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