Verse
C Em11
Orphans of the storm, watch them sail between the waves
C Em11
Orphans of the storm, say a prayer and wish the rain away
Dm7 Fm6
Mother's milk and angel hair, holy books and bones
C A# C
The sirens on the shore calling them home
C Em11
Breakfast on the lawn in the sweet September sway
C Em11
Helpless and forlorn since the pills and powders passed their way
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm7 Fm6
Lost themselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
C A# C
While the needle and the thread stitches them whole
[Chorus]
Am Ab
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
C Cmaj7 A
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
Dm7 Fm6
No prescription for the pain only a sky of blue and grey
C A# C
No one to save them, sailing their sinking ships up and away
[Instrumental with whistling]
C
Em11
C
Em11
[Pre-Chorus]
Dm7 Fm6
We lost ourselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
C A# C
While the needle and the thread stitches us whole again
[Chorus]
Am Ab
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
C Cmaj7 A
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
Dm7 Fm6
Raise your mast and fly away into a sky of blue and grey
C A# C
No one to save us, sailing our sinking ships up and away
C A# C
Sailing our sinking ships up and away
C A# C
Sailing our sinking ships up and away