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