I Am Going But I Am Not Gone

G
I am going, but I am not gone
Bound to you by all that we have sown
The slowest disappearing act
Em
Lost in fiction, lost in fact
    D
My own private Idaho

G
[?] Calls to me
From branches of the bare persimmon tree
Like arteries, they fill the sky
Em
Reach the thoughts I cannot climb
    D
My own garden in the snow

       C     G   D
But I can't let go
         C  G  D
This is all I know
       C  G   D
And if I let go
              Em                 D
Where would I be? Where would I be?   x2

G
The cuckoo drowns the night in lonesome song
Singing 'I am going, but I am not gone'
My bedside lamp an anchor here
Em                            D
Nighttime as it washes in my own
Deadly undertow

       C     G   D
But I can't let go
         C   G  D
This is all I know
       C  G  D
And if I let go
               Em                D
Where would I be? Where would I be? x4

 Em  D

 G
Every day, my mind's cast out to sea
When it returns, there's less and less of me
Alaska in the house I own
A grey-haired woman I don't know
Come, my darling, into bed with me
My broken head your aching back will ease
       Em
With quiet comfort, silent touch
  D
When the surf becomes too much
When the surf becomes too much

           C     G  D
'Cause I can't let go
          C  G  D
This is all I know
       C  G  D
And if I let go
          C     G   D
'Cause I can't let go
         C  G   D
This is all I know
       C  G   D
And if I let go
              G
Where would I be