Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs From Home Episode 16: Something Tamed Something Wild

_ _ _ _ _ _ Welcome back everyone to Songshan Home.
Thanks for joining us out here at the farm.
I'm Mr.
Angus.
My kitty is taking a nap.
_ But we're here and we're delighted to be back with you to play another song.
_ _ I'd love to play one from an album that I made a few years ago with the brilliant Dave Cobb.
This is a song _ [F] that's pretty straightforward _ [C] _ [F] in its meaning.
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_ [C] Or rather [F] the conclusion that it comes to.
Which is really the only thing that matters in the end _ is what you feel in your heart.
[C] And how you [F] carry that through your life.
It's called Something Tamed, Something Wild. _ _
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_ _ _ It's a shoebox full of letters found underneath the soft twine.
Each one looks like a diamond now.
The jewel is lost in time.
[Dm] My reward [F] is in knowing that I held it [C] in my hands [F] for you. _ _
_ _ _ [C] What else is there but the treasures in your [Bb] heart?
[C] Something tamed, [F] something wild. _
_ _ _ Every time that I've been [C] pushed, [F] when I've been said I've been wise.
The power of the [C] corrective [F] gets me right.
Because sometimes I want to weep.
Nothing but [C] the tears of [F] a little child. _
_ _ _ [C] What else is there but the treasures in [F] your heart?
[C] Something tamed, [F] something wild. _
_ _ _ Here's a map I've memorized.
A written way of everything.
And the faces of everyone I loved and left.
To try again I couldn't make out what they were saying.
So in the sin I [C] listened hard to [F] what was inside. _
_ _ _ [C] What else is there but the voice [Bb] inside your heart?
[C] Something [F] tamed, something wild.
_ _ _ Some nights I'm woken up by something staring in my chest.
It's a feeling I've known name for.
It's hard to catch my breath.
I'm staring down the great big lonesome.
As [Bb] I'm listening [C] for the dwindling [F] of time. _
_ _ _ [C] What else is [Am] there but the echoes in your [Bb] heart?
[C] Something tamed, [F] something wild. _
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[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _
[Bb] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So the things that matter to me now are different from the past.
I care less about what's right.
Than just being in the path of some light carved out of nothing.
[Bb] The way it [C] feels when a [F] universe has smiled.
_ _ _ [C] What else is there [Am] but [F] the treasures in your heart?
[C] Something tamed, [F] something wild. _
_ _ There's two box full of letters.
Here's a map of the air.
_ Voices and [Bb] the lessons [F] and the signals that connect us [Dm] manifest into a [F] spirit.
[Bb] Waiting out where it [C] goes [F] unseen by the eye.
_ _ _ [C] What else is there but the love [F] inside your heart?
[C] _ To invite like [Am] a [F] firework to a [C] slow.
_ Over [Am] and above [F] you [Bb] in its heart.
[C] Something tamed, [F] something wild. _
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[C] That's [G] _ _ it for today.
Thanks for joining us everybody.
Angus, White Kitty, myself.
We all say farewell.
Stay well.
Until the next time.
Stay mighty.
Bye.
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