Chords for Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs From Home Episode 62: Sometimes Just The Sky

_ _ Hi everyone.
_ Welcome back to Songs from Home.
I am here with your friend and mine, _ the soul dog, Angus.
_ And _ he's doing great, and _ we're doing great here.
_ But _ I want to thank you all so much for the extraordinary _ outpouring of condolences for the love of White Kitty.
_ _ _ She was my best friend, and her loss has been _ _ incredibly hard, but I just _ _ _ felt _ so much _ appreciation and gratitude to all of you for your words about her and remembering your own pets. _
_ _ We all have those loves that are gone, and it helps to know that we're not alone when we feel these terrible feelings of loss.
_ _ _ _ If I talk about it anymore, I'm going to start bawling, and I don't want to do that.
_ So I want to tell you that I've decided to bring this series to a close.
_ Songs from Home began a year ago, March _ 18th, with two times a week videos, and then afterwards it kind of just very informally organized itself around Sunday mornings.
And now that a year has passed, I can hardly believe it.
_ _ _ You know, it was a way to keep _ _ the music playing while keeping one another company during lockdown. _
It was a way to help each other through _ isolation and change and loss and acceptance and all the things that we don't even have words for yet to describe the experience of this past year.
_ You have all helped me so much, _ _ and I'm so thankful for that.
To have Songs from Home as part of my routine, my structure, my _ appointment each week, _ it helped me as those things do, and I'm sure you understand that.
Now that the vaccine _ is mostly here, _ _ and we are beginning to venture out slowly but carefully, it feels like the right time to move on from this weekly series. _ _
There is still much uncertainty ahead, _ _ but I believe we can all together continue _ to stay mighty. _ _
Touring will resume.
Hard to know exactly when, but when it does, I sure hope I'll see you out there on the road. _ _ _
And until it does, we can meet back here from time to time.
Pictures of Angus romping through the fields, _ _ pictures of sunrises and sunsets, those things I like to take pictures of, and perhaps the occasional song as well.
_ _ But most of all, thank you to all of you _ for your support, _ for your kindness, for your belief, _ for sharing all of the things that you have shared with me and with one another. _ _
_ _ But your kindness and your spirit, it's out there in the world, and I for one am comforted so much by that.
_ Thank you for being here.
Thank you for loving White Kitty and Angus.
And _ _ _ the [C] song [G] _ [F] _ [C] _ [G] _
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is the one I've picked [B] to go out on, _ sometimes just the [F] sky. _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ Noises in my head, [G] an [Am] endless should-haves rain, _ [C] on me like a storm. _ _ _
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[F] _ _ Losses piled up like [Em] wood [Am] stacks, stories high.
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Feels like I've been frayed, but [G] I've no alibi.
It _ [C] used [F] to be that all I needed [C] was what I didn't possess.
_ [G] _ [C] Yearning [F] makes you who you end up [C] as, more or less.
[G] _ [C] Whatever [F] choice I made that worked out was [C]
[Am] just a lucky _ guess.
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[C] _ Just a lucky _ guess.
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_ Adventures half discarded [C] and half [Am] held on to now, like [G]
[C] dancing on a _ ledge to [G] the edge somehow.
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[F] can still pick out the faces, though [G] I [Am] forget the names _ and [C] the places that are gone. _ _
[G] But the urge _ remains _ [C] to [F] throw caution to the wind, or [G] is it [C] to the star?
_ [G] _ [C] To [F] hold out my open hands [C] despite my empty [G] arms.
[C] To wear [F] my heart upon my sleeve [G] just [Am] like a battle scar. _
[G] _ [C] _ These are battle _ scars.
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[F] There's comfort in a late night [C] kids' show's [Am] radio, _ _ _ [C] and in a letter sent _ and lists [G] of what you know.
_ _ _ [C] And when [F] you don't know anything, you [G] make [Am] another one.
[D] _ _ It's [G] good [C] to write it down, _ _ [G] starting with the sun.
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[F] Sometimes church bells, trees, and seasons [C] marking times gone [G] by.
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Sometimes [F] starling swells and tidal [G] moons [C] and filled up eyes.
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Sometimes _ [F] _ everything at once, [C] but [Am] sometimes just the sky.
_ [Em] _ [C] _ Sometimes _ just _ [G] the sky. _ _ _
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_ _ _ Sometimes just the sky.
Well, _ _ that's it from us today, everyone.
[N] Thank you so much for tuning back in.
_ _ We will see you again sometime soon.
_ But until then, I know that you know exactly what to do.
Stay well.
Stay strong.
Wear your masks everywhere.
_ _ _ And don't ever, ever forget to stay mighty. _ _
And we will see you the next time. _ _ _ _
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