Tom: Em
(Em) (Am) (G) (D) (C) (Gm)
G#m C#m B F# E Bm
E|--0----0----2----2----0----3--------------------------------|
B|--0----1----2----3----1----3--------------------------------|
G|--0----2----0----2----0----3--------------------------------|
D|--2----2----0----0----2----6--------------------------------|
A|--2----0----0----x----3----x--------------------------------|
E|--0----x----3----x----0----x--------------------------------|
The chords in parentheses are the chord shapes as played without a capo while the ones below them are the actual chord names.
Em has a slide up like this occasionally.
E|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
B|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
G|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
D|-x--2--2-------2--2--2--2--|
A|-x--2--2--1/2--2--2--2--2--|
E|-0--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
[Verse 1]
Em
The future can't sleep,
Am
It doesn't need to, It dreams standing
C
up like the statues In
G
the gardens we'll pass through-
D
Past the guardians at the gatepost, The Light
Em Am C
how it gives and it takes.
Em
Pitch black, the poles lost their
Am C
grip, Let the axis reverse
C
Precious balance of mind now disturbed
C
This world, it slips and
Em C Em
tears. And if the smoke ever clears,
[Chorus 1]
G
Will the southern skies now host
D
The Northern Lights? Let's
Em
make pretend
Am D
It was all a delusion,
Am D
It's all in your head.
Am D
It was all an illusion,
Am D
Like gold out like gold
out of (lead)
[Verse 2]
Em
The present can't see,
Am
It is blind but has visions Of
C
pillage and pilgrimage,
G
The purging of empires
D
Tyrants, their treasonous
Em
wars...
Am C
Then without warning its done.
Em
A clean slate just feels like a
Am
dead weight, The burdens of
C Em
surface stone Scrapes
C Em
skin from bones,
[Chorus 1]
G
As we crawled across dark parking
D Em
lots, Felt the forest floor cringe...
Am C
And let the cities cave in.
[Verse 3]
Em
The past lost its voice, It can't
Am
speak but was spoken for
C
By pundit and prophet...
[Chorus 1]
G
Until the dust clouds around us
D Em
Eroded our embellished belief
[Bridge 1]
Am C
In some fixed history.
C
Could we recognize
D
Symbols made of smoke?
[Chorus 2]
Across the
G D
canopy,
C D
That soft-spoken sky,
G D
Burnt by the torchlight
C D
As we chart out the ley-line.
G D
Pray the earth it won't
C D
break one more time,
G D
All the voices we heard As
C D Em
we followed the fault lines.
[Verse 4]
Em D
Devoured, digested, cast out...
Em D C
Decomposed... x2
[Bridge 2]
Em D x4
Em D
[Verse 5]
C Em
Gods arrive
C Em C
Line of dark chariots
Em
Starlight dies
C Em C
I can't bury it yet
Em
Wheels of fire
Em C
Swing they so low
Em
Fade to black
Em D
Carry us home
[Verse 6]
Em
Polaris slips her tongue Through a
Am
kiss made out of cinders,
C
In a marriage of chemicals.
G
The sky's sulphur heart, carved-out
D
veins of slate, The pulse of the
Em
earth- How it
Am C
sinks and it slows.
Em Am
An oil corn and wine coated keystone, The archway,
[Bridge 3]
C
two columns (now ash and dust)
C
Frame this path for us,
C Em
The undeserved- Brought low and
C Em
unpreserved
[Partal Chorus 1]
G D
From this unhallowed gaze, we profane; The cursed abandon
Em
the weak,
[Bridge 4]
Am D
To stagger on in a stolen
Am D Em
display Of confusion, of faith.
[Break]
Em Am C
[Verse 7]
Em
The North Star, she nods out,
Am
Doused her torch, left us forever
C
Without promise or penance.
[Partal Chorus 1]
G
We're left to merge with the trench, Taught
D Em
the cruelties that it takes to survive. (to survive)
[Verse 8]
Am C
Just accept to be free.
Em
I used to waste my skin,
Am
Shed my time, change my colors,
C
Until I settled for peace
[Partal Chorus 1]
G
In death, an emerald sea stands
D
before me Unveiled
Em
but unbowed
[Bridge 5]
Am C
Each wave's a rainbow of sound.
C
Could we recognize
D
Any signal in the noise?
[Chorus 2]
G D
Across that static sea,
C D
O, crestfallen sky
G D
Yearn for the currents
C D G
That carved out the ley-line.
D C D
Pray the earth it won't break one more time,
G D
All the voices we heard As we
C D
followed the fault line.
G Gm Em D C D
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
G D C D
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
G D C D
Pray the earth it won't break one more time
G D C D
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
G D C D
Pray the earth it won't break,
G D C D
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
G D C D
Pray the earth it won't break,
G D C D Em
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
[Verse 4]
Em D
Devour, break down and black out...
Em D C
Decompose... x2
D Em
