The Things That We Are Made Of Cifras

Songwriter: Mary Chapin Carpenter, 2016
From Joan Baez' album "Whistle Down The Wind", 2017
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
                   E  Esus4 E                            A   Asus4 A
I remember driving down         the rutted roads late at night
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Following the summer moon       bright as any pair of headlights
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I felt the air on my face    and the night pressed inside my palm
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A moment captured in a place     this memory stays strong
 
 
[Chorus]
              A
Oh my darling oh my love
              E
Oh my darling oh my love
              B
Oh my darling oh my love
                       A      A  E
The things that we are made of
 
 
[Verse 2]
                    E Esus4 E                             A   Asus4 A
And I remember feeling        I'm alive and in no need of saviours
                      B  Bsus4 B                           E    Esus4 E
If the past's another country    I'm at the border with my papers
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Where is your heart if not inside you    where is home or are you lost
                       B                                     A          Asus2 E
Where is love if not beside you    I had no answers but they let me cross
 
 
[Chorus]
              A
Oh my darling oh my love
              E
Oh my darling oh my love
              B
Oh my darling oh my love
                       A     Asus2 E
The things that we are made of
 
 
 
[Bridge]
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Like the silence of my shadow    when the twilight world is calling
                          B                          E
The loneliness that knows me    by the cadence of my walking
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And the scar upon my elbow    and the sound of my own breathing
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My reflection in a window    and the way I'm always leaving
 
 
[Chorus Melody, humming]
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              A    Asus2 A Asus2 E Esus4 E
 
 
[Verse 3]
                     E Esus4 E                         A                 Asus4 A
And I remember wishing        for some other life than this one I've claimed
                         B                                   E
How often I have been convinced    how eagerly I'd make that trade
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Then all at once I see your face    and the summer night and the open door
               B                                       A  Asus4 A E
Dimmer now but not erased    and I know what these are for
 
 
[Chorus]
              A
Oh my darling oh my love
              E
Oh my darling oh my love
              B
Oh my darling oh my love
              E
Oh my darling oh my love
 
              A
Oh my darling oh my love
              E
Oh my darling oh my love
              B
Oh my darling oh my love
                       A      Asus2 E
The things that we are made of
 
 
[Outro]
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