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