Biography:
Anna Tivel is an American singer-songwriter based in Portland who creates lyric-driven folk/Americana songs.
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Other songs:
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]
C F G C
[Verse 1]
C F G C
Monday morning sidewalk man, sits back to watch the show
C F G C
The rebar and the wet cement, transistor radio
Am G C F
He takes a pull from a paper bag, across the street on an old park bench
C Em7 Am7 F C
Oh, the big machines and rolled blueprints, stir something in his soul
[Verse 2]
C F G C
A memory comes winding through the ruin of his mind
C F G C
The hardhats and the heavy boots, the nail gun’s ringing whine
Am G C F
A jungle with the same sharp sound, his brothers falling all around
C Em7 Am7 F C
Oh, they built them up, just to tear them down, and left him half alive
[Chorus]
F C F G
Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
C F
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
C G C
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
[Instrumental]
C F G C x2
[Verse 3]
C F G C
He waits each day till evening falls, the men all drive away
C F G C
The echo of their hammers linger, voices slowly fade
Am G C F
The lights along the path come on, the scaffolding a skeleton
C Em7 Am7 F C
All the things he dreamed and then forgot, the promises he made
[Chorus]
F C F G
Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
C F
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
C G Am
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
C G C
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
[Bridge]
F C F G
And the moon shines on the river like a dream, and he smokes a cigarette and falls asleep
C F
And the wind it wanders slow through empty rooms without their walls
C G C
And a silence settles over everything
[Instrumental]
C F G C x2
[Verse 4]
C F G C
And from the ground it rises up, a riverside hotel
C F G C
The sidewalk man, he comes to watch near every day until
Am G C F
The ribbon cut and the curtains hung, the reservations filled and gone
C Em7 Am7 F C
And the owner tells him move along, go linger somewhere else
[Chorus]
F C F G
Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
C F
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
C G Am
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
C G C
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
C F G C
[Verse 1]
C F G C
Monday morning sidewalk man, sits back to watch the show
C F G C
The rebar and the wet cement, transistor radio
Am G C F
He takes a pull from a paper bag, across the street on an old park bench
C Em7 Am7 F C
Oh, the big machines and rolled blueprints, stir something in his soul
[Verse 2]
C F G C
A memory comes winding through the ruin of his mind
C F G C
The hardhats and the heavy boots, the nail gun’s ringing whine
Am G C F
A jungle with the same sharp sound, his brothers falling all around
C Em7 Am7 F C
Oh, they built them up, just to tear them down, and left him half alive
[Chorus]
F C F G
Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
C F
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
C G C
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
[Instrumental]
C F G C x2
[Verse 3]
C F G C
He waits each day till evening falls, the men all drive away
C F G C
The echo of their hammers linger, voices slowly fade
Am G C F
The lights along the path come on, the scaffolding a skeleton
C Em7 Am7 F C
All the things he dreamed and then forgot, the promises he made
[Chorus]
F C F G
Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
C F
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
C G Am
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
C G C
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
[Bridge]
F C F G
And the moon shines on the river like a dream, and he smokes a cigarette and falls asleep
C F
And the wind it wanders slow through empty rooms without their walls
C G C
And a silence settles over everything
[Instrumental]
C F G C x2
[Verse 4]
C F G C
And from the ground it rises up, a riverside hotel
C F G C
The sidewalk man, he comes to watch near every day until
Am G C F
The ribbon cut and the curtains hung, the reservations filled and gone
C Em7 Am7 F C
And the owner tells him move along, go linger somewhere else
[Chorus]
F C F G
Someday I’m gonna laugh about it, looking down from heaven’s golden plain
C F
But for now I found some peace down by the water,
C G Am
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
C G C
just to watch a building rise up in the rain
Anna Who?
Anna Wise
Anna Yvette
Anna-Maria Zimme (...)
Annabel