Verse
C# Fm11
Orphans of the storm, watch them sail between the waves
C# Fm11
Orphans of the storm, say a prayer and wish the rain away
D#m7 F#m6
Mother's milk and angel hair, holy books and bones
C# B C#
The sirens on the shore calling them home
C# Fm11
Breakfast on the lawn in the sweet September sway
C# Fm11
Helpless and forlorn since the pills and powders passed their way
[Pre-Chorus]
D#m7 F#m6
Lost themselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
C# B C#
While the needle and the thread stitches them whole
[Chorus]
A#m A
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
C# C#maj7 A#
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
D#m7 F#m6
No prescription for the pain only a sky of blue and grey
C# B C#
No one to save them, sailing their sinking ships up and away
[Instrumental with whistling]
C#
Fm11
C#
Fm11
[Pre-Chorus]
D#m7 F#m6
We lost ourselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
C# B C#
While the needle and the thread stitches us whole again
[Chorus]
A#m A
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
C# C#maj7 A#
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
D#m7 F#m6
Raise your mast and fly away into a sky of blue and grey
C# B C#
No one to save us, sailing our sinking ships up and away
C# B C#
Sailing our sinking ships up and away
C# B C#
Sailing our sinking ships up and away