] And everything I fear _ _
_ Come true _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[G] Once I was blessed _ _ _
[D] I was _ awaited [Em] like rain _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] _ _
[G] Like eyes for the blind
_ [D] Like feet for the lame
_ _ Kings _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
heard my words
_ _ _ [D] _
And they sought out my [Em] company _
_ [Bm] But now [A] _ the janitors [Bm] of Shadowland
[D] _ Look their names at me _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [A] Oh, you [Bm] tireless _ watcher _ _ _
[D] _ _ What have I [Em] done to you?
_ _ [Bm] Now you [G] make [Bm] everything I dread
[A] And everything I [D] fear _ Come true
Man is desired for _ long
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
I've lost all taste [D] for life
[G] I'm all complaints
_ _ Tell me, why do you starve the faithful?
Why [D] do you crucify [A] the saints?
_ [Bm] And you let the wicked prosper
_ You [Em] let their children thirst like deer
[G] And [A] _ my loves are [Bm] dead or dying
_ [D] But they don't come near
We don't despise the chastening
_ God [A] is correcting you [G] all
And look who comes _ _ _
[D] To counsel my [Bm] deepest dress
_ _ _ For [A] all these [D]
harmless [Bm] physicians
_ _ [D] _ Of carelessness
For all this frantic, _ heartless wind
_ Filling our ears with trash
[G] _
Breathtaking ignorance _ _ _ _ _
[D] Adding insult to [Bm] injury _
_ _ _ They [A] come blaming [Bm] and shaming _ [D] Shattering me
This pain that wishes to be wise
Man [G] borrows it as a [A] fool
Oh, you [Bm] tireless [G] watcher _ _ _ _
_ [D] What have I done [Em] to you?
_ _ [D] That you [G] make [Bm] everything I dread
[A] And everything I [D] fear
Come true
We don't despise your chastening
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
Already on a bed of [G] sighs and screams
And _ still [Bm] you torture me with [G] visions
_ You [D] give me tiring _ [A] _ dreams
_ [Bm] _ Better I was carried
[Em] From the womb straight to the grave
[Bm] _ _ [A] _ I see the [Bm] diggers waiting
_ [D] They're leaning on their spades
Man is the sire of sorrow _
_ Sure as the sparks [A] are sent _
Where is hope? _ _ _ _ _
[D] Why are you wondering [Em] what went wrong?
[Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D]
Why [Bm] in the light
[G] In this [D] dark without a dawn?
Evil is sleeping now _
_ _ Hiding under [A] your tongue
[G]
Show [Bm] your face
_ [G] But a long fall from [D] grace
Help me [Em] [B] understand _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D]
What [Bm] is the reason for your _ [D]
carelessness?
_ You're stumbling, shadow
You _ have no name now
Was [G] it the [A] sins of [Bm] my youth?
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ What have I done [Bm] to you? _
_ _ [D] That you [G] make everything [Bm] I dread
And [A] everything I [D] fear Come true
_ _ Boy, I'm guiltless, baby, so bring me
_ _ _ [G] _ Everything [Bm] I dread [A] and everything I [D] fear Come true
Man is the sire of sorrow
_ _ Oh, you [G] make [Bm] everything I dread
[A] And [D] everything I fear _ _ _
Come true _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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