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