Mark Kozelek – By The Time That I Awoke chords

4x Gm A# D# D#

Gm          A#                D#I like the powder blue dresses
                                  GmThe stewardesses wear on Korean Air.
              A#                        D#The skin's divine and their bodies so fine.
                                                      GmThey're all the same height and they have the same waistline.
              A#               D#But there is one who stood apart
                          GmHer name-tag read "J.H. Park."
                   A#             D#She had a white watch and a muted spark,
                                             FAnd I thought about her when the night grew dark

       Gm               D#And my hotel room in Tokyo,
                         FAnd by the time that I awoke,
                Gm                      D#My guitar was broken and in need of repair.
                               FThanks for the hassles, Korean Air.
                 Gm                      D#But I hurled myself through one last show
                                       FAnd I made a few friends, Shoko and Koko.
                  Gm                    D#Walked them down to the train station below,
                                         
Hugged them goodbye and as I walked back I...


Gm            A#              D#Remembered a girl who I had lost.
                             GmShe grew up in a cardboard box
       A#               D#In a town called Dharma.
                                       GmShe shook my spirit and she rattled my thoughts.
          A#               D#But I had some love back home,    
                                           Gm So I never pursued it or called her telephone number.
    A#                    D#I wonder if she knew that I had reason,
                                     FI wonder if she thought that I had used her.

             Gm            D#And by the time that I awoke,
                                
Around my neck I felt fingers choke.
F           Gm                     D#I felt a jolt of an electrical sting,
                                  FI felt the pull of an invisible string.
            Gm          D#Is it my future falling?

Or is it the past still calling?
F                      Gm                       D#I can't remember and you can't make me remember

Anything that hurts or makes me shiver.

A#                 D#                    Gm         I can't remember and you can't make me remember
                 FMy dirty reflection shimmering in the rain.
A#                    D#                    Gm    I can't remember and you can't make me remember
                   FOld forgotten blues when we opened my house.
A#                 D#                    Gm        FI can't remember and you can't make me remember.
A#                 D#                    Gm        F I can't remember and you can't make me remember.


2# Gm F A# A#


Gm              A#                    D#Was five years old the last time I slept
                                    GmA quiet night before the loudness crept.
                     A#           D#I wrote poetry throughout my teens,
                                    GmAnd I far exceeded my childhood dreams.
                    A#           D#Teachers told me I couldn't write,
                                           GmThat I'd never make a living or touch anyone's life.
                  A#           D#People told me I couldn't sing,
                                        FThat I wouldn't amount to much of anything.

             Gm          D#And by the time that I awoke,

I was 25 years old and crossing an oceans,
F           Gm                D#Working hard to develop my sound
                                  FGoing city to city, covering ground.
             Gm              D#And by the time that I had awoke
                                   FI was one of a handful of the chosen
              Gm                 D#To take the punches to take the arrows
                                       
To bleed the blood, the blood of sweat.


A#                 D#                    Gm     I can't remember and you can't make me remember
                          FAny hurtful words that I endured.
A#                 D#                    Gm     I can't remember and you can't make me remember
                    FWhen I was a lost flockless bird.
A#                 D#                    Gm     I can't remember and you can't make me remember
                 FWhen I couldn't trap bumblebees.
A#                 D#                    Gm     I can't remember and you can't make me remember
         F                Gm F A# A# Gm F A# A#Why in a crowd I am so lonely.

Gm              A#           D#I met the most beautiful lover,
                                 GmWalking along the San Francisco Bay.
                 A#           D#She guides me through the perils,
                              GmThrough the long, unlit hallways.
                  A#                    D#Below the surface, beneath the distractions

Beneath my dumb, knee-jerk reactions.
Gm              A#           D#It's to her I owe everything,

It is for her that my heart sings.

Gm         A#               D#And by the time that I awoke
                               Gmthe fingers loosened on their choke
            A#           D#And by the time that I awoke.