Rusty And Blue Chords by David Crosby

[Am] _ [D] _ [F] _ [D] _ [Am] _ [G] _ [Am] _ [D] _
[C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ [D] How [Dm] can I sweep [C] [Dm] these words into a cluster?
_ _ Put them in a pile like feathers on your floor.
_ [G] _ [D] [Dm] Voyages in the [C] sea forest, deep [D] blue and [C] rusty.
_ [G] _ [D] [C] Sew them in a [D] satchel and leave them at your [Dm] door.
_ _ [C] People's [D] lives, people's [C] lives, [D] _
[G] fascinate [C] me.
All [D] my life, all my life, I wanted to [Dm] understand.
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [G] [D] There's a [Am] man on the corner, [G] he's [Dm] got the moon in his eye.
[G] [Dm] He just comes here to visit and [D] he [C] wears a disguise.
[Dm] And I wonder if [Am] he's looking for [D] friends or [Am] for truth.
[D] I think [C] he's calling [Dm] for someone [G] in [D] that [Am] telephone booth.
_ [G] And the smiling woman [Am] answers.
[Em] [G] She defeats fear with her eyes.
[Am] She thinks life's fine, [G] _
[C] so I think [D] she's right.
[C] And [Am] my heart wants to give her [G] a [F] gift so [G] grand
that [C] it will speak for [F] [G] me [Am] and tell her just where I stand.
[Dm] And I stand on a pillar [G] and it's [Dm] melting like ice.
[C] _ [D] [Dm] Of years that I lived, [G] _
[Dm] some I lived twice.
_ And I have all these feathers [Dm] and leaves on my floor
[G] [Dm] that I don't want just blowing [D]
around [Dm] loose anymore.
[Bm] And [Em] I feel a need to gather, _ to rummage and fetch,
_ to shake out my life _ and give it a stretch
to [G] bring shells to the surface.
And [D] I'll [G] give [D] them to you, [G] gifts from the sea floor, [D] rusty and blue.
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [Dm] _ [Am] _ _
[C] _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [C] [D] Now [Dm] _ _
[G] _ [D] these two lives [Am] [Dm] hold my attention quite well.
[Dm] See, lives almost never [G] _ [Dm] run parallel.
[D] Like the [Dm] boards and the flooring, [C] all [D] deep-grained and worn,
[Dm] _
[G] _ [Dm] [G] faded and [Dm] faded [C] [G] long [Dm] before we were born.
[C] _ _ [D] People's lives, [C] people's lives, [D] _
[A] [C] fascinate me.
All my life, [D] all my [C] life, I [D] wanted to understand, _ _ [G] _ [Dm] _ [E] _ _
[C] _ [D] _ _ _ [D] understand.
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[C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ [Am] _ _
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[C] _ [D] _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ [N] _