Four Fires Chords & Lyrics - Mewithoutyou

Intro (and verses): Em—Asus2 (x2)
[Em]Dear seven sisters, all is distance h[Asus2]ere All look into never
[Em]out of every face I'll let you be my [Asus2]belief if I can be your doubt
[Em]Signed from Persia: Kind subversion o[Asus2]f a kind I couldn't say
[Em]As our blessed lack of conversation H[Asus2]as kept me alive so far today

[Em] [Asus2] (x2)

[Em]All my savings soon were spent, so in[Asus2] the vales of early Fall
[Em]Under table, covered rent by packing [Asus2]bales of barley straw
[Em]With efforts held to circumvent the w[Asus2]atchful eye of federal law
[Em]And mama, though I've been so alone [Asus2]

[G]My faith in lov[D]e is still de[Asus2]vout (x 4)

[Em]With solemn sounds the potter's groun[Asus2]d beneath our bare wandering feet
[Em]Our crooked hearts in Sacred Harp san[Asus2]g out of the dark inside us deep
[Em]Their shapes of sorrow fell like shad[Asus2]ows on the farm-to-market roads
[Em]That led my stumbling steps back home[Asus2]
[Em]But mama why four fires burning? Why [Asus2]so quiet Father's room?
[Em]Has he not heard his son returning? o[Asus2]r has he gone to gather food?
[Em]Or is he stomping in the forest? or h[Asus2]as he wandered into town?
[Em]"Son, I think it's best that you sit [Asus2]down-

[G]His faith in lo[D]ve was still [Asus2]devout..." (x 7, x1 over last 'devout')

[Bm]Mama, sin[G]g my favori[A]te hymn As [G]I sink deep into the grass
[Bm]And the n[G]ight birds [A]beat me with[G] their wings With horrid laughter as they pass
[Bm]The stage[G] goes dim, [A]its pageants[G] finished Fleeting worlds to which I've clung with a now extinguished longing
[Bm]Mama, sin[G]g my favori[A]te hymn Wher[G]e we make ploughshares from our swords
[Bm]And the m[G]ason's barb[A]er trim our[G] Christmas tree In the Oneness of the Lord
[Bm]What grac[G]e surrounds[A] ! what stran[G]ge perfection! Mamma, sing my favorite hymn
Remind me Everyone is him