John My Beloved Chords by Sufjan Stevens

[Start]

[Intro]
G C G D7
■ ■ ■ ■ 


[Verse]
          D7                         
Are we to speak first day of the week
          G               
Stumbling words at the bar
G                                 
Beauty blue eyes my order of fries
C           G            D   
Long Island kindness and wine
D                                 
Beloved of John I get it all wrong
               C                
I read you for some kind of poem
C                                  
Covered in lines the fossils I find
             G                
Have they no life of their own
G                        
So can we pretend sweetly
C          G           
Before the mystery ends
                  C          G7     
I am a man with a heart that offends
         C7     G7  G      D7     
With its lonely and greedy demands
                         G       C         G                
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead
                  Bm            
Such a waste your beautiful face
C         G      D    
Stumbling carpet arise
Am7            G        Bm    Bm7             
Go follow your gem your white feathered friend
C      G            D  
Icarus point to the sun
   C       G         Bm       Bm7  
If history speaks of two baby teeth
    C            G              D  
I'm painting the hills blue and red
Am7       G      Bm7                
They said beware Lord hear my prayer
C              G              D   
I've wasted my throes on your head
G            Bm7            
So can we be friends sweetly
C          G       D   
Before the mystery ends
           C                       G      
I love you more than the world can contain
       C          G          D   
In its lonely and ramshackle head
G              D         G       C         G            D   
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead


[Inst]
Am7 Em7 Bm G D Am7
■   ■   ■  ■ ■ ■  
Em7 Bm7 G D
■   ■   ■ ■


[Verse]
    Am7        G     
I'm holding my breath
Bm Bm7                 
My tongue on your chest
C           G          D    
What can be said of my heart
   Am      G          Bm              
If history speaks the kiss on my cheek
            G             D   
Where there remains but a mark


[Chorus]
           G       Bm           
Beloved my John so I'll carry on
C           G             D  
Counting my cards down to one
Am            Em        Bm    D  Bm 
And when I am dead come visit my bed
C            G             D  
My fossil is bright in the sun
G      Asus4 D       Bm7        D
So can we    contend peacefully ■
C      G          D   
Before my history ends
        C           Dsus4 G                
Jesus I need you be near  me come shield me
C                 G          D   
From fossils that fall on my head
G              D         G       C         G            D   
There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead


[End]