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