Jackson Browne - Farther On

      


      Dsus4/A  D/A     Asus4  A     
In my early    years I hid my tears
    Bm        G       D  
And passed my days alone
Bm            E      Asus4 A         
Adrift on an ocean of loneliness
    G          Asus4 A         D      
My dreams like nets were thrown
   Dsus4/A    D/A        Asus4     A  
To catch  the love that  I'd heard of
   Bm        G         D     
In books and films and songs
              Bm          E          Asus4 A    
Now there's a world of illusion and  fantasy
       G               Asus4 A     D       
In the place where the  real world belongs
        G            A         D     
Still I look for the beauty in songs

           F#m              A  
To fill my head and lead me on
          G           A                D     
Though my dreams have come up torn and empty
        A                          G    
As many times as love has come and gone


         Dsus4/A    D/A      Asus4  A    
To those gentle     ones  my memory runs
       Bm          G             D     
To the laughter we shared at the meals
Bm             E            Asus4   A     
I filled their kitchens and  living rooms
       G               Asus4 A         D    
With my schemes and my  broken wheels

       Dsus4/A   D/A       Asus4  A    
It was never     clear how far or near
    Bm           G          D 
The gates to my citadel lay 
          Bm           E          Asus4            A   
They were cutting from stone some  dreams of their own
         G           Asus4 A       D 
But they listened to  mine  anyway 
        G             A             D 
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say 

         F#m             A   
It could be I've lost my way
         G      A              D        
Though I keep a watch over the distance
            A                        G   
Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday

        D          A        F# 
And the angels are older    
     Bm               Bm/A           G 
They know not to wait up for the sun 
                  D         A/C# 
They look over my shoulder  
       Bm           Bm/A            E/G#            A  
At the maps and the drawings of the journey I've begun

Solo:
                 Asus4                             
|Dsus4/A  D/A  |  | A       |Bm   G   |D   A/C#  |
                 Asus4            Asus4              
|Bm       E    |  |A       |G      |A   |D         |
                 Asus4                            
|Dsus4/A  D/A  |  |A       |Bm   G   |D   A/C#  |
                 Asus4            Asus4              
|Bm       E    |  |A       |G      |A   |D         |

        G         A               D  
Now the distance leads me farther on
           F#m                    A    
Though the reasons I once had are gone
       G             A             D           
I keep thinking I'll find what I'm looking for
       A                G    
In the sand beneath the dawn


        D          A        F# 
But the angels are older    
     Bm               Bm/A           G   
They can see that the sun's setting fast
                  D         A/C# 
They look over my shoulder  
       Bm           Bm/A      E/G#                      A    
At the vision of paradise contained in the light of the past
        D          A        F# 
And they lay down behind me 
                    Bm            Bm/A           G 
To sleep beside the road till the morning has come
                          D       A/C# 
Where they know they will find me 
        Bm          Bm/A                G 
With my maps and my faith in the distance
       A       D      G  A 
Moving farther on        


|D   A/C#   |Bm    Bm/A    |G    A    |D      ||




Transcribed by Gerard Koot (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) November 2006
Email:  gerardkoot@hotmail.com