West Virginia Sky Chords

WEST VIRGINIA SKY
As recorded by Jett Holden
(2024 release)
 
 
 
[Intro]
D  Am  C  G
 
 
[Verse 1]
  D                            Am
A phoenix up in Harper's Ferry roosts within the trees
         C                                G
Shedding feathers that all dance upon the early autumn breeze
  D                         Am
A fire fills the sky as the sun ventures out west
     C                                 G
To a place called the horizon where he rests
 
 
[Chorus]
                      D                             Am
And dreams of endless darkness and stars far out of reach
                   Cmaj7
Where planets only stay, cause they're trapped by his gravity
G                      D                                       Am
But they never come to visit, cause they've got their own satellites now
                       Cmaj7                                    G               D  Am
And when the nightmare ends, he wakes to break the day over the West Virginia Sky
               C      G
The West Virginia Sky
 
 
[Verse 2]
   D                             Am
He rises in the east to see that everything has changed
    C                               G
Her feathers fell away from all the chemo that she takes
        D                                 Am
But the phoenix wasn't worried, cause she always bounces back
        C                            G
The sun tries to be an optimist like that
 
 
[Chorus]
                      D                             Am
But dreams of endless darkness and stars far out of reach
                   C
Where planets only stay, cause they're trapped by his gravity
G                      D                                       Am
But they never come to visit, cause they've got their own satellites now
                       C                                        G               D  Am
And when the nightmare ends, he wakes to break the day over the West Virginia Sky
               C
The West Virginia Sky
 
 
[Interlude]
G  D  Am  C  G
 
 
[Verse 3]
    D                               Am
The winter took the last of all the feathers that she had
    C                             G
She withered in December, but she never did come back
      D                           Am
But a phoenix always rises, so he knows where she'll end up
               C                        G
And he'll keep rising til his supernova comes
 
 
[Chorus]
                      D                             Am
And dreams of endless darkness and stars far out of reach
                   Cmaj7
Where planets only stay, cause they're trapped by his gravity
G                      D                                       Am
But they never come to visit, cause they've got their own satellites now
                       Cmaj7                                    G               D  Am
And when the nightmare ends, he wakes to break the day over the West Virginia Sky
               C    G  D
The West Virginia Sky
 
 
[Outro]
Am  C  G  D
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