Soria Moria (CHORDS) by Mount Eerie
Artist: Mount Eerie
Album: A Crow Looked at Me
Released: 2017
Genre: Rock
[Refrain]~
Em C
Slow pulsing red tower lights
C Am
Across a distance,..!! refuge in the dust
[Verse 1]~
Em C
All my life I can remember longing
Am Bm
Looking across the water and seeing lights
Em C
When I was five or six,..!! we were camping in the islands in July
Am Bm
The tall yellow grass and the rose hips fragrant
Em C
After sunset,..!! island beyond island
Am Bm
Undulating and familiar,..!! not far from home
Em C Am
With my fragrant,..!! whittled,..!! cedared drift wood dagger in the mildew canvas tent
Bm Em
I saw fireworks many miles away but didn't hear them
C Am
And I felt a longing,..!! a childish melancholy
Bm
And then I went to sleep
Em C Am Bm
And the aching was buried,..!! dreaming,..!! aging,..!! reaching for an idea of somewhere other than this place
Em C
That could fold me in clouded yearning
Am Bm
For nowhere actually reachable,..!! the distance was the point
[Instrumental]~
Em C Am Bm C D Gbm Bm
[Verse 2]~
Em
And then when I was twenty-four
C Am Bm
I followed this ache to an Arctic Norwegian cabin
Em C
Where I said "fuck the world" in a finally satisfying way
Am Bm
I stayed through the winter and emerged as an adult
Em C
Holding a letter from you,..!! an invitation
Am
So I flew back and drove back
Bm Em C
And when we met in person it was instant
Am Bm
It didn't matter where we lived as long as we were together
Em C
And that was really true for thirteen years
Am Bm
And the whole time still
Em
[Refrain]~
C
Slow pulsing red tower lights
C Am Em
Across a distance,..!! refuge in the dust
[Verse 3]~
Em C
In January,..!! you were alive still
Am Bm Em
But chemo had ravaged and transformed your porcelain into some other thing
C
Something jaundiced and fucked
Am Bm
They put you in the hospital in Everett
Em C Am
So I gave the baby away and drove up and down I-5 every night
Bm Em
Like a satellite bringing you food that you wanted
C Am Bm
Returning at night to sleep in our bed,..!! cold
Em C
I went back to feel alone there
Am Bm
All past selves and future possibilities on hold
Em C
Well I tore through the dark on the freeway
Am Bm Em
The old yearning burning in me
Em C
I knew exactly where the road bent around
Am Bm
Where the trees opened up and I could see
Em C Em C
Way above the horizon,..!! beyond innumerable islands
Em C Am Bm
The towers on top of the mountain lit up slowly,..!! silently beaconing
Em C Am
As if to say "just keep going
Bm Em C
There is a place where a wind could erase this for you
Am Bm Em
And the branches could white noise you back awake"
C Am Bm
So I went back to feel alone there but cradled you in me
[Instrumental]~
Em C Am Bm C D Gbm Bm
[Verse 4]~
Em C
In the National Gallery in Oslo
Am Bm
There's a painting called Soria Moria
Em C Am Bm Em C Am Bm C Gbm Bm
A kid looks across a deep canyon of fog at a lit up inhuman castle or something
Em C Am Bm
I have not stopped looking across the water from the few difficult spots where you can see
Em C Am Bm Em C
That the distance from this haunted house where I lived to Soria Moria is a real traversable space
Am Bm
I'm an arrow now
Em C
Mid-air
Em
[Refrain]~
C
Slow pulsing red tower lights
C Am
Across a distance,..!! refuge in the dust
Album: A Crow Looked at Me
Released: 2017
Genre: Rock
[Refrain]~
Em C
Slow pulsing red tower lights
C Am
Across a distance,..!! refuge in the dust
[Verse 1]~
Em C
All my life I can remember longing
Am Bm
Looking across the water and seeing lights
Em C
When I was five or six,..!! we were camping in the islands in July
Am Bm
The tall yellow grass and the rose hips fragrant
Em C
After sunset,..!! island beyond island
Am Bm
Undulating and familiar,..!! not far from home
Em C Am
With my fragrant,..!! whittled,..!! cedared drift wood dagger in the mildew canvas tent
Bm Em
I saw fireworks many miles away but didn't hear them
C Am
And I felt a longing,..!! a childish melancholy
Bm
And then I went to sleep
Em C Am Bm
And the aching was buried,..!! dreaming,..!! aging,..!! reaching for an idea of somewhere other than this place
Em C
That could fold me in clouded yearning
Am Bm
For nowhere actually reachable,..!! the distance was the point
[Instrumental]~
Em C Am Bm C D Gbm Bm
[Verse 2]~
Em
And then when I was twenty-four
C Am Bm
I followed this ache to an Arctic Norwegian cabin
Em C
Where I said "fuck the world" in a finally satisfying way
Am Bm
I stayed through the winter and emerged as an adult
Em C
Holding a letter from you,..!! an invitation
Am
So I flew back and drove back
Bm Em C
And when we met in person it was instant
Am Bm
It didn't matter where we lived as long as we were together
Em C
And that was really true for thirteen years
Am Bm
And the whole time still
Em
[Refrain]~
C
Slow pulsing red tower lights
C Am Em
Across a distance,..!! refuge in the dust
[Verse 3]~
Em C
In January,..!! you were alive still
Am Bm Em
But chemo had ravaged and transformed your porcelain into some other thing
C
Something jaundiced and fucked
Am Bm
They put you in the hospital in Everett
Em C Am
So I gave the baby away and drove up and down I-5 every night
Bm Em
Like a satellite bringing you food that you wanted
C Am Bm
Returning at night to sleep in our bed,..!! cold
Em C
I went back to feel alone there
Am Bm
All past selves and future possibilities on hold
Em C
Well I tore through the dark on the freeway
Am Bm Em
The old yearning burning in me
Em C
I knew exactly where the road bent around
Am Bm
Where the trees opened up and I could see
Em C Em C
Way above the horizon,..!! beyond innumerable islands
Em C Am Bm
The towers on top of the mountain lit up slowly,..!! silently beaconing
Em C Am
As if to say "just keep going
Bm Em C
There is a place where a wind could erase this for you
Am Bm Em
And the branches could white noise you back awake"
C Am Bm
So I went back to feel alone there but cradled you in me
[Instrumental]~
Em C Am Bm C D Gbm Bm
[Verse 4]~
Em C
In the National Gallery in Oslo
Am Bm
There's a painting called Soria Moria
Em C Am Bm Em C Am Bm C Gbm Bm
A kid looks across a deep canyon of fog at a lit up inhuman castle or something
Em C Am Bm
I have not stopped looking across the water from the few difficult spots where you can see
Em C Am Bm Em C
That the distance from this haunted house where I lived to Soria Moria is a real traversable space
Am Bm
I'm an arrow now
Em C
Mid-air
Em
[Refrain]~
C
Slow pulsing red tower lights
C Am
Across a distance,..!! refuge in the dust
