Chords for Gavin Creel - Original Song (Live @ Elsie Fest 2019)

This is a midlife art series [Db] about art and [C] life and I'm gonna make a theater piece
because [Ab] god damn it I'm gonna make it.
[N] I'm calling it a concert cult.
[Cm] _
_ And I'm gonna hopefully [Bb] get to make it and [Bbm] be on Broadway, who knows.
[Ebm] _ [Bb] [F] But I'm gonna share a song that I've never sung before.
This is [Eb] about_
If you're out [A] there right now and you're feeling [Bb] nervous about the world, I don't know, politics or
social [Db] inequality or gender [Bb] inequality or racial inequality [N] or
the world seems to be [C] breaking apart, [F] love can fix it.
You just gotta keep [Eb] hope. _ _ _
[Bb] Feels like it's [Bbm] breaking apart and I'm a writer [Ab] and you just gotta write it sometimes.
You gotta
write [Bb] it and create it.
[C] So this is a brand new [Eb] song.
I'm probably gonna shit [Ab] the bed on this but
it's [Bb] for you.
It's a gift for all of you.
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ _ _ The end [Eb] is nigh, [Fm] the world is heavy.
_ [Db] As I'm calling out, it's falling [Bb] foul I fear.
I [Eb] try to write, to [Fm] hold it steady.
_ [Ab] [Eb] I lose my way as [Ab] they keep drawing [Db] near.
Their [Eb] war is on, _ their [Fm] evil's raging.
_ [Db] My only weapon is my [Eb] father's pen.
So [Cm] I write _ [Fm] without engaging.
_ I won't [Bb] let them light the [Ab] fuse in me [Db] again. _
[Eb] Story after story [Fm] and page after page, [Db] I'll write about our glory [Eb] to kill the rage. _
[Db] This is what [Eb] it is when you [Ab] live for love. _ _
[Db] This is [Eb] what you do when you [Fm] die for the life you [Eb] dream
of love.
[Db] This is what I [Ab] am till [Bb] the world is telling us, [Ab]
[Db] but am I the only one?
_ _ _ Stop [Eb] the blame
and [Fm] stop the weeping.
That [Db] we can cultivate a beauty [Eb] in her light that will set us free
and [Fm] end the grieving. _
[Eb] For a world that [Ab] can make peace [Db] but not a fight, I need to [Eb] write
a [Ab] new beginning.
[Fm] I [Db] need to tell the tale of an [Eb] enemy's greed.
Someone [Cm] will read and [Fm] feel the
winning. _
[Bb] If I don't, I don't know how [Ab] this will [Db] end. _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Fm] And word after word, [Db] I'm sending out my [Bbm] signal
like [Eb] a bird. _ _
[Db] This is what it is [Eb] when you [Ab] live for love. _
[Db] _ _ [Eb] This is what you do when you [Fm] die for the life you dream [Eb] of love.
[Db] This is who [Ab] I am till the [Bb] world is done.
_ [Ab]
[Db] I'm the only one. _ _ _ _
[Fm] So on the beautiful [Ab] and bright place appealing to hope [Cm] and light, for where people live [Db] in quiet pride,
[Fm] I knew the story as [Ab] a boy.
My brother's friend, my [Cm] father's joy.
Now with them gone, there's [Bb] just a great
divide.
[Bbm] Between what was and [Fm] what will be, darkness grows [Eb] inside of me.
I hear it saying, [Bb] boy, you don't belong. _
[Db] Now my friends, I [Ab] ask you, tell me what I'm meant [C] to do.
Could it be we were wrong? _ _
[Db] Is this [Eb] all there is?
Do we [Ab] live for love? _
[Db] Am I [Eb] just a fool?
Am [Fm] I not the life we're [Eb] dreaming of?
[Db] Am I just a [Ab] fool?
And the world is [Bb] done.
[Ab] I can't be the only _ one.
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[Db] This is [Eb] _ [Fm] what it is when you live [Eb] for love.
[Db] This is who [Ab] I am till [Bb] the world is done.
[C]
[Db] I'm the only one.
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_ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] I'm the only one.
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