Key: G major
Intro 1
G#m
C#
G#m
C#
G#m
C#
F#
C#
G#m
C#
Verse 1
G#m
B
The forest awakes
C#
F#
B
C#
A desert at dawn
And the rhythm moves on
Verse 2
F#
B
people awake
F#
G#m
The streets are alive
G#m
C#
Forwards and back wards in every
Verse 3
D#m
B
C#
direction
G#m
C#
F#
C#
G#m
The abs' perpetual motion
C#
G#m
The shifting of light on
F#
D#m
B
C#
the bank s of the river
G#m
C#
I'm free, but I'm keeping my clothes on
Verse 4
C#
G#m
B
C#
I'm marching along
The street where you live
The song is a road
G#m
C#
A road is a face
G#m
C#
A face is a time
And a time is a place
The heart is a simple equation
With beautiful words and
with beautiful people
C#
G#m
F#
C#
Interlude 1
G#m
F#
C#
D#m
F#
G#m
D#m
F#
B
C#
G#m
F#
C#
F#
B
C#
D#m
F#
Verse 5
F#
B
F#
A fruit that falls before it's grown
B
F#
I heard a sound and a bird has flown
G#m
F#
C#
F#
G#m
It breaks to pieces above the forest
F#
C#
F#
B
F#
A million particles born today
C#
B
F#
C#
F#
Out beyond the blue horizon
B
F#
C#
D#
Air cannot escape
G#
A#
G#
Underneath the weeping willow
E#m
A#
E#m
A#
I can see your face
D
E
D
Free- form, climbing all over me
F#m
A
D
Creatures great and small
E
D
Doctors pulling them out of you
E
D
A#
Hideous, virtuous, both of us
D#
Come
Verse 6
A#
G#
A#
in my kit chen
when it rains outside
Gm
D#
A#
Sweet inspiration sneaks up from
Interlude 2
behind
A#
D#
A#
G#m
B
G#m
B
D#aug
D#
Verse 7
D#
A#
G#m
Forest is true
C#
G#m
C#
I know for a fact
F#
C#
F#
The big ger the front
G#m
C#
G#m
Then the bigger the back
Verse 8
The bombs burst in air
My hair is alright
the trees and the houses
C#
C#
F#
The strangeness of words
How the meaning keeps changing
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