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