Songbook

Like the Wheel

By The Tallest Man on Earth

Key of G

[Verse]
G                     Gmaj7           Em
  Oh I wish I was the sparrow in your kid's eye
       C            D              G
Like a fly above is summer all day long
                    Gmaj7           Em
On an island in the heart he has to carry
         C             D             G
Past the many you have let into your song

[Chorus]
G            C     D           G     C
  And I said oh my lord why am I not strong
                    D               G         C
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
                         D        G
Like the wheel that will take you home

[Verse]
G                              Gmaj7           Em
  And in the forest someone is whispering to a tree now
        C           D                   G
This is all I am so please don't follow me
                             Gmaj7          Em
And it's your brother in the shaft that I'm swinging
               C              D              G
Please let the kindness of forgetting set me free

[Chorus]
G            C     D           G     C
  And I said oh my lord why am I not strong
                    D               G         C
Like the wheel that keeps travelers traveling on
                         D        G
Like the wheel that will take you home

[Verse]
G                              Gmaj7           Em
  And on this Sunday someone's sitting down to wonder
          C                D                G
Where the hell among these mountains will I be?
                           Gmaj7              Em
There's a cloud behind the cloud to which I'm yelling
        C               D             G
I could hear you sneak around so easily

[Chorus]
G            C     D           G     C
  And I said oh my lord why am I not strong
                     D             G       C
Like the branch that keeps hangmen hanging on
                          D       G
Like the branch that will take me home