Watershed Lyrics

WATERSHED (Emily Saliers)
[Emily fingerpicks most of the song except for the bridge and possibly the
last chorus; her guitar has the low E tuned down to D. Amy strums all the
chords, and I don't know if her guitar has the low E tuned down.]
[Do NOT rely on the chord names in the verse and chorus; refer to the tabla-
ture for fingerings. The strummed chords in the bridge are: Bm7(4)=x20230;
E7=x20130; C(9)=x32033; G=x20033; A7=x02020; A7sus4=x02030.]
[As written, each chord is half a measure, except pairs of chords joined by
hyphens are a half-measure _total_.]
in[
tro]
Thought I knew my mind like the back of my hand
The gold and the rainbow, but nothing panned out as I planned
The gold and the rainbow, but nothing panned out as I planned
They say only milk and honey's gonna make your soul satisfied
Well I better learn how to swim
'Cause the crossing is chilly and wide
Twisted guardrail on the highway, broken glass on the cement
The ghost of someone's tragedy, how recklessly my time has been spent
They say that it's never too late, you don't get any younger
Well I better learn how to starve the emptiness
And feed the hunger
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize
Gmaj7 E7/G# A7 A13 A7no3 A7no3
Till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies, get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face the path at your pace, every choice is
worth your while
And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path
Every five years/days or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh
You start at the top, go full circle round, catch a breeze, take a spill
But ending up where I started again makes me wanna stand still
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize, till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies, get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face the path at your pace, every choice is
worth your while
Stepping on a crack
Breaking up and looking back
Every tree limb overhead just seems to sit and wait
stop
C(9) C(9) G A7 A7sus4 A7
Till every step you take becomes a twist of fate
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize, till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies, get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face the path at your pace, every choice is
worth your while
Up on the watershed, standing at the fork in the road
You can stand there and agonize, till your agony's your heaviest load
You'll never fly as the crow flies, get used to a country mile
When you're learning to face the path at your pace, every choice is
worth your while
rep[m7/
eat and fade, same as intro]
TAB:
= is a hammer-on; ~ is a bend.
INTRO (and outro):
A ----------------0=4-------------|0=2-----2-------0=2-----2-------|
D 0-------0---------------0-------|----------------------------3~--|
A ----------------0=4-----4-------|0=2-----2-------0=2-----2-------|
Thought I knew my
VERSE:
A ----------------0=4-----4-------|0=2-----2-------0=2-----2-------|
mind like the back of my
A ----------------0=4-----4-------|0=2-----2-------0=2-----2-------|
hand The gold and the
A ----------------0=4-----4-------|0=2-----2-------0=2-----2-------|
rain - bow, but nothing panned out as I'd
planned They say only
E --------------------------------|--------------------------------|[These can
B ----------7-----7=8-------8-----|7---------7-----7=8-------8-----| also be
G ------5---------------5---------|------5---------------5---------| played
D ----7-------7-------7-------7---|----7-------7-------7-------7---| xx0212 &
A 5-------5-------5-------5-------|5-------5-------5-------5-------| xx0213!]
milk and honey's gonna make your soul satis -
-fied Well I better learn how to
j7
swim 'cause the crossing is chilly and wide
us4
(...wide)
[First verse is the same, but ends with A7sus A13sus A7sus A13sus,
strummed: x02033 x02032 x02030 x02032]
CHORUS:
B ----------3-------3-------3-----|0=1-------1-------1-------1-----|
...watershed, standing at the fork in the
road You can stand there and
agonize till your agony's your heav - iest
A7 A13 A7no3
load You'll never fly as the
crow flies, get used to a country mile
(...mile) When you're learning to
face the path at your pace, every choice is worth your
us4
while And there's always...
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com