Intro riff/verses
C C Dm Am F F C C (hammer on with 2nd finger)

C............Dm.........Am..........F
You were the mother who said to her child
.................C 
"You bring it up slowly"
C............Dm..........Am.......F
All of these buoys, they mark the traps
.................C
and you were the only
E...............Am
Woman for fifty miles 
..........C...................Dm
who could lift something like that
......G..................G
You'd cook them up in seawater 
G...............G
soon as you got back

Chorus
...........Am
Reva, thereafter
..........F
Up to the rafters
...............C
Up through the plaster
...............G......................Am
Up through the highest beams, I will
.............F
Sing of your wonder
................C
In a voice like thunder
...............G
Sometimes your heart bursts at its seams


C..............Dm........Am......F
The sound of a nighttime passing train 
................C
wakes me from a slumber
....C...........Dm.........Am.......F
The creeping of time keeps me awake
................C 
won't let me go under
....E............Am.................C
But sometimes forgetting is all you need 

............Dm..........G stay on G again
to get some sleep
Why have you left here,
and what does it mean for me?

Chorus

Am F C - let ring

(C)
You wrote the letters one by one 
(C)
into the setting of the sun
.........F
Tell me, what was it like 
...Dm
to send yourself 
..G
into the light that night?