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