Verse
D# Gm11
Orphans of the storm, watch them sail between the waves
D# Gm11
Orphans of the storm, say a prayer and wish the rain away
Fm7 G#m6
Mother's milk and angel hair, holy books and bones
D# C# D#
The sirens on the shore calling them home
D# Gm11
Breakfast on the lawn in the sweet September sway
D# Gm11
Helpless and forlorn since the pills and powders passed their way
[Pre-Chorus]
Fm7 G#m6
Lost themselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
D# C# D#
While the needle and the thread stitches them whole
[Chorus]
Cm Cb
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
D# D#maj7 C
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
Fm7 G#m6
No prescription for the pain only a sky of blue and grey
D# C# D#
No one to save them, sailing their sinking ships up and away
[Instrumental with whistling]
D#
Gm11
D#
Gm11
[Pre-Chorus]
Fm7 G#m6
We lost ourselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
D# C# D#
While the needle and the thread stitches us whole again
[Chorus]
Cm Cb
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
D# D#maj7 C
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
Fm7 G#m6
Raise your mast and fly away into a sky of blue and grey
D# C# D#
No one to save us, sailing our sinking ships up and away
D# C# D#
Sailing our sinking ships up and away
D# C# D#
Sailing our sinking ships up and away