Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs From Home Episode 4: This Is Love

_ _ _ _ _ _ Hi everybody, we're back.
Episode 4 of [F] Songs from Home.
I'm here, not in the kitchen this
time, but in the room right next to the kitchen.
Angus is back there chewing on one of his
toys.
_ _ _ Thank you again for all those beautiful comments.
_ It just fills my tank to see [D] and
hear from all of you.
[N] And thank you so much also for asking about White Kitty.
She's just
taking her daily 23-hour nap, so she probably won't join us today.
But she's doing well.
Thank you for asking after her. _
I hope you all are doing great.
I hope you're staying
mighty for one another, for all of us.
That's what we need.
And this is a song from the
Stones in the Road album.
It got a lot of requests in the post, and so I'm just delighted
to be able to sing it for you today.
_ It's certainly [Eb] a song _ _ [Bb] _ _ that's the way [Fm] we need to
[Bb] be with one another _ _ [Eb] during this time, [F] and forever after as well.
It's called This [Eb] Is Love. _
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_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
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_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _ If you ever need to hear a voice in the middle of the night when it seems so black outside,
can't remember [Ab] lies ever shown on you, or the ones you loved [Eb] at least for another lifetime.
_ _ [Bb] [Eb] The voice you need to hear is the true and the trusted kind with a soft familiarity.
In the swerving unsure [Ab] times when the [Eb] waves are robbing in, and you're not sure you can swim well,
here's the life I [Bb] know.
[Fm] If you ever need to feel like everyone's alone,
[Gm] when you least expect but want to do more than you've ever [Bb] known, [Eb] well baby here's that thing,
here's my voice, [Bb]
it's called heaven.
_ _ This [Eb] is love,
_ _ _ _ [Bb] [Fm] all in a word, is [Bb] anywhere you'll be.
This [Eb] ain't this love. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ If you ever need some proof that time
can heal your wounds, just step inside my heart.
Walk [Ab] around these rooms where the shadows used
to be, you can [Eb] feel as well as see how peace can hover.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb]
Time is a mirror fixed, what's broken
with its power, the life that smashed us both to bits, spent its last [Ab] few [Eb] hours calling out your name.
This is the kind of pain that I'm reaching for, _ [Bb] that [Fm] I'm standing in now with my heartburn held out.
[Bb] _ [Gm]
You would have thought a miracle, it's all about us [Bb] still.
[Ab] Baby all I know, all I know [Bb] is we're still
standing.
_ This [Eb] is _ love, _ _ _ [Fm] all in a word, [Bb] is anywhere you'll be.
This [Eb] is _ love, _ _ _ [Fm] standing up for you,
[Bb] it's standing up for me.
[Ab] _
And I see you still and there's this patch in my [Bb] throat,
and I swallow hard and it leaves me.
_ [Eb]
There's nothing [Ab] in this world can be changed when you know,
[Bb] still I know I'm here.
If you ever [Eb] need me, _ _ _ [Bb] this [Eb]
is love.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
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_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ If you ever think of me, let it be around twilight when the world is sundown.
Last
kind of sunlight is green in the skies, you sit and watch the night descend in.
_ _ _ _ Car will pass out in front, love will visit the window, dog will bark at dawn, _ children's [Ab] voices
peel over and under the head.
You can let [Eb] it pass, you can remember, _ _ [Bb] [Fm] you can let go of things that are
wrong in the [Bb] past.
[Gm]
Just remember that the wrong things aren't supposed [Eb] to [Ab] last, it's more than done
and the rest is gonna [Bb] come when you let it.
This [Eb]
is love, _ _ _ [Bb] [Fm] all that was [Bb] and will be.
This [Eb]
is love,
_ _ _ and [Fm] you let it live, if [Bb] you let it now.
This [Eb] is love, _ _ _ _ [Fm] all that was [Bb] and will be.
This [Eb] is _ love. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Stay well everybody, _ _ stay safe, _ _ stay healthy, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
see you later on. _ _ _ _ _
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