Key: C minor
Verse 1
C#m
Spring it came upon us,
G#m
Every insect filled the air
F#
Dropped their wings upon my brother,
C#m
Cast their shadows on his hair
Verse 2
C#m
If we follow where they're leading,
G#m
We will surely come before
F#
Some unseen and wondrous magic
C#m
Made of visions to explore
F#
Near the town
Verse 3
where we were living
C#m
Was an old abandoned farm
F#
Every year we'd plant an orchid
C#m
In the shel ter of it's arm
F#
To protect us from the madness
C#m
Of the future still to come
G#m
It will be like this forever
E
F#
I will keep you safe from harm
C#m
Interlude 1
G#m
E
F#
C#m
Verse 4
C#m
Then they caught us in the summer
G#m
Dressed in fathers finest clothes
F#
You the hat he wore to market
C#m
I the jacket filled with holes
Verse 5
C#m
I've been searchins all these hours
G#m
For a hand as pale as bone
F#
That would keep the strongest sunlight
C#m
And reflect the brightest stone
Verse 6
F#
Near the town where we were living
C#m
Was a warm and fragrant smell
F#
Of the orchid we had planted
C#m
Now a forest tall and well
F#
What a statue to our greatness
C#m
What a story all will tell
G#m
They'll remember us forever
E
They'll remember where we fell
F#
Interlude 2
C#m
G#m
F#
F#sus4
F#
C#m
Verse 7
C#m
This old dark machine,
it shakes and it shudders
B
Pulls to the left,
then dies near the gutter
F#
But still in the road,
the traffic is silent
C#m
The people they stare,
and then they turn violent
A
If they should touch,
the hem of your dress
C#m
I would rise like a lion, strike out again
E
The faithful they wait, the faithful they wait
B
By the sign
E
Near the
Verse 8
F#
town where we were living
C#m
Came a loud and joyous sound
F#
As the earth and all her beauty
C#m
Picked us up from off the ground
F#
Carried far across the mountain
C#m
To a kingdom never bound
A
E
We will live like this forever
F#
I will love you
E
C#m
G#m
F#
C#m
I will love
G#m
C#m
F#
C#m
you
G#m
I will love you
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TunerE A D G B E
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