Key: B minor•
Intro 1
Bm
F
Bm
Cm
Bm
F
Bm
Cm
Bm
Cm
Bm
D#dim
Bm
D#dim
Bm
Am
Bm
D#dim
Bm
D#dim
Bm
Cm
Bm
D#dim
Bm
Cdim
D#dim
F#dim
F#m
Bm
Verse 1
Bm
D
Bm
There's a ghost that grows inside of us, damaged in the making
Bm
D
Bm
elliptical and drowned
D
Bm
Where the moving quiet of our insomnia
Am
Bm
Cm
offers up each thought
Bm
D#dim
Bm
There's a luminous field of grey inertia,
F
Bm
and obsidian dreams burned all the way down
A
Verse 2
Bm
Arabesque ink wandering,
Em
Bm
D
Bm
winds itself around our ovate dreams
F#m
Bm
We seem to speak only in the im
D
G
Bm
precise geometries of black volcanic sands
Em
Huge, impossibly regular shapes of rutted char
Bm
D
Bm
F#m
Bm
D
coal rocks hover above us
As if waiting
G
Bm
Verse 3
G
Em
G
We do not live, we are lived
Bm
Verse 4
Am
Am
Bm
C
Cm
Bm
quiet black basalt pools
Am
Bm
B
Bore into the rocks and our own patiently wither
Cdim
D#dim
F#dim
D#dim
Bm
ing bones
Slumbering swells of a salt- borne amnesia
Bm
D
Bm
Scorched, wandering
Brine secretes from every pore
Cdim
D#dim
F#dim
Verse 5
Bm
F#m
Bm
The lumin ous point where logic
becomes contemplation
Bm
D
Bm
adrift in deep space
G
Bm
D
G
sleepwalking seas
Verse 6
G
Em
G
We do not live, we are lived
C#
C#5
C
Pessimism, the last refuge of hope
D
Interlude 1
Em
F
G
F#m
C#
C#5
C#m
C#5
C#
Verse 7
D
Em
a thousand million firefly anatomies
F
G
F#m
Breathe in and out in their slow burning,
Impersonal sadness, to become overgrown,
F#m
Bm
D
D#dim
like a ru in
Verse 8
G
Em
do not live, we are lived
G
Pessimism,
C#
C#5
G
the last refuge of hope
Verse 9
G
Em
G
We do not live, we are lived
C#
C#5
Pessimism, the last refuge of hope
Interlude 2
Bm
Cm
Bm
Am
D
Bm
Cm
C
Bm
F
G
F#m
F
Bm
Verse 10
Cm
C
Bm
Am
D
We do not live, we are lived
Bm
Cm
C
Cosmic pessimism,
Bm
F
F#m
the last refuge of hope
Outro 1
Bm
F#m
D
F#m
D
E
F
Dm
D
E
E
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