Chords for Steve Bell Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

[B] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Ab] When you sit on a stage and you wrote a song five years ago in your back room somewhere
that you basically wrote for yourself.
I mean, most of us artists, I mean I always like to joke about this, but we can't afford
therapy so we write songs, right?
But for the most part, you begin by writing for yourself and then you find out later if
it has any currency outside.
So to hear [C] that your song was not only capable [A] of carrying an orchestra, what an honor, [Ab] but
then to sit on a stage and have [Abm] those musicians surround you and just [Fm] the texture [Ab] is _ astounding.
And we're so used to digital music, [C] string patches, you know, they all sound fine, you
know, but we sort [Em] of forget what this really, really sounds [Eb] like and this organism and it's
just so [Bb] rich, so gorgeous. _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Soft [F] field of polder, [Bb]
moon [Eb] shining over [Bb] the valley, _ _ joining [F] the song of [Bb] the river.
_ To the [F] great giver [Bb] of the [Eb] great good.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ As it [F]
enfolds me, [Bb] somehow [Eb] it holds me [Bb] together. _
I [F] realize I've been [Bb] singing, _ still the calm is [F] ringing, [Bb] clearer than [Eb] a thief.
_ _ _ [Bb] Near by [F] the water, [Bb] [Eb] I'll build an altar to [Bb] praise him.
_ _ Out of the storms that I've found him, _ I'll sit them [F] down here, [Bb]
right by his side.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] Knowing you can [Eb] make them whole again. _