Wilco - Remember the mountain bed

^DDo you still sing of the ^Amountain bed we ^Gmade of limbs and leaves? Do you still sigh there near the sky where the ^Dholly berry ^Ableeds? You ^Bmlaughed as I covered you^G over with leaves F^Emace, breast, hips and ^Gthighs ^DYou smiled when I said the ^Cleaves were ^Emjust the ^Gcolor of your ^Deyes

^DRosin smells and turpenti^Ane smells from e^Gucalyptus and pine Bitter tastes of twigs we chewed where tangled ^Dwoodbines tw^Aine Tree^Bms held us in on all four^G sides so t^Emhick we could not see ^{G D}I could not see any wrong i^Cn you, and y^Emou saw no^Gne in me ^D

^DYour arm was brown agains^At the ground, yo^Gur cheeks part of the sky Your fingers played with grassy moss, as limber^D you did lie^A Your^Bm stomach moved beneath y^Gour shirt and ^Emyour knees were in the a^Gir ^DYour feet played games with^C mountain ro^Emots as yo^Gu lay thinking^D there

^DBelow us the trees grew c^Alumps of trees r^Gaised families of trees, and they As proud as we tossed their heads in the wind a^Dnd flung goo^Ad seeds away The ^Bmsun was hot and the sun ^Gwas bright down^Em in the valley below ^{G D}Where people starved and hu^Cngry for lif^Eme so empt^Gy come and go ^D

^DThere in the shade and hi^Ad from the sun w^Ge free'd our minds and learned Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies ^Dmoved and bu^Arned Ther^Bme on our mountain bed of^G leaves we l^Emearned life's reason why^{G D}People laugh and love and d^Cream, they f^Emight and ^Gthey hate to d^Die

^DThe smell of your hair I ^Aknow is still th^Gere, if most of our leaves are blown Our words still ring in the brush and the trees^D where singi^Ang seeds are sown Your^Bm shape and form is dim, ^Gbut plain ther^Eme on our mountain bed ^{G D}I see my life was brightest^C where you l^Emaughed an^Gd laid your he^Dad

^DI learned the reason why ^Aman must work an^Gd how to dream big dreams To conquer time and space and fight the rivers ^Dand the seas^A I st^Bmand here filled with my ^Gemptiness now and ^Emlook at city and land ^{G D}I know why farms and cities^C are built b^Emy hot war^Gm nervous hand^Ds

^DI've crossed many states ^Ajust to stand he^Gre now, my face all hot with tears I've crossed city and valley, desert and stream^D to bring my^A body here My h^Bmistory and future blaze ^Gbright in me and ^Emall my joy and pain ^{G D}Go through my head on our m^Countain bed ^Emwhere I s^Gmell your hair^D again

^DAll this day long I linge^Ar here and on in^G through the night My greeds, my joys, my cravings, hopes, my drea^Dms inside me^A fight My l^Bmoneliness healed, my emp^Gtiness filled I wa^Emlk above all pain ^{G D}Back to the breast of my wo^Cman and chil^Emd to scat^Gter my seeds a^Dgain...