Artist: Bowerbirds
Song: Matchstick Maker
Album: Hymns for a Dark Horse
Tabbed by: Hunter MacDermut
Intro/Verses
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"Dredge the Cedar River
For a previous life
Or scour the clears above
In search of lost time"
Pre-Chorus
"You'll never find a body
As the Palisades crumble slowly
(F#)
And they claim the past as their own"
Chorus
"Branded skin, broken vessel
Took a job in the city
Making matchsticks to start other men's fires
Oh..."
Verse (same as above)
"Gorgeous blooms on these cliffs
Missed a battery of sticks and twigs
Gravity toils away"
Pre-Chorus
"Blisters on his hands from tightening ropes all day
Lashing down all it sees
But it's poised like a father's and not like a king's
And the rule of the land's more like a strong suggestion
(F#)
And the strong current begs for the open ocean"
Chorus x2
Chorus sans words x2