Thoroughfare Gap Chords & Lyrics by Stephen Stills

Thoroughfare Gap

guitar chords lyrics

Stephen Stills

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Thoroughfare Gap chords
Stephen Stills

G C G D G C G D

G C G
Sometimes I consider my pace,
D G C
I'm reminded of a train gathering speed,
G D

for the climb to the pass

G C G
In whose shadow it all really lies,
D G C
a small metal wagon approaching,
G D
the ever present ascending rise;
G C G D
to the southern mountains

G C G
Reeling and snaking and leaping,
D G C
it seems like it wants to come loose,
G D
from its path cast in iron

G C G
But she can't slow down now,
D G C
as the earth has presented,
G C
a new crest to reach
G D
without barely a rest;
G C G D
from the last one

G C G
And you wonder just what lies beyond,
D G C
though you've been there before,
G D
and forget about the effort and the strain

G C
Always ascending,
G D
each yard adds a mile,
G C
to the never-ending pull,
G D
of the steepening grade;
G C G D G C G D
that's before you

G C G D
A valley, A forest, A desert, A stream,
G C
with an oversized bridge,
G D
for the trickle there beneath

G C
You remember the torrent,
G D
it turned to last spring,
G C
from the snows melting fast
G D
and the river it became;
G C G D
in the summer

G C
Perhaps it is ruined,
G D
from a fire that has scorched it,
G C
so badly that nothing
G D
will grow without rain

G C
To wash away the blackened soil,
G D G
now useless till called upon again,
C G D
in a future as twisted and far away;
G C G D
as the next range of mountains

G C G
So take it as far as you see
D
and beyond,
G C
with eyes you don't use enough,
G D
gather up strength

G C
As Thoroughfare Gap,
G D
will await you forever,
G C
you're seeking to get there
G D
for even before;
C
it's no matter;
D
no distance;
G C G Gsus4 G
it's the ride


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