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