Words from the records.

Sail along this
Lonely river
Until you find the shore
Then drown this
Lonely sailor
’Til he ain’t there no more

My heart is
Well rested
My limbs are broken in the bone
Won’t you come
Pick me up ’cause
I don’t want to
Break the night alone

Could you rid me of this
Lonely river
Break its heart against its shore
Drain dry this
Lonely river
Until it’s lonely no more

My heart is
Well rested
My limbs are broken in the bone
Won’t you come
Pick me up ’cause
I don’t want to
Break the night alone

Will you swim in this
Lonely river
Swim across the water so slow
Or walk atop this
Lonely river
Like you did long ago

My heart is
Well rested
My limbs are broken in the bone
Won’t you come
Pick me up ’cause
I don’t want to
Break the night alone

Mary takes your hand
And leads you through the streets
Through the markets outside
The cathedral
Therein your heart and hands go dry
Could you ever be my lonesome reply

Through a church’s open doors
You can hear your desires
Echoed by the strains of a choir
The ribbons in her clothes
You’ve wished to untie
Could you ever be my lonesome reply

You can hear her hum a tune
As through her eyes you can see
Leaves turning crimson on a nearby tree
Seasons rust
And love and life die
Could you ever be my lonesome reply

The last train leaves
At a quarter to nine
She says we best soon leave
Lest we soon lose our minds
Therein lies both a truth and a lie
Could you ever be my lonesome reply

Could you ever tell a beautiful lie
Stab a cripple man
In the thigh
Run a needle
Through a blind man’s eye
Could you ever be my lonesome reply
Could you ever be my lonesome reply
Could you ever be my lonesome reply

Lift your head and drop your golden hair
Your silence is now more than you can bear

Every time that you open up your eyes
Every time that you open up your eyes

Ooooo Emily, there’s no good way to say
Ooooo Emily, there’s no good way to say
Goodbye

Look up at the open-ended sky
Watch as the rain clouds open up to cry

Every time that they open up their eyes
Every time that they open up their eyes

Ooooo Emily, there’s no good way to say
Ooooo Emily, there’s no good way to say
Goodbye

Ooooo Emily, there’s no good way to say
Ooooo Emily, there’s no good way to say
Goodbye

Where we go when we’re lonely
Beyond where the west wind blows
Sometimes when alone
I sit upon a throne
Enchanted with a sense of suffering

But you hear the harp playing at my window
As the fingers of the air move across
Thread the words your eyes write
Through the needle of the night
Weave away while I sing to you

That I’m waiting for your love
I’ve been waiting for your love so long
I can’t remember when
I started

Let me sleep in your doorway
Let me change every bone that you don’t like
See what you can do
I won’t say I need you
But oh I need you

You’re a shadow that I dreamt I found
And I’m lost in the absence of your light
I’m lost upon the earth
I’m lost upon the night
Twenty summers burnt into my brow

I’m waiting for your love
I’ve been waiting for your love so long
I can’t remember when
I started

The northern sky is never ending
The firmament of heaven is well hid
You can look as long as you
Want or wish or choose
And it would all be so vain

So let us sing hallelujah
Let us watch the sky turn from grey to blue
I’m bending on my knees can you hear me begging please
Blow away this sense of suffering

I’m waiting for your love
I’ve been waiting for your love so long
I can’t remember when
I started

Seasons cede like a
Weary soldier who
Leaves his gun in the field

Leaves turn and
Fall so slowly
Cover me as if an ancient shield

Undress the colors of the year
Undress the colors of the year

Cool air wraps itself
So tightly
Around a murmur of a prayer

Fading heat and the
Pressing darkness
Catch the leaves in the air

Undress the colors of the year
Undress the colors of the year

Lord lay me
Upon a hillside
Let me spend my life in rest

Erase from me
All the bitter anger
Buried deep in my chest

Undress the colors of the year
Undress the colors of the year

Still tiger sighs
With the violets in your eyes
The sky will never fall
And the ground will never rise
There’s a stillness around you
Raging like a hurricane around you
Oh the chaos clamoring around me
Crashes against your heart in vain

Take the last train and never hear my voice
Inside your ears
Oh I need you now and I
Oh I need you now and I
Oh I need you now and I’ve
Never needed you more

Brown haired girl with
The silence about your eyes
Could you tell me all the stories
About the pain in your disguise
It’s just a mask that you wear
Maybe a passing thing you guess
Oh I want to feel the fate
Of you opening your gate

Take the last train and never hear my voice
Inside your ears
Oh I need you now and I
Oh I need you now and I
Oh I need you now and I’ve
Never needed you more

Take the last train and never hear my voice
Inside your ears
Oh I need you now and I
Oh I need you now and I
Oh I need you now and I’ve
Never needed you more

We walk among the fallen leaves
They crackle on the ground
Like an echo of the summer
In them I hear again your melancholy voice
I can taste ashes in your breath

A love that felt like a dream
Weaved its way into my sleep
Made a garment of my slumber
How much I wish your heat had
Never grown cold
How much I wish it still was the summer

Open up the vault of your sweet heart
Open up the jaws of your sweet hand
As lily white darkness whispers so low

I remember you well
Like the leaves that all fell
Every time that I would see you
Trees hold out bare hands like
I hold out my heart
We’re swaying in the breeze of the summer

Open up the vault of your sweet heart
Open up the jaws of your sweet hand
As lily white darkness whispers so low

Let me kiss your lips
Let me touch your hand
Let me feel you near me
I wish that you could hear this song in the wind
Swaying in the breeze of the summer

Open up the vault of your sweet heart
Open up the jaws of your sweet hand
As lily white darkness whispers so low
I don’t know how to let you go

Arise, arise, arise, arise
And taste
The sweetness of
The morning

Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes, your eyes
Can’t
Veil the sorrow
In your mind

Leave your burdens
In the darkness
And curse
The twilight no more

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
I wonder if
I’ll make it to
The morning

At night, at night
The stars
All tremble
Like the wind

Leave your burdens
In the darkness
And curse
The twilight no more

Am I? Am I? Am I? Am I?
So sad
Why am I
So sad?

Arise, arise, arise, arise
And taste
The sweetness of
The morning

I went for a walk in the dark
In a moment a lifetime hit like a spark
From the observatory we whisper to the stars
On wings of truth we vault over bars

In an instant the world
Reveals itself to you
Through the dissonant hours
A startling calm cuts through
Scratched into concrete memory
A bridge to and through eternity

Theoretical three dimensional lines
Hamilton, I just kid, the invisible binds
The more you learn the less you know
Cross a midnight bridge it goes to show

In an instant the world
Reveals itself to you
Through the dissonant hours
A startling calm cuts through
Scratched into concrete memory
A bridge to and through eternity

The quaternions rotate like moons around flashing eyes
The four-dimensional tricks God plays
Buried by lies
Had a dream I ascended into the clouds
Woke up covered and clothed in cumulus clouds

In an instant the world
Reveals itself to you
Through the dissonant hours
A startling calm cuts through
A world parallel invisible too
Broom bridge scratch a fever dream revert
Into concrete memory
A bridge to and through eternity

Bend the bough
And break the sky
Hear the Jew’s harp’s distant cry
Echo as the street lights glow
Beneath the sky

Shadows obscure all sense of shape
Annie will you mend this
Desolate ache
Forgive me like the night
Forgives the dawn

Walk on water now
Walk on fire
Crumble in the heat now
Stumble in desire
I’m but a ghost when
I am here with you

She said to cradle the night with an open palm
Is to let your rage
Now fade to calm
Stick with me until
The sun sets now

And though I’d draw the blood
Of a well worn king
I’d rather stay next to her and sing
A song that leads you to dance
At my front door

Walk on water now
Walk on fire
Crumble in the heat now
Stumble in desire
I’m but a ghost when
I am here with you

Will the meek inherit or sink
Like a stone
Will I still sense sorrow when I’m alone
Stick with me until the sun sets now

White wedded words flow upon your shore
The river runs slow and Babylon’s whore
Is singing in a tongue
That I can’t hear

Walk on water now
Walk on fire
Crumble in the heat now
Stumble in desire
I’m but a ghost when
I am here with you

Will you rest in my arms
When my eyes are bound by dark
Does my conscious rise in vain
Like a muted meadow lark

Come on will you try
Come on will you try
Come on will you try
And find the dawn

The language of your heart
Is a haunting revelry
I wish to hear its sound
Wake inside of me

Come on will you try
Come on will you try
Come on will you try
And find the dawn

Will you take my withered hand
When my age has grown wild
Take my arm and take me to
The windows covered in frost
And when sadness grows across my brow
Like vines in a cold stone wall
Will you break a crack in the grains
And let the light come through

Come on will you try
Come on will you try
Come on will you try
And find the dawn

All the fireflies in the night
Burn so slow burn so bright
In the day they're only insects though
And love remains but its not like it used to be
Anymore

So slide down the chute of your memory
Rock upon the west wind's knee
And when your lungs are cracked and dry
Look up to the red and burning sky
To fall down on you
It might rain

All along a crooked road we hear the thoughtless honey bees
Sing songs we used to know but abandoned in debris

Street lights all curl like a scorpion's tail
We hear them hiss when the night winds wail
Water's falling down from the moon
Silver streams we know will crash on us soon
We best head inside

I saw you in a dimly lit place
You dropped from your hands a golden vase
It shattered on the dust covered floor
The pieces all turned into countless spiders
And ran out the door
And I jumped on my chair

All along a crooked road we hear the thoughtless honey bees
Singing songs we used to know but abandoned in debris

Driving alone at four in the morning
Through the darkened streets of new year's eve
The wind blows the snow ghostly over the frozen street
The stars are hid in heaven's sleeve

There's a last trace
Of the last snow of the year
And though you may be at my side
It feels like you're not here

And this year you'll try and
Be a better person, I nod as though I'll do the same
Oh how much I wish that you were still a stranger
You'd wave goodbye I'd ask for your name

There's a last trace
Of the last snow of the year
And though you may be at my side
It feels like you're not here

Driving alone at four in the morning
Through the darkened streets of new year's eve

There's a last trace
Of the last snow of the year
And though you may be at my side
It feels like you're not here

You put forth your tongue into the night sky
To catch a snowflake that you thought would fall
And die
Oooooo the wind is a hapless sigh
Oooooo I love you but I don't know why

Lift your voice up to the angels in the night sky
Watch the caravan of phantoms float on by
Oooo as if in a lullaby
Ooooo I love you but I don't know why

Light in august plays upon the hair that veils your eyes
The north wind tells a lie
Ooooo we hear it passing by
Oooooo I love you but I don't know why

Stranded on a city sidewalk
No one in front of me and no one left behind
The clouds are starting to unwind

We've welded shut the gates of hell they've
Chopped the vines we'd climb up to the sky
So here we live and here we die

Falling stars they flicker in your eyes

Pirouette for a passing stranger
A crimson rose clenched between your glistening teeth
And on your head an advent wreath

There's a blind man begging in the gutter
Spare an eye what need you now of two
For a luckless wandering Jew

Falling stars they flicker in your eyes
I see them all the time

Awake from drifting sleep
And shake the ashes from your sleeves
These city lights obscure
The trail to the golden fleece

Life is a joyful strain
Can you hear it resound

Your heart's a wooden clock
You hung on a loosened nail
We watch the hours fall
And wait for time to fail

Life is a joyful strain
Can you hear it resound

Let us live and let us love
As we were made to do
Search through a palace of mirrors
For something we can look through

Life is a joyful strain
Can you hear it resound

Fumbling for your wedding ring
Eyes that bless but don't confess
And veil your silent sweet regress

Annie with your green eyes now turned down
Wearing the night like a wedding gown
Black ravens circling around you now
Round your bed and around your brow

Are you in a compromise
Looking into the devil's eyes you say you see
Three shadows swinging from a tree
Is this how you want to live your life
Alone

Annie with your green eyes darkening
A sorrowful beauty like a homeless king
The waters of time rush over and through
And dull the sweetness once in you

Are you in a compromise
Looking into the devil's eyes you say you see
Three shadows swinging from a tree
Is this how you want to live your life
Alone

Let me sink beneath your smile
With your eyes undressed
The holy ghost is at your side
But you don't feel you've been blessed
Of the few within my reach
You're the one I've loved the best

Kneel upon these ancient stairs
The lonely in our prayers
Your wooden rosary falls out from
The convergence of your palms
Jesus wept and Pilate washed
And the silent rainstorm calms

Is there anybody left that you still can call a friend
I'll be leaning on a lamppost babe, waiting for your will to bend

Salvation in a sudden swoon
When you brush your sun-dyed hair
Life it wears a joker's mask
Waltzing at the country fair
We can hear the funeral horn
Over life's cacophonous blare

Wandering through this garden of
Long forgotten souls
Read the words on these gray stones
Hear the echoed whispered groans
Sticks and stones and broken bones
Empty interregnum thrones

Is there anybody left that you still can call a friend
I'll be leaning on a lamppost babe waiting for your will to bend

Beneath a pomegranate tree, lay me in my endless sleep
Are saints and angels now to us
Like a shepherd to his sheep
Is this now the time that we
Can lift up our rags and weep

Is there anybody left that you still can call a friend
I'll be leaning on a lamppost babe waiting for your will to bend

Christmas lights are strung up over our heads
Throwing down a pallid yellow light on your long black hair
And strangers dancing around us
Our friends blending in with the crowd
What was your name again, this music's so loud

Edinburgh we're riding in a ferris wheel
I'll tell you my middle name if your kiss I can steal
You've got a stare that cuffs my wrists behind my back
And escorts me to police cars waiting in a pack

She came into my room and lay on my bed
I can't recall a single thing she said
And a pillow opened its jaws and swallowed her hair
It just gets better from there

We best head inside these mosquitoes bite
They'll leave us alone you say if only we darken the light
Oh come on babe throw a line don't watch me drown
I see seven windmills turning round your Arabian eyes

She came into my room and lay on my bed
I can't recall a single thing she said
And a pillow opened its jaws and swallowed her hair
It just gets better from there

You've got a stare that turns my bones into dust
Go on your way now I know you must do as you must

So put your finger to the lips of your ghost's desire
Throw a blanket on the flames of eternal fire
And the dust from which you came and your numbered hair
It won't get better from there

I clapped my hands to catch the breath of the night
I worked the captured wind til' morning light
And rolled a serpent so violently
Oh how quickly the dragonflies flee

Waves of darkened rain clouds gathered as we kissed
Your patron saint is standing in my midst
She says that you, you might love me
Oh how quickly the dragonflies flee

Cyrus led the Persian men to Babylon
The battle raged until the break of dawn
The city walls were crumbling
Oh how quickly the dragonflies flee

All the Spanish Steps lead to the ghost of Abraham
Skeletons and ash all invisible surround us
Oh but what a cost that you pay for everything you love
Silently your mystery is still haunting me

All the streets of Rome are filled with footprints left in the sand
The armies once fought upon the place where you now stand
Oh but what a cost that you pay for everything you love
Silently your mystery is still haunting me

Last night I dreamed two ambulances did collide
The crowd then loot the treasure scattered on the roadside
Oh but what a loss I can sense that you are growing numb
Suddenly your ghost doesn't even recognize me

We don't suffer anymore like we did once before
I ask you what you're doing
Open up your old front door
Like you did once before, I just want some of your time

I love you but I want your sister mary
She's so fine, I just think about her all the time

All the crickets of july have gone and passed us by
Come along pretty babe

I love you but I want your sister Mary
She's so fine, I just think about her all the time

Apollo is laughing and daphne lie still
The midnight train is breaking my will
And it’s been hours since you have gone to sleep

I should head to bed but I don't feel tired
My mind is long numb but my bones are all wired
Time just stops and starts like a city parade

There's an old iron cross
That hangs from your neck
And a rootless tree that grows in the grass
Ah where can I find you tonight

Sometimes I'm buried deep neath my memory
I think I hear voices but it’s just me
The night is laced with ghosts your face is laced with time

There's an old iron cross
That hangs from your neck
And a rootless tree that grows in the grass
Ah where can I find you tonight

There's an old iron cross
That hangs from your neck
And a rootless tree that grows in the grass
Ah where can I find you tonight

My frightened heart shatters windows with its fists
And struggling in handcuffs it cuts its wrists
It begs for blood and begs for flames
You're beautiful but I'm sorry I've forgotten your name

It's so sweet the way that I misguidedly
Love you, I love you so misguidedly

The record is spinning endlessly, don't flip it babe
Just play that side again
I already long for your kiss
Though I still feel the last one upon my lips

It's so sweet the way that I misguidedly
Love you, I love you so misguidedly

Beside you my blood starts to glow
It's like I'm standing barefoot in the snow
I lose my sense of time and space
When you strike your kiss like a match across my face

You were born in a serpent's mouth
A tornado blowing across the middle of your eyes
Why can't you just smile again
You used to smile even in your sleep

It's so sweet the way that I misguidedly
Love you, I love you so misguidedly

When you were young you kissed the sun
Open-mouthed at noon
And now you only show yourself to the moon

I hear the windows rattle
As you shut the apartment door
And ask me why I'm lying on the floor

The clouds gather round, I feel alone
The clouds blow away, I feel alone
It's nothing to do with you

You say you're so frustrated,
You'll never understand why
I can't just be happy by your side

Your heart is like a rioter
It throws Molotov cocktails,
Over barricades and into my eyes

The clouds gather round, I feel alone
The clouds blow away, I feel alone
It's nothing to do with you

Last night I swear I saw you
Wandering through my backyard
You buried your clothes and threw a gun in the trees

And today you say our kisses
Are like two-dollar bills
A novelty that's hardly worth a thing

I love you more than I think I'll ever know
You with a gaze that makes me second guess my dreams
You with a voice that rattles like cubes of ice
Against the sides of a glass inside my mind

Every hour feels like ten
Every hour feels like ten

I'm listening to the same song all night long
Thumbing through books with a muted TV on
Dead leaves scratch their fingernails across the way
The west wind sings things that I could never say

Every hour feels like ten
Every hour feels like ten

Something that you said still rings in my ear
I wish that I could cut my shadow from my heel
Am I alone or have I lost my mind?

Oh I'm ringing like a silver can
Shot by a BB gun
If I could do it all again
I'm not sure I would

Oh I'm reading too much Hemingway
Nursing my fantasies of dying
In a ring in Spain
My blood would mix with sand and rain

It seems so long ago now
We'd somersault through our dreams
It seems so long ago
Now we dance in our memories

Oh the rosary you gave to me
Is something I will always keep
I wrap it round my wrist at night
I fumble with it when I can't sleep

I hope you're doing well
Up there in Montreal
I know there's nothing I
Nothing I can do for you now

It seems so long ago now
We'd somersault through our dreams
It seems so long ago
Now we dance in our memories

You hold a wreath over my head
Whisper in my ear
Remember who you are
And always keep me near

It seems so long ago now
We'd somersault through our dreams
It seems so long ago
Now we dance in our memories

I cast my eyes like fishing beams
Into the sea of waking dreams
My heart drowns in my blood
We were living well before the flood

My heart swings on phantom strings
Suspended from my memories

Winter round here turns your limbs to dust
You'll count all your bones and watch your fingers rust
My heart drowns in my blood
I drove an angel from my door

My heart swings on phantom strings
Suspended from my memories

Brown eyes, I want you now brown eyes
’Neath your laugh and over the gypsy moon
Your lips like prison guards and your tongue like a tomb
With a shadow across your waist and a crack on your brow

There you stand in my doorway
So deep in all my memories
There must be a crack somewhere in my veins
This wine doesn't work the way it should

Taking your own life
Taking your own life
My heart is trembling the stars are still
You have a stare that breaks my will in two

Come on, what else do you have to do on a Sunday morning?
Oh I know that I'm not wrong I know

She's a frog with frozen eyes
Teeth in the shade of a beach umbrella
Twelve archers line her apartment balcony
She tells them not to fire their arrows at me

Taking your own life
Taking your own life
My heart is trembling the stars are still
You have a stare that breaks my will in two

Come on, what else do you have to do on a Sunday morning?
Oh I know that I'm not wrong I know

As I continue on in my age
And my hair falls on the floor
I wonder will my mirror capitulate
Walk out the door screaming I can't take no more

My voice cracks as I make my appeal
Don't let me look as desperate as I feel

By yesterday's excess still oppressed,
The body suffers not the mind to rest
The clouds look all splattered on heaven's floor
Like tobacco chewed and spit out by God

My voice cracks as I make my appeal
Don't let me look as desperate as I feel

My voice cracks as I make my appeal
Don't let me look as desperate as I feel

Caroline, all through the summer
I learned to trace the shape of your body
Now I feel paralyzed

Caroline, last night I said too much when I
Said your eyes are the Christmas star
And I am a wandering king

It's so easy to stare at the ceiling fan all day
It's so easy to stare at the ceiling fan all day

I'm not ready
I'm not ready to go home
’Cause I feel so betrayed by you
I feel so betrayed by you
So betrayed by you

We chased our youth through Italian churches
And prayed upon the graves of the martyrs while you
Slow danced with a ghost

It's so easy to stare at the ceiling fan all day
It's so easy to stare at the ceiling fan all day

I'm not ready
I'm not ready to go home
’Cause I feel so betrayed by you
I feel so betrayed by you
So betrayed by you

Son, you remind me, if I may be so bold
Of Cagney in one of his lesser roles
Stop by and see me some time
I know we've got a place for you

I surrender, I'm outmanned
Mosquito sucking blood from out of my hand
You know I can't make the sunrise
I can't stand when it does

You never grew up
The world grew up around you
And buried you neath' the rocks and sand
What do you want, what do you want from me?

Life will siphon the blood out from your heart
And love will tear your heart apart
And leave your shadow paralyzed

Smell the blood in the wind
Summer's ending and my soul is thin
Why don't you just throw your hands up
Drop your guns and fall to the floor

I'm trembling and asking
You why you're filling a sock
With dimes and nickels and pennies
You could stand to be more subtle

You never grew up
The world grew up around you
And buried you neath' the rocks and sand
What do you want, what do you want from me?

Life will siphon the blood out from your heart
And love will tear your heart apart
And leave your shadow paralyzed

We walk the streets of Rome
Past the ancient Colosseum
On a night that has made a ghost of me

Corinthian columns seem to make obscene gestures
At the moon
Now I know we're leaving too soon

I know that I can't spend my life
Counting stars that burned out many centuries ago
Don't be long, when you're leaving Italy
Don't be long, when you're leaving me

At home I live my life like an actor reading lines
That he wrote many years ago
The truth comes in shapes that are sometimes hard to take
That don't fit into the life you make

I know that I can't spend my life
Counting stars that burned out many centuries ago
Don't be long, when you're leaving Italy
Don't be long, when you're leaving me

I don’t know which way you expect me to go
Alone every night oh by now you know

And you can’t help it now you’ve got nothing to lose
You can’t help it you’ve got nothing to lose

I wait for you all of my life

And you can’t help it now you’ve got nothing to lose
You can’t help it you’ve got nothing to lose

Waiting for a change to come
Waiting for a change
I hope it comes soon I don’t know how much of this
I can take from you

Days go by so slowly

You can’t help it now you’ve got nothing to lose

I watch your eyes fade from blistering bursts
To exponential decay
I try to find my way to your kiss but you’re standing in my way

Oh you know you can break my heart with your sigh
I couldn’t break your heart—Lord knows I’ve tried

Louise bring me my guitar strap bells to the soles of your shoes
So I can hear it when you walk away and you can hear me sing my blues

There’s a white flag in my guts
Waving in the wind of your breath
You wrap your smile around my will
’Til I swear I got nothing left

The night comes on shining
In the moon’s teeth
I’ve waited so long
The waiting starts to feel like relief

Louise bring me my guitar strap bells to the soles of your shoes
So I can hear it when you walk away and you can hear me sing my blues

Newspapers piled at the foot of your bed
I’m hanging on to the shadow
Of a ghost of a trace of a thread

Louise bring me my guitar strap bells to the soles of your shoes
So I can hear it when you walk away and you can hear me sing my blues

My heart is knocking on the doorway of your cheek
Your eyes once tight shut now are starting to leak
Pull me out of the dark where I’ve been a helpless deportee
Bind my infinite dreams with your reality

Roll with the rain rest with the dust
Close your eyes you start to rust
Wounded and wandering a desolate highway
I hear your name the stars fall into array

The world ends abruptly when you rest your hand on my arm
Time will destroy your will but time can’t touch your charm
The stars corrode the sky but I can still trace in your veins
A road that leads to the promise of a dream or at least
What remains

Roll with the rain rest with the dust
Close your eyes you start to rust
Wounded and wandering a desolate highway
I hear your name the stars fall into array

Her eyes
Her eyes
Her eyes so far away
Her eyes
Her eyes
There’s nothing now I can say

Don’t want to wake up
Don’t want to wake up alone
Don’t want to wake up
Don’t want to wake up alone
Hands, strangers to my heart

Her voice
Her voice
Her voice I don’t recognize
Her voice
Her voice
And I can’t feign surprise

Don’t want to wake up
Don’t want to wake up alone
Don’t want to wake up
Don’t want to wake up alone
Hands, strangers to my heart

In a room almost dark
Under her breath she destroys you
Half-sunken eyes put holes in your parachute

Blood rises with the mercury
There’s a ghost in the hallway
Dragging her chain and looking at me

Break me to the sound of your radio
I was a searcher now the world
Is full of things I wish I didn’t know

The moon barely hides the things that you’re
Waiting to see
So you work yourself up into a
Comatose reverie

Blood rises with the mercury
There’s a ghost in the hallway
Dragging her chain and looking at me

Break me to the sound of your radio
I was a searcher now the world
Is full of things I wish I didn’t know

Yeah you’re gonna make it up as you
Go along now baby
You know it’s gonna be OK
You know it’s gonna be OK

My shadow falls on the track
You know I can’t look back now
You know I wait forever though
You know I’ll wait forever for you

I wait, just wait and wait

I’m so lost and lonely
I’m so lost and lonely
I’m so lost and lonely
You know it’s gonna be OK
Know it’s gonna be OK

Yeah the sun is shining
But the dark never goes away
You know it never goes away you know
It’s here now to stay
I wait

I see the sky is closing in
The canopy is breathless
You know it’s gonna be OK
Know it’s gonna be OK
For now
OK for now

I’m so lost and lonely
I’m so lost and lonely
I’m so lost and lonely
You know it’s gonna be OK
Know it’s gonna be OK

Oh to be the mindless hummingbird
Sucking syrup from a plastic tower
With wings all blurry in the wind
No awareness of the spinning world or the hour

Here we go walking these haunted streets

Puritan footprints trip our every step

Smothered by the slogans writ across our memories

And we forget the songs of the honeybees

You are not to blame oh this life is insane

I’ve been dreaming of a hummingbird

Hovering by your bedroom window

Salvation comes in rapid bursts

Salvation comes as a top phantom

Driving a funeral hearse

You are not to blame oh this life is insane

It might all be the same but you are not to blame

You are not to blame

You are not to blame

E - A (X4)

E			B		F#
Oh to be the mindless hummingbird
F#m		G#7 		C#m
Sucking syrup from a plastic tower
A						E
With wings all blurry in the wind
	C				B7				C#m
No awareness of the spinning world or the hour

Here we go walking these haunted streets

Puritan footprints trip our every step

Smothered by the slogans writ across our memories

And we forget the songs of the honeybees

You are not to blame oh this life is insane

I’ve been dreaming of a hummingbird

Hovering by your bedroom window

Salvation comes in rapid bursts

Salvation comes as a top phantom

Driving a funeral hearse

You are not to blame oh this life is insane

It might all be the same but you are not to blame

You are not to blame

You are not to blame

Give me all your love I’ll take it without rest
Leave no doubt who you love the best
Take your baseball bat to the headlights in my eyes
Scratch your name with a blade on my arm
Smash my dreams and pull the alarm
I’m a helpless pale ghost when I feel your breath

I shudder when I think of all the things that I would do
Just to feel close to you
I shudder when I think of all the crimes I’m up to do
Just to feel close to you

Waves crash on your far away shore
Devils scratch at your bedroom door
I imitate every cliche for a shot at your laugh

I wanna live in the corner of your smile
Walk the shore for a seashell mile
Let your tide rip through the sandcastles in my heart

I shudder when I think of all the things that I would do
Just to feel close to you
I shudder when I think of all the crimes I’m up to do
Just to feel close to you

I shudder when you’re near
I shudder when you’re not here
Every door feels closed
It’s a no to every question posed

I’m haunted by memories
Of things that never happened to me
Perhaps a premonition or inherited pain

I shudder when I think of all the things that I would do
Just to feel close to you
I shudder when I think of all the crimes I’m up to do
Just to feel close to you

F					    Dm			Bb
Give me all your love I’ll take it without rest
F						Dm		Bb
Leave no doubt who you love the best
F					Dm				Bb
Take your baseball bat to the headlights in my eyes
F-Dm-Bb
F						Dm			Bb
Scratch your name with a blade on my arm
F					Dm			Bb
Smash my dreams and pull the alarm
F				Dm				Bb
I’m a helpless pale ghost when I feel your breath

CHORUS
C									Dm
I shudder when I think of all the things that I would do
Bb			F
Just to feel close to you
C									Dm
I shudder when I think of all the crimes I’m up to do
Bb			F
Just to feel close to you

F					Dm		Bb
Waves crash on your far away shore
F					Dm		Bb
Devils scratch at your bedroom door
F			Dm		Bb	F			Dm		Bb
I imitate every cliche for a shot at your laugh

F					Dm			Bb
I wanna live in the corner of your smile
F					Dm		Bb
Walk the shore for a seashell mile
F			Dm		Bb	F			Dm		Bb
Let your tide rip through the sandcastles in my heart

CHORUS
C									Dm
I shudder when I think of all the things that I would do
Bb			F
Just to feel close to you
C									Dm
I shudder when I think of all the crimes I’m up to do
Bb			F
Just to feel close to you

BRIDGE
C
I shudder when you’re near
Bb					F
I shudder when you’re not here
C
Every door feels closed
Bb						F
It’s a no to every question posed

F			Dm		Bb
I’m haunted by memories
F					Dm		Bb
Of things that never happened to me
F		Dm			Bb		F		Dm		Bb
Perhaps a premonition or inherited pain

CHORUS
C									Dm
I shudder when I think of all the things that I would do
Bb			F
Just to feel close to you
C									Dm
I shudder when I think of all the crimes I’m up to do
Bb			F
Just to feel close to you

Sweating for applause
From the crows around your eyes
Statler and Waldorf in the balcony surprise

Oh the limitless all-engulfing absolute insanity
The shadow around your smile
Is the only place where I can find clarity

Won’t you let me see the places only your shadow goes
Won’t you let me see the faces only your shadow knows

Don’t count the lies that I whisper to no one in the dark
Mind-forged ghosts embossed in a nebulous spark
The sun is rising let’s rejoice
Celebrate the banishment of illusion of our choice

Won’t you let me see the places only your shadow goes
Won’t you let me see the faces only your shadow knows

Let’s drink wine in the shade all day
Shake the feeling we’re lost and in the way

Won’t you let me see the places only your shadow goes
Won’t you let me see the faces only your shadow knows

INTRO G/G/G/G/D X4
G
Sweating for applause
			D
From the crows around your eyes
C								G
Statler and Waldorf in the balcony surprise

G								D
Oh the limitless all-engulfing absolute insanity
C
The shadow around your smile
G
Is the only place where I can find clarity

CHORUS
D				C							Em
Won’t you let me see the places only your shadow goes
D				C							Em-    D/F#  C
Won’t you let me see the faces only your shadow knows

Don’t count the lies that I whisper to no one in the dark
Mind-forged ghosts embossed in a nebulous spark
The sun is rising let’s rejoice
Celebrate the banishment of illusion of our choice

CHORUS
D				C							Em
Won’t you let me see the places only your shadow goes
D				C							Em-    D/F#  C
Won’t you let me see the faces only your shadow knows

BRIDGE
B7					Em
Let’s drink wine in the shade all day
A7					Cm
Shake the feeling we’re lost and in the way

CHORUS
D				C							Em
Won’t you let me see the places only your shadow goes
D				C							Em-    D/F#  C
Won’t you let me see the faces only your shadow knows

OUTRO
G/G/G/G/D

Every day you carve the clay
From my heart’s stone
The statue in me which I can’t
Make out on my own
My muffled heart beats muted
I don’t know where to dig
You fire up the engine in
Your drilling rig
I’ll immortalize my vows
Tattoo them across my face
If you need me
You know any time any place

I’m onto you
And the things that you do
I’m onto you
And the life you blaze through
You’re whistling as you stroll by a dragon’s lair
As you rule your kingdom from your red velvet chair

Smoke is rising from her fiery leaves
Gives away where she lives
Hiding in the trees
Scavenge on my hands and knees
Through the valleys of her being
Suddenly stumble on
The shadow of her fleeing

I’m onto you
And the things that you do
I’m onto you
And the life you blaze through
You’re whistling as you stroll by a dragon’s lair
As you rule your kingdom from your red velvet chair

Her glaciers creep and cut their way
Through the landscape of my heart
Eroded paths in my insides I
Don’t know where to start
I gave the keys I gave the wheel
If I had a kingdom I’d give it to you
I’d give my ears my hands my feet
If you said you needed more than two
I know I’m a fool I know
I have too much skin in this game
I love you and hate you both cause
You’re a wild creature no one will tame
One day maybe I’ll break through and
Feel something like your moon
Until that day I’ll take what you’re giving
And cry and sigh and swoon

Intro riff X1

Bb-F-Dm-C X2

Bb				F
Every day you carve the clay
Dm				C
From my heart’s stone
Bb				F
The statue in me which I can’t
Dm				C
Make out on my own
	Bb				F
My muffled heart beats muted
	Dm				C
I don’t know where to dig
	Bb			F
You fire up the engine in
Dm		C
Your drilling rig
Bb		F
I’ll immortalize my vows
Dm					C
Tattoo them across my face
Bb		F
If you need me
		Dm			C
You know any time any place

CHORUS
Bb		F
I’m onto you
Dm					C
And the things that you do
Bb		F
I’m onto you
Dm					C
And the life you blaze through
Bb					F				C
You’re whistling as you stroll by a dragon’s lair
Bb					F					C
As you rule your kingdom from your red velvet chair

Riff X 2

VERSE 2
Bb				F
Smoke is rising from her fiery leaves
Dm
Gives away where she lives
C
Hiding in the trees
Bb				F
Scavenge on my hands and knees
			Dm			C
Through the valleys of her being
Bb			F
Suddenly stumble on
	Dm			C
The shadow of her fleeing

CHORUS
Bb		F
I’m onto you
Dm					C
And the things that you do
Bb		F
I’m onto you
Dm					C
And the life you blaze through
Bb					F				C
You’re whistling as you stroll by a dragon’s lair
Bb					F					C
As you rule your kingdom from your red velvet chair

Riff X1

VERSE 3 (Bb-F-Dm-C 8 times)
Bb					F
Her glaciers creep and cut their way
			Dm				C
Through the landscape of my heart
Bb					F
Eroded paths in my insides I
Db				C
Don’t know where to start
Bb					F
I gave the keys I gave the wheel
	Dm				C
If I had a kingdom I’d give it to you
	Bb					F
I’d give my ears my hands my feet
		Dm					C
If you said you needed more than two
Bb			F
I know I’m a fool I know
Dm						C
I have too much skin in this game
Bb					F
I love you and hate you both cause
		Dm					C (stop)
You’re a wild creature no one will tame
Bb						F
One day maybe I’ll break through and
Dm						C
Feel something like your moon
Bb				F
Until that day I’ll take what you’re giving
	Dm				C
And cry and sigh and swoon

The smell of rags and cabbage down the halls
Posters of a half bald mustache on the walls
Black boots stomp your shape in the April air
The world smells cold and all the dusty shelves in heaven are now bare

Ignorance is strength and
I’m suffering to cling to any sense of hope
When war is peace and slavery is freedom
I’ll still strain to sing

Are you one of us?

Contradictions wrapped like vines around your brain
Belief in the paradox will only keep you sane
The goal and object of hate is hate
Bury your clothes forget your secrets now before it’s too late

Ignorance is strength and
I’m suffering to cling to any sense of hope
When war is peace and slavery is freedom
I’ll still strain to sing

REPEAT:
Are you one of us?

Ab7 -  Ebm7    - Bbm7   -Ab

VERSE 1
Ab7 -  				Ebm7    -
The smell of rags and cabbage  down the halls
 Bbm7  				 -Ab
Posters of a half bald mustache on the walls
Ab7 -  							Ebm7    -
Black boots stomp your shape in the April air
 Bbm7  				 			-Ab
The world smells cold and all the dusty shelves in heaven are now bare

CHORUS
Gb			Ab
Ignorance is strength and
				Bbm 			Db
I’m suffering to cling to any sense of hope
Gb								Ab
When war is peace and slavery is freedom
	Bbm	   		Db
I’ll still strain to sing

INTERLUDE
Gb-Ebm7 - Bbm7/13 - Db
Are you one of us?

VERSE 2
Ab7 -  				Ebm7    -
Contradictions wrapped like vines around your brain
 Bbm7  				 -Ab
Belief in the paradox will only keep you sane
Ab7 -  				Ebm7    -
The goal and object of hate is hate
 Bbm7  				 -Ab
Bury your clothes forget your secrets now before it’s too late

CHORUS
Gb			Ab
Ignorance is strength and
				Bbm 			Db
I’m suffering to cling to any sense of hope
Gb								Ab
When war is peace and slavery is freedom
	Bbm	   		Db
I’ll still strain to sing

INTERLUDE 2
REPEAT:
Gb-Ebm7 - Bbm7/13 - Db
Are you one of us?

OUTRO
Ab7 -  Ebm7    - Bbm7   -Ab

Why is it so hard to make friends now
Can’t suspend disbelief behind a wrinkled brow
My loneliness is tolerable
If only it were operable
It’s true
Romantic love has got me through but
Now I’m older my heart colder
I need you

We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
Let’s feel it tomorrow
For tomorrow let’s just drive around this town
With Petty on the radio

Does nature ask to drudgery resign?
Stop seeing the dreams in the day
And a part of you is blind
The stuff of college dorms I know
Drunk words exchanged underneath a cheap print of Van Gogh
And yes I have no reason to hold back
Let my heart crack let me crank
Paint it black

We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
Let’s feel it tomorrow
For tomorrow let’s just drive around this town
With Petty on the radio

I forgot how much you need a friend
As the years go so fast and then the days
Have no end
Always singing it’s so hard to find
A friend

We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
Let’s feel it tomorrow
We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
Let’s feel it tomorrow
For tomorrow let’s just drive around this town
With Petty on the radio

I said all right all right yea yea yea yea

INTRO
E-A X2

E						A
Why is it so hard to make friends now
G#m 						C#7
Can’t suspend disbelief behind a wrinkled brow
F#m
My loneliness is tolerable
			Am
If only it were operable
	E
It’s true
	E7
Romantic love has got me through but
A
Now I’m older my heart colder
D
I need you

CHORUS
C#m     E7	A
We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
C#m    E7	A
Let’s feel it tomorrow
F#7									Am
For tomorrow let’s just drive around this town
				E
With Petty on the radio

E-A (X2)

VERSE 2
  E				A
Does nature ask to drudgery resign?
G#m
Stop seeing the dreams in the day
C#7
And a part of you is blind
F#m
The stuff of college dorms I know
			Am								E
Drunk words exchanged underneath a cheap print of Van Gogh
E7
And yes I have no reason to hold back
		A
Let my heart crack let me crank
		D
Paint it black

CHORUS
C#m     E7	A
We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
C#m    E7	A
Let’s feel it tomorrow
F#7									Am
For tomorrow let’s just drive around this town
				E
With Petty on the radio

BRIDGE
C#m  D				A		E
I forgot how much you need a friend
C#m			 D				A
As the years go so fast and then the days
		E
Have no end
		C#m             D		A
Always singing it’s so hard to find
	E
A friend

CHORUS
C#m     E7	A
We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
C#m    E7	A
Let’s feel it tomorrow
C#m     E7	A
We’ll feel it tomorrow in our bones
C#m    E7	A
Let’s feel it tomorrow
F#7									Am
For tomorrow let’s just drive around this town
				E
With Petty on the radio

REPEAT OUTRO:
	E					A
I said all right all right yea yea yea yea

So much for all the lessons right
Our parents sang to us at night
Tucked us into foggy beds and said
What dreams may fill your head

Now we struggle to make peace
With the future put on lease
The hypocrisy obfuscates
My sense of morality

Footprints poster on the wall
My mom’s on a phone call
1993 I hear her say
The devil’s on his way

I think we know where it goes from here
The best intentions can be smothered hard by fear

If I cling to honesty
Will the cycle break with me?
I wish I could fly away
For now I’ll get through the day

You’re resilient that’s your curse
The singing style all bright and terse
For the glow around the stairs
Leading to forgotten cares

Your ancestors hiss
In your ear and then you kiss
The fog round your baby’s eyes
A tunnel out of lies

Morning mist falling on the screen of your phone
See a panther in your ring alarm when you’re alone

If I cling to honesty
Will the cycle break with me?
I wish I could fly away
For now I’ll get through the day

We stare down the future now
Our hearts full of sweat desires on our brow

If I cling to honesty
Will the cycle stop with me?
I wish I could fly away
I wish I could fly away
I wish I could fly away
I wish I could fly away
But instead I’ll cling
Instead I’ll cling now to the day

INTRO
G-C
G-C
G-C
Am-D

VERSE 1
G			C
So much for all the lessons right
G			C
Our parents sang to us at night
G				C
Tucked us into foggy beds and said
		Am			D
What dreams may fill your head

G						C
Now we struggle to make peace
		G			C
With the future put on lease
		G			C
The hypocrisy obfuscates
	Am			D
My sense of morality

G			C
Footprints poster on the wall
G			C
My mom’s on a phone call
G			C
1993 I hear her say
Am			D
The devil’s on his way

PRECHORUS 1
Em. D		C				D
I think we know where it goes from here
Em			D				C			D
The best intentions can be smothered hard by fear

CHORUS
	C		D
If I cling to honesty
C			D
Will the cycle break with me?
C			D
I wish I could fly away
C			D
For now I’ll get through the day

G-C
G-C
G-C
Am-D

VERSE 2
G						C
You’re resilient that’s your curse
G					C
The singing style all bright and terse
G				C
For the glow around the stairs
Am					D
Leading to forgotten cares

G	    C
Your ancestors hiss
G		C
In your ear and then you kiss
G			C
The fog round your baby’s eyes
Am 			D
A tunnel out of lies

PRECHORUS 2
Em		D			C			D
Morning mist falling on the screen of your phone
Em		D			C			D
See a panther in your ring alarm when you’re alone

CHORUS
	C		D
If I cling to honesty
C			D
Will the cycle break with me?
C			D
I wish I could fly away
C			D
For now I’ll get through the day

G-C
G-C
G-C
Am-D

GUITAR SOLO
G-C
G-C
G-C
Am-D

PRECHORUS 3
Em	D		C			D
We stare down the future now
Em			D			C		D
Our hearts full of sweat desires on our brow

CHORUS
	C		D
If I cling to honesty
C			D
Will the cycle stop with me?
C			D
I wish I could fly away
C			D
I wish I could fly away
C			D
I wish I could fly away
C			D
I wish I could fly away
C			D
But instead I’ll cling
C			D
Instead I’ll cling now to the day

OUTRO
G-C
G-C
G-C

My cries are muffled by autumn leaves
I empty my heart like a magician clearing his sleeves
I drain my blood down a winding stairway
She says I want to love you babe but you’re always standing in my way

I know there’s something better
There’s always something better

I know it’s not heaven
No no it’s not heaven
When I lay in your arms
But when you play all your charms
It’s hell to be without you

A suitcase on a platform by your bed
Leave dead the memories of me now haunting your head
Abandon my gnashing and wailing ghost
Staring in the minds of the brokenhearted host

I know there’s something better
There’s always something better

I know it’s not heaven
No no it’s not heaven
When I lay in your arms
But when you play all your charms
It’s hell to be without you

Love teaches nothing but how to lose
Takes away some suffering but you lose the will to choose
She’s half-crazy oh I know pull the plank from my eye
I sing in desperation read a regret in her sigh

I know it’s not heaven
No no it’s not heaven
When I lay in your arms
But when you play all your charms
It’s hell to be without you

INTRO

C/C/G/F X4

VERSE 1
C			G			F		C		G	F
My cries are muffled by autumn leaves
C			G			F		C				G	F
I empty my heart like a magician clearing his sleeves
C			G			F		C		G	F
I drain my blood down a winding stairway
C						G			F			C			G	F
She says I want to love you babe but you’re always standing in my way

PRECHORUS
Am				G		F
I know there’s something better
Am		G				F	G
There’s always something better

CHORUS
C		Em		F		G
I know it’s not heaven
C		Em		F		G
No no it’s not heaven
				F
When I lay in your arms
			G				F
But when you play all your charms
				G
It’s hell to be without you

VERSE 2
C			G			F		C		G	F
A suitcase on a platform by your bed
C				G			F		C			G	F
Leave dead the memories of me now haunting your head
C			G			F		C		G	F
Abandon my gnashing and wailing ghost
C			G			F			C		G	F
Staring in the minds of the brokenhearted host

Am				G		F
I know there’s something better
Am		G				F	G
There’s always something better

C		Em		F		G
I know it’s not heaven
C		Em		F		G
No no it’s not heaven
				F
When I lay in your arms
			G				F
But when you play all your charms
				G
It’s hell to be without you

Em						Am
Love teaches nothing but how to lose
Em								Am
Takes away some suffering but you lose the will to choose
Em					Am
She’s half-crazy oh I know pull the plank from my eye
Em						Am			F
I sing in desperation read a regret in her sigh

C		Em		F		G
I know it’s not heaven
C		Em		F		G
No no it’s not heaven
				F
When I lay in your arms
			G				F
But when you play all your charms
				G
It’s hell to be without you

So much to be grateful for
So much to lean upon
But every day I wake up hours
Before the dawn
Ready for the day to play its long con

The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
Give up you always lose anyway

I want to do better now
Focus on the kids
But then the day hits
It’s like a full-time job keeping your bitterness hid

The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
Give up you always lose anyway

Red poison in my cup
The dull slide to the drains you can’t pass up
You never know a when or a stop

The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
Give up you always lose anyway

You can’t beat every feeling
There’s a limit to the healing one can do
Can I get a ride from you

The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
Give up you always lose anyway

Db-Gb-Db-Ab-Bbm-Ab-Gb-Db

VERSE 1
Db
So much to be grateful for
So much to lean upon
But every day I wake up hours
			Gb
Before the dawn
							Db
Ready for the day to play its long con

CHORUS
Ab						Bbm	    		Ab			Gb
The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Ab							Bbm		Ab			Gb
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
						Db
Give up you always lose anyway

Db/Db/Gb/Db

VERSE 2
Db
I want to do better now
Focus on the kids
Gb
But then the day hits
It’s like a full-time job keeping your bitterness hid

CHORUS
Ab						Bbm	    		Ab			Gb
The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Ab							Bbm		Ab			Gb
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
						Db
Give up you always lose anyway

Db/Db/Gb/Db

VERSE 3

Db
Red poison in my cup
									Gb
The dull slide to the drains you can’t pass up
						Db
You never know a when or a stop

CHORUS
Ab						Bbm	    		Ab			Gb
The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Ab							Bbm		Ab			Gb
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
						Db
Give up you always lose anyway

Db/Db/Gb/Db

VERSE 4
Db
You can’t beat every feeling
								Gb
There’s a limit to the healing one can do
					Db
Can I get a ride from you

CHORUS
Ab						Bbm	    		Ab			Gb
The staring contests you play with your demons every day
Ab							Bbm		Ab			Gb
Your eyes are burning as you hear them laugh and say
						Db
Give up you always lose anyway

Db/Db/Gb/Db

Spoken word: “I’m gonna kill you”

We look up to the endless sky
Shuffle clouds and bury the moon
The trees slow dancing with the power lines
Cradled by the night’s cocoon
Spiders outline a shadow of her bed
Demons pantomime my wailing head
The crickets singing hallelujah
I’m bludgeoned by the stars

I’m imprisoned in a tower in your eyes
Escape down your hair like a ladder of vines

In my eyes a barren winter tree
The streets corrode like memories of misery
Oh life’s a game of cards that we play
With a deck of 2s and 3s

I’m imprisoned in a tower in your eyes
Escape down your hair like a ladder of vines

My fumbling heart my crumbling hands
My patron saint is crippled my ghost can’t stand
I cry into my pillow and I swoon
What did I bury with the moon?

Intro
Spoken word: “I’m gonna kill you”
Eb
Eb-E/C7

VERSE 1
F			Db			Bb
We look up to the endless sky
Db				Bb			Dm
Shuffle clouds and bury the moon
	G								Bb
The trees slow dancing with the power lines
		C				F
Cradled by the night’s cocoon
F				Db			Bb
Spiders outline a shadow of her bed
Db			Bb				Dm
Demons pantomime my wailing head
	G				Bb
The crickets singing hallelujah
	C				F
I’m bludgeoned by the stars

CHORUS
Ab				Cm7			F
I’m imprisoned in a tower in your eyes
Ab				Eb			Eb  E/C7
Escape down your hair like a ladder of vines

VERSE
F			Db			Bb
In my eyes a barren winter tree
Db				Bb			Dm
The streets corrode like memories of misery
	G								Bb
Oh life’s a game of cards that we play
		C				F
With a deck of 2s and 3s
INSTRUMENTAL VERSE
F-Db-Bb-Db-Bb-Dm-G-Bb-C-F

CHORUS
Ab				Cm7			F
I’m imprisoned in a tower in your eyes
Ab				Eb			Eb  E/C7
Escape down your hair like a ladder of vines

VERSE 3
F			Db			Bb
My fumbling heart my crumbling hands
Db				Bb					Dm
My patron saint is crippled my ghost can’t stand
	G				Bb
I cry into my pillow and I swoon
		C				F
What did I bury with the moon?

F
Eb-E-F

Crackling light sometimes gets through
I differentiate the blues
That come around this time of year
And washes grey all your birthday cheer
The road is shining but your feet are numb

We live in a desolate land
That marks the things that we have planned
When we smell
Carnations in the wind

You wake up and make the bed
Make coffee
Run your day in your head
If life’s for living what’s living for

By now yes it is well known
I am so endlessly alone

Birds fly over a mountain range
Only fools think people can change
Try to will beauty into the mirror
Reality is both a shadow and clear
I can’t say what it’s like to feel like myself

The autopilot set on my heart
I’m sick of loneliness but where do I start
This isolation so ossified

By now yes it is well known
I am so endlessly alone

Endlessly Alone
Endlessly Alone

Contentment lying on shattered glass
Listening to all things must pass
Learn to wreck our lives for the sake of the song

Another grey winter birthday
You won’t believe me
But I still say
There’s no one in this world like you

E riff

E
Crackling light sometimes gets through
I differentiate the blues
That come around this time of year
								C#m
And washes grey all your birthday cheer
			A					E
The road is shining but your feet are numb

E
We live in a desolate land
That marks the things that we have planned
C#m		A
When we smell
				E
Carnations in the wind

E
You wake up and make the bed
Make coffee
					C#m
Run your day in your head
			A				E
If life’s for living what’s living for

B			A		E
By now yes it is well known
B			A		E
I am so endlessly alone

E
Birds fly over a mountain range
Only fools think people can change
Try to will beauty into the mirror
							C#m
Reality is both a shadow and clear
		A					E
I can’t say what it’s like to feel like myself

E
The autopilot set on my heart
							C#m
I’m sick of loneliness but where do I start
		A			E
This isolation so ossified

B			A		E
By now yes it is well known
B			A		E
I am so endlessly alone

F#			Am
Endlessly Alone
F#			Am
Endlessly Alone

E
Contentment lying on shattered glass
						C#m
Listening to all things must pass
		A						E
Learn to wreck our lives for the sake of the song

E
Another grey winter birthday
You won’t believe me
		C#m
But I still say
		A				E
There’s no one in this world like you

Sara yes I get it I can see
You could never love someone who looks even vaguely like me
Then she says that we can laugh about our scars
Sara says the things that I can’t hear
Is it always gonna feel this way
Is it always gonna feel this way
Sara your indifference makes me cry

Here we go again with the memory of an eyes closed kiss
Here we go with all the things I can’t mention that I miss
Here we go again roll a blanket underneath the stars
I can still hear locusts in your undressed eyes

Guess it’s always gonna feel this way
Guess it’s always gonna feel this way
Sara your indifference kills my heart

So it’s always gonna feel this way
So it’s always gonna feel this way
Sara your indifference kills my heart

Opening riff:

F-C-Bb
F-C-Bb

Dm			Bb			F	C
Sara yes I get it I can see
Dm			Bb				F	  		C
You could never love someone who looks even vaguely like me
Dm			Bb				F			C
Then she says that we can laugh about our scars
Bb			Gm				F
Sara says the things that I can’t hear
Bb				F			C
Is it always gonna feel this way
Bb				F			C
Is it always gonna feel this way
Bb				Db
Sara your indifference makes me cry

F-C-Bb
F-C-Bb

Dm		Bb					F					C
Here we go again with the memory of an eyes closed kiss
Dm		Bb					F					C
Here we go with all the things I can’t mention that I miss
Dm		Bb				F					C
Here we go again roll a blanket underneath the stars
Bb				Gm				F
I can still hear locusts in your undressed eyes

Bb				F			C
Guess it’s always gonna feel this way
Bb				F			C
Guess it’s always gonna feel this way
Bb				Db
Sara your indifference kills my heart

GUITAR SOLO VERSE PROGRESSION
Dm-Bb-F-C
Dm-Bb-F-C
Dm-Bb-F-C
Bb-Gm-F

Bb				F			C
So it’s always gonna feel this way
Bb				F			C
So it’s always gonna feel this way
Bb				Db
Sara your indifference kills my heart

Sunday morning in a Starbucks I know I’m past my peak
Maybe there’s a better version of me I should have sought to seek
I’m picking up your order for you, ask them for a heart on your cup
From our bed you said an oat milk latte can you pick it up?

The dreamer in me
Loves the dreamer in you

It’s very in the realm of possibility
To be chained to your wanting to be free
You say it’s hard to live if you question all you see
And I wonder how and why did I have to become me

The dreamer in me
Loves the dreamer in you

There’s nothing new under the sun
But really it’s the same with the moon
You tie your hair back with dexterity
And I have no room to do anything but swoon

The dreamer in me
Loves the dreamer in you

I say be patient with me
For what feels like the trillionth time
I stress shop online in the middle of the night
And in the day try to stretch every dime

The dreamer in me
Loves the dreamer in you

We’re walking down to the race they’re running wild
The barricades are set up all round the town
Your breath mixes with the coffee steam
As you pull your cup to your lips
And with stale morning breath whisper
I would never run this far in a million years
I laugh and wish I could pull off grey hair like you do
And I watch the fog of your breath as it disappears

The dreamer in me
Loves the dreamer in you

What if you dreamt you went to the clouds
Picked a flower from their shroud
Woke up with the flower in your hand

From the observatory I whisper to the sky
Let the truth of the ages help me fly

Theoretical three dimensional lines
Hamilton, I just kid, the invisible binds
The more you learn the less you know
Cross a midnight bridge it goes to show

In an instant the world
Reveals itself to you
Through the dissonant hours
A startling calm cuts through
A world parallel
Scratched into concrete memory
A bridge to and through eternity

The quaternions rotate like moons around flashing eyes
The four-dimensional tricks God plays
Buried by lies
Had a dream I ascended into the clouds
Woke up covered and clothed in cumulus clouds

In the waiting room we first clicked over
Puzzles and crayons
Amidst the smell of hospitals in fall I
Craved your hands
Same hands I hold now walking with you
Neath the night and nebula
Still

That’s how it was now
How will it be
Don’t mistake this for
Hyperbole
I don’t want to spend our lives dwelling
On the things we’ll miss
So I’ll close my eyes and brace for your kiss

Slow dancing in your college dorm room
After I snuck in your window
You always fell asleep so fast
I pass the time on your skin’s moon glow
Three flowers blooming
Three angels over our back garden
I swear that when I still see you
I still need my heart’s pardon

That’s how it was now
How will it be
Don’t mistake this for
Hyperbole
I don’t want to spend our lives dwelling
On the things we’ll miss
So I’ll close my eyes and brace for your kiss

NOTE:
The C/F chord could also be looked at as a Cmaj7/9
Suggested guitar chords:

X35430
Or
132013

INTRO:
C/F    /Em7   /Dm   /Am - C/

VERSE 1
C/F		Em7				Dm
In the waiting room we first clicked over
Am   			 C
Puzzles and crayons
C/F		Em7				Dm
Amidst the smell of hospitals in fall I
Am			C
Craved your hands
C/F			Em7				Dm
Same hands I hold now walking with you
		Am			C
Neath the night and nebula
C/F		Em7				Dm
Still

CHORUS

F			G
That’s how it was now
Em			Am
How will it be
F			G
Don’t mistake this for
Em		A
Hyperbole
			F					G
I don’t want to spend our lives dwelling
				Em			Am-G
On the things we’ll miss
F					G				A
So I’ll close my eyes and brace for your kiss

VERSE 2
C/F					Em7
Slow dancing in your college dorm room
Dm				Am		C
After I snuck in your window
				C/F			Em7
You always fell asleep so fast
		Dm			C			Am
I pass the time on your skin’s moon glow
C/F			Em7
Three flowers blooming
		Dm				Am		C
Three angels over our back garden
			C/F			Em
I swear that when I still see you
	Dm		C		Am
I still need my heart’s pardon

CHORUS

F			G
That’s how it was now
Em			Am
How will it be
F			G
Don’t mistake this for
Em		A
Hyperbole
			F					G
I don’t want to spend our lives dwelling
				Em			Am-G
On the things we’ll miss
F					G				A
So I’ll close my eyes and brace for your kiss

OUTRO:
A major chord