Chords for Stephen Fearing - Listen Up - The Longest Road

I was going through my notes.
I've got a drawer full of bits, little [D] pieces of paper.
It's my compost drawer.
[A] And I was going through it and pulling [G] stuff out, and I had this stuff,
and I didn't remember exactly where it was from.
I started writing more on it, and I realized that I had written it,
and it was remembering being in Ireland and thinking back about Canada.
So I started writing the song from that perspective.
And it's from the perspective of, like, an eight-year-old remembering this place that I'd left.
And I left Canada.
We moved to Ireland.
There was this incredible journey across the country by train and by boat.
I got to see the whole country, and then we left by boat, which was very romantic.
And I got to Ireland, and immediately it was a new culture, English-speaking but quite different, much older.
I ended up going to a boarding school, and the whole thing was just, we were learning Latin and Gaelic,
and it was [C] quite foreign to me.
So of [A] course Canada was this [Gm] great place where I felt comfortable and [G] everything was fine.
_ _ I'm standing at a window, I'm pressed against the past.
[A] I'm looking on [C] in black and white through the [D] eyes of photographs.
[G] And I'm falling into [Am] faces that cultivate its [G] smiles, two-dimensional.
Je me [D] souviens de [G] Canada.
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_ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] Out of Gastown in the morning, on a train in 69.
Into the arc weld [C] of the rising sun [D] we left the coast behind.
[C] And the wheels roll [Am] in a rhythm, and I heard in them for the [D] first time,
the endless song of [C] traveling out of [G] Canada, oh Canada.
_ [C] The longest [G] road I've known, [C]
paved with the [G] kind of broken hearts that lead [E] to broken homes.
[G] Looking backwards [Em] I remember, the cracks in [C] all the [G] paving stones and the distances.
I've traveled [A] out of [G] Canada. _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [G] Through the dawn days and the prayers that bound the sky above our heads.
My stepfather [Em] looked for [D] Mounties in the streets of [G] Winnipeg.
And he told them [C] that my mother's love had stole his heart away.
[G] And we all stood there posed [C] for Polaroids [A] of Canada, [G] _ [C] oh Canada.
[A] _ [C] The longest [G] road I've known, [C]
paved with the [G] kind of broken hearts [E] that lead to broken [C] homes.
[G] Looking backwards I [C] remember, the [D] cracks in all the paving [G] stones and the distances.
I've [A] traveled out of [G] Canada. _ _
I [Gm] awoke wrapped in my [F] mother's arms on the docks [G] of Montreal.
The [Gm] ships looked like [F] Christmas, and the [C] moon a sword and ball.
When the seagulls [D] spoke of England, [C] I never [C#m] felt so _ [D] small.
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_ [D] _ [G] And I waited till the ocean turned from emerald to grey.
[C] The wind threshed the water [E] and washed our [D] wake away.
And [G] the seagulls [C] blew like words back to the mouth of the St.
[G] Lawrence.
As we sailed [C] out on the [D] Empress of [G] Canada, [Em] oh [G] Canada.
The longest road I've known, paved with the kind of broken [C] hearts that lead to broken homes.
[G] Looking backwards [C] I remember, [Bm] the cracks in all [D] the paving stones and the [C] distances.
I've [A] traveled out of [Em] _ [A] Canada.
[C] The first country [G] of my youth, [C] my heart was ever drawn [A] to you like a tongue to [C] a broken tooth.
[G] In a world [Am] where everyone was always leaving.
I [G] was trying to keep my [Dm] fingertips on [G] _
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