Key: C minor
Verse 1
F#m
Spring it came upon us,
C#m
Every insect filled the air
B
Dropped their wings upon my brother,
F#m
Cast their shadows on his hair
Verse 2
F#m
If we follow where they're leading,
C#m
We will surely come before
B
Some unseen and wondrous magic
F#m
Made of visions to explore
B
Near the town
Verse 3
where we were living
F#m
Was an old abandoned farm
B
Every year we'd plant an orchid
F#m
In the shel ter of it's arm
B
To protect us from the madness
F#m
Of the future still to come
C#m
It will be like this forever
A
B
I will keep you safe from harm
F#m
Interlude 1
C#m
A
B
F#m
Verse 4
F#m
Then they caught us in the summer
C#m
Dressed in fathers finest clothes
B
You the hat he wore to market
F#m
I the jacket filled with holes
Verse 5
F#m
I've been searchins all these hours
C#m
For a hand as pale as bone
B
That would keep the strongest sunlight
F#m
And reflect the brightest stone
Verse 6
B
Near the town where we were living
F#m
Was a warm and fragrant smell
B
Of the orchid we had planted
F#m
Now a forest tall and well
B
What a statue to our greatness
F#m
What a story all will tell
C#m
They'll remember us forever
A
They'll remember where we fell
B
Interlude 2
F#m
C#m
B
Bsus4
B
F#m
Verse 7
F#m
This old dark machine,
it shakes and it shudders
E
Pulls to the left,
then dies near the gutter
B
But still in the road,
the traffic is silent
F#m
The people they stare,
and then they turn violent
D
If they should touch,
the hem of your dress
F#m
I would rise like a lion, strike out again
A
The faithful they wait, the faithful they wait
E
By the sign
A
Near the
Verse 8
B
town where we were living
F#m
Came a loud and joyous sound
B
As the earth and all her beauty
F#m
Picked us up from off the ground
B
Carried far across the mountain
F#m
To a kingdom never bound
D
A
We will live like this forever
B
I will love you
A
F#m
C#m
B
F#m
I will love
C#m
F#m
B
F#m
you
C#m
I will love you
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m C#m B A Bsus4...
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