Love's Recovery
Emily Saliers

Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
1989

I heard an a capella group from Williams College do this
tune, and decided I had to figure it out.  It's a wonderful
song and I hope you enjoy it.

Chords

Drop D Tuning: DADGBE (low-to-high)
Capo 3rd

INTRO (play 2x):

   D             G                 D                  A
   +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +      +   +   +   +     +   +   +   +
e:-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B:-----------------|------------------|---0-------------|-----------------|
G:-----2---------0-|-----------0------|---0-------0-----|---2-------2-----|
D:-----------0-----|-----0---------4--|-------4-------2-|-------2---------|
A:-------------0---|------------------|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0h2-|
E:-0-------0-------|-0-------0---0----|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|

To play the verse, just pick the chords similar to intro.

           D               G
During the time of which I speak
                                D
It was hard to turn the other cheek
G                      Asus4      A
   To the blows of insecurity
            D            G
Feeding the cancer of my intellect
    D               G
The blood of love soon neglected
D                   G                 Asus4   A
   Lay dying in the strength of its impurity

CHORUS
              G*                           G#º
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
            A                               G
They've all gone and left each other in the search of fairer weather
       D               G                 Asus4
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
            A                  D
To the slim chance of love's recovery

play intro


There I am in younger days
Star-gazing painting picture-perfect maps
Of how my life and love would be
Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection
My compass faith in love's perfection
I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen

CHORUS
Meanwhile our friends we thought were so together
Left each other one by one in search of fairer weather
And we sit here in our storm and drink a toast
            A                  D
To the slim chance of love's recovery

G	D	A

BRIDGE
A                                 G
Rain soaked and voice choked like silent screaming in a dream
  D              G*                 G#º
I search for our absolute distinction
A                                  G
Not content to bow and bend to the whims of culture that swoop like vultures
D
Eating us away eating us away
G                       Asus4    A
Eating us away to our extinction

Asus4  A


Oh how I wish I was a trinity
So if I lost a part of me
I'd still have two of the same to live
But nobody gets a lifetime rehearsal
As specks of dust we're universal
To let this love survive would be the greatest gift that we could give

CHORUS
Tell all the friends who think they're so together
That these are ghosts and mirages these thoughts of fairer weather
Though it's storming out I feel safe
Within the arms of love's discovery

play intro 2x

end on D


CHORDS (Drop-D):

D	000232
G	5x0003
G*	55570x
G#º5	65670x
A	x02220

To learn why these chords are named this way, check out Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory.