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