Intro
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[Verse 1]
Bm D Bm D
Folds in the wind; the wake of rock and pen
Bm D Bm D
O you mystery: can the mind fit in the brain?
[Hook 1]
G
The drop of a jaw
D
The click of a tongue
A Bm
Larynx and lung
G D F#m
To etchings in clay of glyphs and cuneiform;
(x2)
[Verse 2]
G D A
Once the "farmer", not the "man-on-the-farm"
G D A
Our ziggurat bricks all baked up from the ground
G D A D G
But that day she fell like cold water on my comfortably ignorant skin
D A
I knew our life defined our words unalike…
G A D
When I woke, we were smoke on a tight rope afloat on the notion:
Bm G D F#m
"if all of this is arbitrary, why does it happen at all?"
G D A
And it's been years of my trying to make sense of one week
(Drop of the jaw, the click of the tongue, larnyx and lung)
Bm G D F#m
I didn't know it then, but that verse she penned--I found in her log--would ruin me:
(To etchings in clay of glyphs and cuneiform)
[Verse 3]
G D A D
"O dear heart, locked away
G D A
Given but description of a window to light your way
G A D
Would dare thee bell, a song to sing?
G D
Take care, the way out is more damaging."
[Interlude 1]
G D Bm A
G Bm F#m
G D Bm A
G Bm F#m
[Hook 2]
A Em
One says a word, one in turn interprets it
E A
But when unique things use generic means…is anything ever being said?
A Bm
One says a word, one in turn interprets it
Em E A
But when unique things use generic means
[Hook 3]
G D Bm D
"It's the gaps between the waves that make the tones we hear realizable.
G D Bm
"It's the gaps between...
G D Bm Em
"It's the gaps between the waves that make the tones we hear realizable.
G Bm D Bm C#m
Still every crest is aching to shake to be as one!
[Spoken words]
D
[Interlude 2]
G D A
(x4)
[Build-Up]
G D A
"R F# C"
G D A
"O N S"
G D A
"T R U"
G D A
"D T"
G D A
"R F# C" They're falling now, They're calling out
G D A
"O N S"
G D A
"T R U" They're falling now, They're calling out
G D A
"D T" To know...
G D A
"R F# C" They're falling now, They're calling out!
G D A
"O N S" To know their worth!
G D A
"T R U" They're falling now, They're calling out!
G D A
"D T" To know their worth!
N.C.
[Breakdown]
G D A
The parts ache for resolve!
"R F# C" They're falling now, They're calling out!
G D A
My parts ache for resolve!
"O N S" To know their worth!
G D A
The parts ache for resolve!
"T R U" They're falling now, They're calling out!
G D A
My parts ache for resolve!
"D T" To know their worth!
[Outro]
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My parts ache for resolve