F G Am G C G [Verse]F G The year moves on without you in itAm G Now it is fall without youF G I had to close the windows and doors without you coming throughAm G I kept them open for as long as I couldC G But the baby got coldF G I watched the calendar bulldoze [Instrumental]F G Am GC G This whole past summer was a lingering heat waveF G And I remember late August, our open bedroom windowF Going through your things with the fan blowingG And the sound of helicopters and the smell of smokeC G F From the forest fire that was growing, billowing just on the edge of town where we used to swimG Am They say a natural, cleansing devastation burning the understory, erasing trailsG There is no endC But when I'm kneeling in the heatG Throwing out your underwearF The devastation is not natural or goodG You do belong hereF G I reject nature, I disagreeC In the hazy light of forest fire smokeG I looked across at the refineriesF G And thought that the world was actually constantly endingF G And the smell and roar of the asphalt truck that was idling just out the window, tearing up our streetC G I missed you, of courseF G And I remember thinking the last time it rained here you were alive stillF G And that this same long heat that I was in contained youC G And in this same heat I open the window next to youF On your last morningG F G So you could breathe and then so you could ghost awayC G And now so the room will hopefullyF Em Stop whisperingF G The grind of time I'm not keeping up withAm G The leaf on the ground pokes at my slumbering griefF G C Walking around, severed, lumberingEm F G But slowly sovereignty reasserts itselfAm G I don't want it thoughAm G And betrayal whinesAm G Who and how could IAm/F Live?
Forest Fire
Mount Eerie
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