Emmy The Great – North chords

[Intro]
Db  F  C  C

[Verse]
          FThere's a place I'm gonna leave to
FWhen all this questioning is through
          BbI'm gonna set my course to somewhere further North
BbThan my eyes have ever viewed

             FAnd though I know that the thought proceeds me
FI know that others seek it too
            BbBut when I get where the needle leads me
Bb                                                         F AmWell I swear, and I swear, you'll never lead me away again

            FAnd in the time when the peace of islands
FWas first by human hand disturbed
                  BbThey built their houses and they said obedience
BbWas all the lives of men were worth

            FAnd in the shadow of the temperance
FThey laid boundaries in the dirt
              BbAnd when the door had a narrow entrance
Bb                                                                    FWith their hands on their shirts they would pray for the non-believers

[Chorus]
DbAnd there's a place called North
            FmAnd they're gathering there to sing
       CAnd I knock three times and beg them
          FmBut they will not let me in
DbAnd "Oh, my girl" they say
            Fm"You're the carrier to no gain"
      CBut I lay, what I can, somewhere North of this and
                             F AmWould you turn me away again?

[Verse]
           FAnd do you go where the needle leads to
FAnd when you get there will you change?
              BbOut where the nights are soft
BbAnd now you go because you think that Paradise should be tamed

            FAnd how you live is by a map of humanity
FAnd now you grip it 'cause you think that it saves
          BbBut I've seen what you see, it looks different to me
Bb                                                            FI see lights to the shore and all these hearts beating other rhythms
         BbNow they die to be born
                                       FAnd all their mysteries are dying with them

[Chorus]
DbAnd there's a place called North
            FmAnd you're gathering there to sing
       CAnd I knock three times and beg you
         FmBut you will not let me in
DbBut though I love so hard
            FmNow I'm the carrier to this gate
       CAnd I lay, what I can, somewhere North of us and
                              Bb FmWould you turn me away again?

Bb Fm

DbAnd would these winds would lift
         FmAnd they carry me to your door
      CAnd I knock three times and tell you
         FmI can't help where I was born
DbBut don't I love enough
      FmIsn't holiness where it forms?
      CIf I take, what I have, to the North
                                      Bb FmIs there room on your piece of Heaven?

Bb Fm
Bb Fm
Bb C
                             FOh would you turn me away again?