Wolves
by Josh Ritter
chords dissected by Matt Rowley
(rough sketch of the) piano intro:
E---------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------3-----
G-------------------------------2--2---2-2----
D-2---2-4-2-0---0-2--2-4-2-0----0--0---0-0----
A-------------2--------------2--0-------------
E---------------------------------------------
D (D)
I still remember that time when we were dancing
Em G
We were dancing to a song that I'd heard
D (D)
Your face was simple and your hands were naked
Em G
I was singing without knowing the words
D (D)
But I started listening to the wolves in the timber
Em G
Wolves in the timber at night
D
I heard their songs when I looked in the mirror
Em G
In the howls and the moons round my eyes
D
So long, so high
Em G
So long, so high
(X2)
D (D)
Then winter came and there was little left between us
Em G
Skin and bones of love won't make a meal
D (D)
I felt my eyes drifting over your shoulder
(Em) G
There were wolves at the edge of the field
D (D)
But I still remember that time when we were dancing
Em G
We were dancing to a song that I'd heard
D (D)
Your face was simple and your hands were naked
Em G
I was singing without knowing the words
D
So long, so high
Em G
So long, so high
(X2)
D
Then one day I just woke up
(D)
And the wolves were all there
Em
Wolves in the piano
G
Wolves underneath the stairs
D
Wolves inside the hinges
(D)
Circling round my door
Em
At night inside the bedsprings
G
Clicking cross the floor
D
I still don't know how they found me
(D)
I'll never know quite how
Em
I still can't believe they heard me
G
That I was howling out that loud
D
So long, so high
Em G
So long, so high
(X2)
[interlude, same chords]
D (D)
Sometimes in the frozen nights I go roaming
Em G
In the bed she used to share with me
D
I wake in the fields
(D)
with the cold and the lonesome
Em G
The moon's the only face that I see
D (D)
I still remember that time when we were dancing
Em G
We were dancing to a song that I'd heard
D (D)
Your face was simple and your hands were naked
Em G
I was singing without knowing the words
D
So long, so high
Em G
So long, so high
(X2)
[Outro, same chords, with some electric guitar noodling]