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