Verse
G D G C D
There are no chipped stones in your cemetery smile
G D G
Your mouth doesn't dare to shake the graves
C D
that bury it in military style
Am D G C
But I noticed there was more in there
Am D G C
in that mouth that held so much cold air
Am D G C D
words as forgotten as what wasn't meant for here
[Verse 2]
G D G
You must have learned how to talk
C D
from looking at the vases
G D
You know the ones with cracked Greek masks
G C D
Roman faces and heroes counting their graces
Am D G C
You know the kind with frozen lines
Am D G C
and edges as sharp as your sour whine
Am D G C D
I really mean your voice but that doesn't rhyme
[Bridge]
G D G C D D
G D G C D Am
Am D G C
What were you trying to say to me
Am D G C
Words as dead as the salt sea
Am D G C
Spoken from the nineteenth century
D
You say
G G D C
G D G C D D
G D G C D D
[Verse 3]
G D
It started off from the east
G C D
and worked its way into my ear
G D G
And everything that I understood
C D
I really didn't hear
Am D G C
Were the words spoken by a ghost
Am D G C
a fossilized Turkish tearoom host
Am D G C
or maybe someone from an Anatolian coast
D D
Maybe both
[Chorus]
G D G C D
Well you speak to me but it's in a dead language
G D G C D
Oh you speak to me but it's in a dead langauge
G D
And I speak back to you
G C D
but your ears seem to be dead too
G D G
I speak back to you but with your skin gone
C D
the words go right through
[Outro]
Am D G C
And now I'm starting to lose my voice
Am D G C
and my spirit's starting to hover
Am D G C
And you really don't have much of a choice
D G
but to change your cover or pull the covers over