Verse
E G#m11
Orphans of the storm, watch them sail between the waves
E G#m11
Orphans of the storm, say a prayer and wish the rain away
F#m7 Am6
Mother's milk and angel hair, holy books and bones
E D E
The sirens on the shore calling them home
E G#m11
Breakfast on the lawn in the sweet September sway
E G#m11
Helpless and forlorn since the pills and powders passed their way
[Pre-Chorus]
F#m7 Am6
Lost themselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
E D E
While the needle and the thread stitches them whole
[Chorus]
C#m C
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
E Emaj7 C#
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
F#m7 Am6
No prescription for the pain only a sky of blue and grey
E D E
No one to save them, sailing their sinking ships up and away
[Instrumental with whistling]
E
G#m11
E
G#m11
[Pre-Chorus]
F#m7 Am6
We lost ourselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
E D E
While the needle and the thread stitches us whole again
[Chorus]
C#m C
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
E Emaj7 C#
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
F#m7 Am6
Raise your mast and fly away into a sky of blue and grey
E D E
No one to save us, sailing our sinking ships up and away
E D E
Sailing our sinking ships up and away
E D E
Sailing our sinking ships up and away