C G F
C G F
C G F
Incomprehensible
Let me be
C G F
Incomprehensible
Let me be
[Verse 1]
G
Highway 17, cotton candy rain
Am
Driving with my lover, we missed our plane
F
So we added on the hours to see the lupine flowers
Dm
Way out past the border, we blew through Thunder Bay
C
The pine trees are narrow, a billion broken arrows
Am
The ravens and the crows, robins and the sparrows
F
All across Ontario, just static on the stereo
Dm
And swimming in the lake, Old Woman Bay
C
Traveling with some stuff I left when I was a kid
Am
Mr. Bear and the wooden box I hid
F
Full of broken gadgets that don't mean nothing now
Dm
The only thing I'll keep are the letters and the photographs
C
In two days it's my birthday and I'll be 33
Am
But that doesn't really matter next to eternity
F
And I like a double number, and I like an odd one too
Dm
And everything I see from now on will be something new
C Am F Dm
[Verse 2]
C
I'm afraid of getting older, that's what I learned to say
Am
Cause society has given me the words to think that way
F
The message spins and spirals, Don't get saggy, don't get grey
Dm
But the soft and lovely silvers are now falling on my shoulder
C
My mother and my grandma, my great-grandmother too
Am
They wrinkle like the river, sweeten like the dew
F
And as silver as the rainbow scales that shimmer purple blue
Dm
How can beauty that is living be anything but true?
C
So let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair
Am
Let me dance in front of people without a care
F
Let me be naked alone with nobody there
Dm
Or with mismatched socks and shoes and stuff stuffed in my underwear
[Outro]
C G F
Incomprehensible
Let me be
C G F
C G F
Incomprehensible
Let me be
C G F
