STEER YOUR WAY
As recorded by Norah Jones
(From the 2022 Album HERE IT IS: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN)
Intro
[Gm]
Verse 1
[Gm]
Steer your way past the ruins of the altar and the mall
[Cm]
Steer your way through the fables of creation and the fall
[Gm]
Steer your way past the palaces that rise above the rot
[D] [Ebmaj7] [F]
Year by year, month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
Verse 2
[Gm]
Steer your heart past the truth you believed in yesterday
[Cm]
Such as fundamental goodness and the wisdom of the way
[Gm]
Steer your heart, precious heart, past the women whom you bought
[D] [Ebmaj7] [F]
Year by year, month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
Verse 3
[Gm]
Steer your way through the pain that is far more real than you
[Cm]
That smashed the cosmic model, that blinded every view
[Gm]
And please don't make me go there, though there be a God or not
[D7] [Ebmaj7] [F]
Year by year, month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
Chorus
[Eb]
They whisper still, the ancient stones
[Bb]
The blunted mountains weep
[Eb]
As he died to make men holy
[Bb]
Let us die to make things cheap
[F] [Eb]
And say the mea culpa, which you probably forgot
[D7] [Eb] [F]
Year by year, month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
Verse 4
[Gm]
Steer your way, o my heart, though I have no right to ask
[Cm]
To the one who was never, never equal to the task
[Gm]
Who knows he's been convicted, who knows he will be shot
[D] [Ebmaj7] [F]
Year by year, month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
Chorus
[Eb]
They whisper still, the injured stones
[Bb]
The blunted mountains weep
[Eb]
As he died to make men holy
[Bb]
Let us die to make things cheap
[F] [Eb]
And say your mea culpa, which you gradually forgot
[D] [Eb] [F]
Year by year, month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
Outro
[Eb] [F]
Month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
[Eb] [F]
Month by month, day by day
[Gm]
Thought by thought
[Gm]
