Chords for Lucy Kaplansky - Still Life - Flesh and Bone

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_ _ [Bb] Sadness is a little boy _ [C] looking _ out _ _ [Eb] the window _ _ high above [C] a city _ _ _ _
[Gm] Counting statues of people on [Ab] the buildings _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] Thinking that the people are _ [Ab] forever
_ _ _ He wants [F] his _ father _ to be [C] a statue _ _ _
On [Eb] the rooftop of his _ _ [C] fatherless home
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So [Gm] that he _ can _ [Ab] always see him _
So [Gm] that he will _ never [Ab] leave him _ _
Late [Eb] at night in the darkness of [Cm] his dreaming
_ His _ _ [Eb] father's words fall down in [Cm] a rain stream
_ _ And [Gm] the words become hands that will [Ab] guide _ him
Through [Gm] his life in the world just [Ab] beginning _ _ _ _
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[Bb] cannot live _ _ in bronze [Ab] or stone _ _ _ _
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Make [Bb] your _ life _ in flesh and [Ab] bone _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ Stranded is a man no longer [Cm] searching _ _ _ _
For the [F] life he had hoped for and [C] _ _ imagined _ _ _
[Gm] Courting fear _ instead of [Ab] a woman _ _ _ _
[Gm] Holding sorrow as his _ only [Ab] _ _ _ companion _ _
[Eb] Counting days like his [Bb] money in [C] the markets
[Cm] _ And watching [Eb] _ life from the window in his [C] _ office _ _ _
Maybe [Gm] one _ _ day I'll have [Ab] the courage _ _ _
Maybe [Gm] one day I'll sail across [Ab] the ocean
_ _ But I [Gm] feel [Eb] safe in the light of my [Cm] computer _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ This is how I choose [Cm] to live _ _ _ _
Fixed [Gm] in _ _ stone, a man [Ab] will _ _ wither _
Running [Gm] waters are the life of [Ab] a _ river _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ You cannot [Bb] _ live in _ _ [Ab] bronze or _ stone _ _ _
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Make [Bb] your _ _ life in flesh and [Ab] bone
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Remember [Eb] _ me _ _ _ _
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_ _ Frightened is an old [C] man [Cm] limping
_ _ _ Through the [Eb] park on a dark [C] December [G] day _ _ _ _
He [Gm] stands frozen at the base of [Ab] a statue _ _ _ _
And [Gm] he hopes for a warm hand [Ab] to help _ him _ _
_ [Eb] Tonight he will dream that [C] he is [Cm] flying _ _ _
Over [Eb] _ banks of a river he [Cm] remembers
_ _ His _ [Gm] father's voice will echo all [Ab] around _ him
His _ [Gm] father's hands will hold him in [Ab] the sky _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] Now I can _ sail across [Cm] the ocean _ _ _ _ _
_ Now [Eb] I will _ sail across the _ ocean _ _ _
_ [Gm] Now I'm _ sailing [Ab] across the _ _ _ _ ocean
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cannot [Bb] _ live _ _ in bronze [Ab] or stone
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_ [Bb] must _ live as flesh [Ab] and _ bone
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Remember [Eb] _ me _ _ _
_ _ _ Remember _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ me _ _ _ Remember _ _ _ _ _ _ _ me _ _ _
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