Block Of Wood

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[Verse 1]

D           G                D
Grab your heart we need to leave
            G              D
There's no time to cry or grieve
                       A
For the fallen family tree

D      G                  D
Rise above the flooding plain
           G                D
Crouching low to duck the flame
                          A
Generations against the grain
                           D
Up in smoke and down the drain

        G                 D
Narrow pass and gaining speed
              G              D
A judgement lapse is all we need
                           A
To make the treachery complete

D     G                D
Fire from the mountainside
          G             D
Floods below not far behind
                             A
We rise we work, we fall we swim
                      D
Best to let the water in


[Pre-Chorus]

        G             D
If the fire, if the flood
           G                   D
Burns the tree and thins the blood
                             A
If your tears don't want to dry


[Chorus]

                D          G
I can help you cry
              D
Through the night
  G                    D
Through the night and day
                        A
I can't take your pain away
                   D
But I can help you cry


[Verse 2]

            G            D
Returning prodigals and home
          G               D
Learning all there is to know
                        A
About reaping what you sow

D   G               D
S O S with dot and dash
       G                  D
Morse code, the fire and ash
                          A
What we have will have to do
                               D
To work the ground and start anew

                G               D
We'll cut the branch from this tree
          G                D
Carve a place for you and me
                             A
A wooden seat that we can string
                             D
From a branch where we can swing

       G                  D
We'll take this block of wood
          G                D
Carve it down and sand it good
                      A
When finished it will be
                          D
A souvenir of the family tree


[Pre-Chorus]

             G            D
And if the fire, if the flood
            G                 D
Burns the tree and thins the blood
                           A
If your tears don't wanna dry


[Chorus]

                 D            G
I can help you cry
              D
Through the night
G                      D
Through the night and day
                         A
I can't take your pain away
                    D         G
But I can help you cry
             D
Through the night
G                      D
Through the night and day
                        A
I can't take your pain away

I can try but


[Bridge]

 F   C        G
God help me please
      F         C      G
Come save the family tree
      F        C         G
My friends I broke them all
       F      C       G
When falling off the wall


[Verse 3]
D       G             D
In the ash I found an ember
           G             D
Something warm to help remember
                              A
A block of wood that used to be
                      D
A strong tall family tree
                      A
A strong tall family tree
N.C.              D
Blowing in the breeze


[Chorus]

   G             D
Cry through the night
G                      D
Through the night and day
                         A
I can't take your pain away
                    D               G
But I can help you cry
             D
Through the night
G                      D
Through the night and day
                         A
I can't take your pain away
                    D
But I can help you cry