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