Biography:
Chris Pureka is an American acoustic singer-songwriter from Northampton, Massachusetts.
Raised in Connecticut, Pureka is said to have begun writing songs at the age of eight; by 16 she was playing the guitar. Following performances at local coffee houses and open mics, she began opening shows for such artists as Erin McKeown and Pamela Means while completing a degree in biology at Wesleyan University. After graduating, she worked in a microbiology research lab at Smith College in Northampton, eventually leaving to focus on her music full-time.
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Pretty straightforward.
Capo 4.
I used her acoustic video with Gregory Alan Isakov to get most of the chords, so you can just watch
that for any extra details I missed. The instrumental part, for example, is slightly more complicated than
the way I have it here. Please comment with any errors. This is just the basic layout.
Chords: (relative to capo)
Em (x22xxx)
C (x32x1x) played (332x1x) during Chorus
G (32xxx3)
D (xxx2h32) hammer on pointer finger a little
Verse:
Em C G D(w/hammer on)
This is a barn and I know it's haunted.
Em C G D
The corn rattles and the shadows move.
Em C G D
It's just the way, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Em C G D
I want to lie down in a field of rain.
Em C G D x 2
Em C G D
This is a river and I pray for the bottom,
Em C G D
some kind of measure of the way things change.
Em C G
I've been stuck in the middle of a slow storm,
D Em C G
counting the days, love...
D Em C G
Hmmm.. Love
Chorus:
D(strum once) C D G
I know we're in the dark, and the cold comes,
D Em D C
through the very cracks that let the light through.
D C D G
Bring me something back from that sunny coast,
D Em D C D Em(hard strum up)
and keep us, moving oooooon...
Em C G D x2
Verse:
Em C G D
These are the shadowlands, I've known them.
Em C G D
And I think it's going to be the long way down,
Em C G D
but I'll be the tiny flame, that you carry
Em C G D
around, around, around... Hmmm..
Em C G
Chorus:
D C D G
I know we're in the dark, and the cold comes,
D Em D C
through the very cracks that let the light through.
D C D G
Bring me something back from that sunny coast,
D Em D C D Em(hard strum up)
and keep us, moving oooon...
Instrumental:
Em C G D x4
Verse:
Em C G D
This is a blessing and I don't dare doubt it.
Em C G D
We built a boat out of willow trees.
Em C G D
We caught the moonlight, like a mirror,
Em C G D
shine right through to the best of me,
Em C G D
shine right through to the best of me...
Em C G D Em C G D
Hmm... hey. hmm... Hey.
Em C G D
We've been living in abandoned houses.
Em C G D
Sometimes we're tending to abandoned fields.
Em C G D
It's just the way it's just the way I'm feeling.
Em C G D(strum once and let ring)
I want to wake up with the sun in my head.
Capo 4.
I used her acoustic video with Gregory Alan Isakov to get most of the chords, so you can just watch
that for any extra details I missed. The instrumental part, for example, is slightly more complicated than
the way I have it here. Please comment with any errors. This is just the basic layout.
Chords: (relative to capo)
Em (x22xxx)
C (x32x1x) played (332x1x) during Chorus
G (32xxx3)
D (xxx2h32) hammer on pointer finger a little
Verse:
Em C G D(w/hammer on)
This is a barn and I know it's haunted.
Em C G D
The corn rattles and the shadows move.
Em C G D
It's just the way, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Em C G D
I want to lie down in a field of rain.
Em C G D x 2
Em C G D
This is a river and I pray for the bottom,
Em C G D
some kind of measure of the way things change.
Em C G
I've been stuck in the middle of a slow storm,
D Em C G
counting the days, love...
D Em C G
Hmmm.. Love
Chorus:
D(strum once) C D G
I know we're in the dark, and the cold comes,
D Em D C
through the very cracks that let the light through.
D C D G
Bring me something back from that sunny coast,
D Em D C D Em(hard strum up)
and keep us, moving oooooon...
Em C G D x2
Verse:
Em C G D
These are the shadowlands, I've known them.
Em C G D
And I think it's going to be the long way down,
Em C G D
but I'll be the tiny flame, that you carry
Em C G D
around, around, around... Hmmm..
Em C G
Chorus:
D C D G
I know we're in the dark, and the cold comes,
D Em D C
through the very cracks that let the light through.
D C D G
Bring me something back from that sunny coast,
D Em D C D Em(hard strum up)
and keep us, moving oooon...
Instrumental:
Em C G D x4
Verse:
Em C G D
This is a blessing and I don't dare doubt it.
Em C G D
We built a boat out of willow trees.
Em C G D
We caught the moonlight, like a mirror,
Em C G D
shine right through to the best of me,
Em C G D
shine right through to the best of me...
Em C G D Em C G D
Hmm... hey. hmm... Hey.
Em C G D
We've been living in abandoned houses.
Em C G D
Sometimes we're tending to abandoned fields.
Em C G D
It's just the way it's just the way I'm feeling.
Em C G D(strum once and let ring)
I want to wake up with the sun in my head.
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