Death Cab for Cutie - Wheat Like Waves: chords

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Wheat like waves, Canadian plains
        A      G      Em             G
Were an ocean wide, flowing to the sky
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With Prefab Sprout echoing out
        A       G             Em         G
Of your 90's accord with the mismatched doors

Away from the wives
For just a few days
Traveling 'cross the divide
My delusions ablaze
But a homesteader's life
At 45 was just a fleeting dream
There's no way I'd survive

     G                           D
The winters in Saskatchewan are so cold

You talked of your kid
How frightened you'd been when she almost died
With tears in your eyes
But I could not pretend
To comprehend the depths of that kind of love
As a childless man

And there's so little time
So many miles to drive before the endless sleep
Eventually arrives
But I never would've thought that life was so long
That we'd be growing old
With stories untold

Chorus:
          G                           A
You were kindled by the dials on the dashboard
      G                                 D/F#  D
Your tattoos like the stamps upon your passport
  G                                 A
Speeding like we thought we were escaping
     G                                 D/F#  D
From everything we feared that we were breaking
    Em
By trying to hold them in our hands - x2