Big Sur

From the 2009 album "One Fast Move or I'm Gone" w/Benjamin Gibbard

Capo 2

D                                          Em
Settling down with warm glow woodstove and kerosene?
G                                                               D
Peace you're looking for Peace you'll find
                                                           Em?
In the tangled mad cliffsides and crashing dark 
       G
of Big Sur
       A
of Big Sur

D                                                       Em?
Rapturous ring of silence Pacific fury
                             G                                     D?
Flashing on the rocks the sea shroud towers
                                                                               Em
?The innocence of health and stillness in the wilds
      G
of Big Sur
       A
of Big Sur

                     Em                                                        G?
This whole surface of the world as we know it now
              Em                                                                   G?
Will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time 

Verse chords for interlude

D                           Em
I see as much as doors will allow
                           G                               A
?I’m a long way from the beat generation
D                                                                           Em
?Here comes the nightly moth to his nightly death?      
           G
in Big Sur
           A
in Big Sur

D                                                        Em?
The best thing to do is not to be false
                               G                                                       A?
The rocks of the valley have left no howl of complaint
D                                                              Em   ? 
I’m just a sick clown and so is everybody else?      
            G
in Big Sur
            A
in Big Sur

Verse Chords again, end on D