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