Big Sur

From the 2009 album "One Fast Move or I'm Gone" w/Benjamin Gibbard

Capo 2

D Em

Settling down with warm glow woodstove and kerosene


G D

Peace you're looking for Peace you'll find

Em


In the tangled mad cliffsides and crashing dark

G

of Big Sur

A

of Big Sur

D Em


Rapturous ring of silence Pacific fury

G D


Flashing on the rocks the sea shroud towers

Em


The innocence of health and stillness in the wilds

G

of Big Sur

A

of Big Sur

Em G


This whole surface of the world as we know it now

Em G


Will be covered with the silt of a billion years in time

Verse chords for interlude

D Em

I see as much as doors will allow

G A


I’m a long way from the beat generation

D Em


Here comes the nightly moth to his nightly death


G

in Big Sur

A

in Big Sur

D Em


The best thing to do is not to be false

G A


The rocks of the valley have left no howl of complaint

D Em 


I’m just a sick clown and so is everybody else


G

in Big Sur

A

in Big Sur

Verse Chords again, end on D