Intro
G
[Verse 1]
Em G Em G
Folds in the wind; the wake of rock and pen
Em G Em 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 Em
Larynx and lung
C G Bm
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:
Em C G Bm
"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)
Em C G Bm
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 Em D
C Em Bm
C G Em D
C Em Bm
[Hook 2]
D Am
One says a word, one in turn interprets it
A D
But when unique things use generic means…is anything ever being said?
D Em
One says a word, one in turn interprets it
Am A D
But when unique things use generic means
[Hook 3]
C G Em G
"It's the gaps between the waves that make the tones we hear realizable.
C G Em
"It's the gaps between...
C G Em Am
"It's the gaps between the waves that make the tones we hear realizable.
C Em G Em F#m
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 B C"
C G D
"O N S"
C G D
"T R U"
C G D
"G T"
C G D
"R B 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 B 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 B 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