Key: D minor
Intro 1
Am
E
Bdim
Dm
F
Am
Esus4
E
Am
E
At the dead of night, I woke
Verse 1
E
C
with the sense that my dreams were escaping,
E
Am
E
F
all uncannily un spoken
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Dm
F
E
Am
like words at the tip of a foreign
E
tongue...
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Esus4
Am
Esus4
E
Verse 2
Am
Esus4
As for language, I have none
to express quite what strangeness
E
Am
something's changed
F
E
G
and something tells me
Dm
F
Am
to be still in the roar of
Esus4
E
the dis tant stars.
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Am
E
The night's full of fire, ice and water;
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Am
Dm
C
E
by day I'll have clay in my hands.
Verse 3
the odds are stacked that I'm facing.
Eyes grown accustomed
to light and dark
can't catch the shadows they're chasing.
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F#
E
Open, my heart, to the vital spark –
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B
Em
a disordered rhythm is racing,
Esus4
Am
G
it's a danse macab
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F
re I'm tracing.
E
Interlude 1
Esus4
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Esus4
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Esus4
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Esus4
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Esus4
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Esus4
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Esus4
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Verse 4
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Esus4
As the fire feeds the flame,
E
Em
as the tongue finds expression
Am
E
in its flickering,
Am
Esus4
E
does each breath inform a name
to be dispersed just as soon
Am
E
as it's exhaled?
Am
E
Esus4
Was it to myself I came
Em
Am
Esus4
parallel existence?
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Em
E
F
Fdim
Will I ever see to morrow,
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Dm
F
Am
to wake and
begin it again?
E
Verse 5
Open, the book at a well- read page,
hope triumphs over expectation;
open, the secrets of seer and sage
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E
in awe- inspired anticipation...
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
F#
E
Open, my mind in the body's cage,
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F#
unchained in consecration;
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E
Em
E
the firestorm of liberation –
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C
Em
F
Am
the night in
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Am
Esus4
Em
conflagration.
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E
Verse 7
Esus4
E
With a shiver down my spine
I come back to the place
C
E
where I started;
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E
Bdim
parted
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Am
E
but stranded is all that I feel for sure.
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Dm
F
E
As nightsight declines into darkness
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Am
A
Am
E
E
by day there'll be clay in my hands.
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Dm
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F
E
I may feel the clay in my hands.
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