Passing Afternoon

Artist: Iron and wine (English)
User: Emma Bishop
Duration: 190 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
Chord names: Default
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December 12, 2025, 5:49 PM
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[Verse 1]
 C                               D
There are times that walk from you
           G              C
Like some passing afternoon
 G                 D/F#          C             D
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
 C                        D
And she chose a yard to burn
         G                C
But the ground remembers her
 G                   D/F#               C             D
Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms
 
 
[Verse 2]
 C                             D
There are things that drift away
          G                   C
Like our endless numbered days
 G                D/F#                 C                 D
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
           C                D
And she's chosen to believe
         G                C
In the hymns her mother sings
 G                 D/F#                 C                D
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves
 
 
[Verse 3]
 C                             D
There are sailing ships that pass
         G               C
All our bodies in the grass
 G                    D/F#                C                 D
Springtime calls her children 'til she lets them go at last
             C                D
And she's chosen where to be
                G                 C
Though she's lost her wedding ring
 G                  D/F#               C               D 
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds
 
 
[Verse 4]
            C                 D
There are things we can't recall
          G                     C
Blind as night that finds us all
 G                D/F#                C              D
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
        C                D
But my hands remember hers
          G                  C
Rolling 'round the shaded ferns
 G               D/F#                  C                   D
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned
 
 
[Verse 5]
            C                 D
There are names across the sea
       G           C
Only now I do believe
 G                   D/F#                     C                 D
Sometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me
            C                   D
But she'll mend his tattered clothes
              G                 C
And they'll kiss as if they know
 G                D/F#                 C              D
A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone

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