Verse
F# A#m11
Orphans of the storm, watch them sail between the waves
F# A#m11
Orphans of the storm, say a prayer and wish the rain away
G#m7 Bm6
Mother's milk and angel hair, holy books and bones
F# E F#
The sirens on the shore calling them home
F# A#m11
Breakfast on the lawn in the sweet September sway
F# A#m11
Helpless and forlorn since the pills and powders passed their way
[Pre-Chorus]
G#m7 Bm6
Lost themselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
F# E F#
While the needle and the thread stitches them whole
[Chorus]
D#m D
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
F# F#maj7 D#
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
G#m7 Bm6
No prescription for the pain only a sky of blue and grey
F# E F#
No one to save them, sailing their sinking ships up and away
[Instrumental with whistling]
F#
A#m11
F#
A#m11
[Pre-Chorus]
G#m7 Bm6
We lost ourselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
F# E F#
While the needle and the thread stitches us whole again
[Chorus]
D#m D
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
F# F#maj7 D#
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
G#m7 Bm6
Raise your mast and fly away into a sky of blue and grey
F# E F#
No one to save us, sailing our sinking ships up and away
F# E F#
Sailing our sinking ships up and away
F# E F#
Sailing our sinking ships up and away