Still Life


Capo III Note: the song gets its airy feeling by using these "incomplete" (C) and (Am) chords: C: 030020 Am: 002200 Fmaj7: 10321x (C)Sadness is a little boy (Am)looking Out the (C)window high above a (Am)city Counting (Em)statues of people on the (Fmaj7)buildings (Em)Thinking that the people are (Fmaj7)forever He wants his (C)father to be a (Am)statue On the (C)rooftop of his fatherless (Am)home So that (Em)he can always (Fmaj7)see him So that (Em)he will never (Fmaj7)leave him Late at (C)night in the darkness of his (Am)dreaming His father's (C)words fall down in a (Am)rain storm And the (Em)words become hands that will (Fmaj7)guide him Through his (Em)life in the world just be(Fmaj7)ginning (C)You cannot (G)live in bronze or (Fmaj7)stone (C)Make your (G)life in flesh and (Fmaj7)bone (C)Stranded is a man no longer (Am)searching For the (C)life had hoped for and i(Am)magined Courting (Em)fear instead of A (Fmaj7)woman Holding (Em)sorrow as his only com(Fmaj7)panion Counting (C)days like his money in the (Am)markets And watching (C)life from the window in his (Am)office Maybe (Em)one day I'll have the (Fmaj7)courage Maybe (Em)one day I'll sail across the (Fmaj7)ocean But I feel (C)safe in the light of my com(Am)puter (C)This is how I choose to (Am)live Fixed in (Em)stone a man will (Fmaj7)wither Running (Em)waters are the life of the (Fmaj7)river (C)You cannot (G)live in bronze or (Fmaj7)stone (C)Make your (G)life in flesh and (Fmaj7)bone (G)Remember (C)me (C)Frightened is an old man (Am)limping Through the (C)park on a dark December (Am)day He stands (Em)frozen at the base of a (Fmaj7)statue And he (Em)hopes for a warm hand to (Fmaj7)help him To(C)night he will dream that he is (Am)flying Over (C)banks of a river he re(Am)members His father's (Em)voice will echo all a(Fmaj7)round him His father's (Em)hands will hold him in the (Fmaj7)sky (C)Now I can sail across the (Am)ocean (C)Now I will sail across the (Am)ocean (Em)Now I am sailing across the (Fmaj7)ocean (C)I cannot (G)live in bronze or (Fmaj7)stone (C)I must (G)live as flesh and (Fmaj7)bone (G)Remember (C)me Remember me Remember me