Thin Blue Flame by Josh Ritter chords dissected by Matt Rowley capo 1 Intro: C F E--0-----1------------- B--1-----1------------- G--0-----0h2---x4------ D--0h2---3------------- A--3------------------- E---------------------- C F I became a thin blue flame C F Polished on a mountain range C F And over hills and fields I flew C F Wrapped up in a royal blue Am I flew over Royal City last night C A bullfighter on the horns of a new moon's light Am Caesaršs ghost I saw the war-time tides C The prince of Denmark's father still unquiet Am And the whole world was looking to get drowned C Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds Am I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew C Only a full house gonna make it through C F I became a thin blue wire C F That held the world above the fire C F And so it was I saw behind C F Heaven's just a thin blue line Am If God's up there He's in a cold dark room C The heavenly host are just the cold dark moons Am He bent down and made the world in seven days C And ever since He's been a-walking away Am Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes C Where neither seraphim nor raindrops go Am I see an old man wandering the halls alone C Only a full house gonna make a home C F And I became a thin blue stream C F The smoke between asleep and dreams C F And in that clear blue undertow C F I saw Royal City far below Am Borders soft with refugees C Streets a-swimming with amputees Am It's a Bible or a bullet they put over your heart C It's getting harder and harder to tell them apart Am Days are nights and the nights are long C Beating hearts blossom into walking bombs Am And those still looking in the clear blue sky for a sign C Get missiles from so high they might as well be divine Am Now the wolves are howling at our door C Singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord Am Bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round C They're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found Am If what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high C It's a Hell of a Heaven we must go to when we die Am Where even Laurel begs Hardy for vengeance please C The fat man is crying on his hands and his knees Am Back in the peacetime he caught roses on the stage C Now he twists indecision takes bourbon for rage Am Lead pellets peppering aluminum G Halcyon, laudanum and Opium Am Sings kiss thee Hardy this poisoned cup G His winding sheet is busy winding up Am In darkness he looks for the light that has died G But you need faith for the same reasons that it's so hard to find Am And this whole thing is headed for a terrible wreck G And like good tragedy that's what we expect C - F x4 Am At night I make plans for a city laid down C Like the hips of a girl on the spring covered ground Am Spirals and capitals like the twist of a script C Streets named for heroes that could almost exist Am The fruit trees of Eden and the gardens that seem C To float like the smoke from a lithium dream Am Cedar trees growing in the cool of the squares C The young women walking in the portals of prayer Am And the future glass buildings and the past an address C And the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless Am And all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right C The suffering verbs put to sleep in the night Am The future descending like a bright chandelier G And the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer Am In Royal City I fell into a trance G Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance Am - G x8 C - F x2 C F I woke beneath a clear blue sky C F The sun a shout, the breeze a sigh C F The old hometown and the streets I knew C F Were wrapped up in a royal blue Am I heard my friends laughing out across the fields C The girls in the gloaming and the birds on the wheel Am The raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay C Cicadas electric in the heat of the day Am A run of Three Sisters and the flush of the land C And the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand Am The straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts C They were coming together they're pulling apart Am And angels everywhere were in my midst C In the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed Am I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above C Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up Am So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air C Only a full house gonna have a prayer Am - C x3 Only a full house... Am - C x3 Only a full house... Am - C x8 end on Am. (and some feedback) :)