************************************ Artist: Josh Ritter Song: Lark Album: So Runs The World Away Tabbed by: Mark ************************************ This is based on the live version (for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmqpjkeM_0). All chords are finger-picked with various hammer-on embellishments, watch the video to get the idea. Standard Tuning: CAPO V [all chords relative to capo] CHORDS: EADGBe Am:002210 C: 032010 F: 133211 G: 320033 Intro: C G C F C C G C F C VERSE 1: C G C F C Golden ratio the shell, C G C G The stairs ascending round themselves The C G F G trees rustle as if to kneel and listen to the C G C F G C F G heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat C G C F C The oxygen in priestly green, C G C G The answers dressed in labyrinthine The C G F G telescopes atop the mountains of ecstatic vision listening to the C G heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat BRIDGE: C F C F G C G Hey............... C F C F G C G Hey........... Hey............... CHORUS: F C F C I am assured, yes I am assured yes Am G F C I am assured peace will come to me F C F C A peace that can, yes surpass the speed yes Am G F C Of my understanding and my need F G C F G C F G C F G VERSE 2 (Chords as verse 1): The meteoric warp and wend In counterbalance to the sparks ever ascending The arrow time shoots forward though it moves through repetition To the heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat What is it drives the driven snow? Upon whose temples will I rest my weary hopes now? The rain distills down steeples fills the ears of lonely church mice with the Heartbeat of a lark or the lark in my heartbeat BRIDGE CHORUS OUTRO F G C F G C F G C F G