Intro
F#
[Verse 1]
D#m F# D#m F#
Folds in the wind; the wake of rock and pen
D#m F# D#m F#
O you mystery: can the mind fit in the brain?
[Hook 1]
B
The drop of a jaw
F#
The click of a tongue
C# D#m
Larynx and lung
B F# A#m
To etchings in clay of glyphs and cuneiform;
(x2)
[Verse 2]
B F# C#
Once the "farmer", not the "man-on-the-farm"
B F# C#
Our ziggurat bricks all baked up from the ground
B F# C# F# B
But that day she fell like cold water on my comfortably ignorant skin
F# C#
I knew our life defined our words unalike…
B C# F#
When I woke, we were smoke on a tight rope afloat on the notion:
D#m B F# A#m
"if all of this is arbitrary, why does it happen at all?"
B F# C#
And it's been years of my trying to make sense of one week
(Drop of the jaw, the click of the tongue, larnyx and lung)
D#m B F# A#m
I didn't know it then, but that verse she penned--I found in her log--would ruin me:
(To etchings in clay of glyphs and cuneiform)
[Verse 3]
B F# C# F#
"O dear heart, locked away
B F# C#
Given but description of a window to light your way
B C# F#
Would dare thee bell, a song to sing?
B F#
Take care, the way out is more damaging."
[Interlude 1]
B F# D#m C#
B D#m A#m
B F# D#m C#
B D#m A#m
[Hook 2]
C# G#m
One says a word, one in turn interprets it
G# C#
But when unique things use generic means…is anything ever being said?
C# D#m
One says a word, one in turn interprets it
G#m G# C#
But when unique things use generic means
[Hook 3]
B F# D#m F#
"It's the gaps between the waves that make the tones we hear realizable.
B F# D#m
"It's the gaps between...
B F# D#m G#m
"It's the gaps between the waves that make the tones we hear realizable.
B D#m F# D#m Fm
Still every crest is aching to shake to be as one!
[Spoken words]
F#
[Interlude 2]
B F# C#
(x4)
[Build-Up]
B F# C#
"R A# C"
B F# C#
"O N S"
B F# C#
"T R U"
B F# C#
"F# T"
B F# C#
"R A# C" They're falling now, They're calling out
B F# C#
"O N S"
B F# C#
"T R U" They're falling now, They're calling out
B F# C#
"F# T" To know...
B F# C#
"R A# C" They're falling now, They're calling out!
B F# C#
"O N S" To know their worth!
B F# C#
"T R U" They're falling now, They're calling out!
B F# C#
"F# T" To know their worth!
N.C.
[Breakdown]
B F# C#
The parts ache for resolve!
"R A# C" They're falling now, They're calling out!
B F# C#
My parts ache for resolve!
"O N S" To know their worth!
B F# C#
The parts ache for resolve!
"T R U" They're falling now, They're calling out!
B F# C#
My parts ache for resolve!
"F# T" To know their worth!
[Outro]
F#
My parts ache for resolve