Biography:
The National Lights is the primary song-writing project of Jacob Thomas Berns. Assisted by the arrangements Ernest Christian Kiehne Jr. (The Bland Allisons, Sonya Cotton), Jacob Thomas sets out on his full-length debut, The Dead Will Walk, Dear, to forgive the past while compounding its wrongs. Stirred by the fiction of the American Gothic, The Dead Will Walk, Dear roughly documents the passions, trials and regrets of a Midwestern murder.
The National Lights marry traditional American folk stylings - acoustic guitars
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
F C Am
F C Am
[Verse 1]
F
There was dirt in your mouth
Am
On the day we put you down
G
There was blood on your teeth
Am
Like you were born to the ground
F
I held your head
Am
As water filled your mouth
G
When the branches scratched your eyes
Am
When the land began to flood
[Chorus]
F C Am
This is my body dear that I've kept inside you
G
And that you'll keep if you want to
F C Am G
Here is what's left of what I have taken from yours
F C Am
Tonight the bells will cry
G
This doesn't scare you
It could if you want to
F C Am
We can run through the yard
G Am
We can swim out in the swamp
[Verse 2]
F
I cleaned your face
Am
And covered you in stones
G
There was so much water there
Am
A hundred miles to make your own
F
A butcher's boy
Am
Can make his song your tomb
G
The prettiest girls
Am
Should always plan theirs for two
[Chorus]
F C Am
This is my body dear that I've kept inside you
G
And that you'll keep if you want to
F C Am G
Here is what's left of what I have taken from yours
F C Am
Tonight the bells will cry
G
This doesn't scare you
It could if you want to
F C Am
We can run through the yard
G Am
We can swim out in the swamp
F C Am
F C Am
[Verse 1]
F
There was dirt in your mouth
Am
On the day we put you down
G
There was blood on your teeth
Am
Like you were born to the ground
F
I held your head
Am
As water filled your mouth
G
When the branches scratched your eyes
Am
When the land began to flood
[Chorus]
F C Am
This is my body dear that I've kept inside you
G
And that you'll keep if you want to
F C Am G
Here is what's left of what I have taken from yours
F C Am
Tonight the bells will cry
G
This doesn't scare you
It could if you want to
F C Am
We can run through the yard
G Am
We can swim out in the swamp
[Verse 2]
F
I cleaned your face
Am
And covered you in stones
G
There was so much water there
Am
A hundred miles to make your own
F
A butcher's boy
Am
Can make his song your tomb
G
The prettiest girls
Am
Should always plan theirs for two
[Chorus]
F C Am
This is my body dear that I've kept inside you
G
And that you'll keep if you want to
F C Am G
Here is what's left of what I have taken from yours
F C Am
Tonight the bells will cry
G
This doesn't scare you
It could if you want to
F C Am
We can run through the yard
G Am
We can swim out in the swamp
The Nelwans
The Nerves
The Never Ending
The Never Ending (...)
The Neverclaim