Winter Solstice chords by MewithoutYou

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G
Asus2
C
Em
Esus4

Verse 1
Am 
Winter solstice,
G 
the earth open wide
With a heart crushed like footsteps
Am 
in snow
Asus2 
(Fictitious persons
Am 
disclaimers implied
G 
Am 
To all listening from rooftops below)
It had rained and the air was
G 
like perfume outside
As the sky changed
C 
Em 

Verse 2
Am 
Asus2 
We began when the ground
Am 
G 
was still dry
Planting vineyards where
Am 
vineyards don't grow
Asus2 
Shaping cypress with
Am 
G 
pitch on  both sides
For the nights when our
Am 
trumpets won't blow
That regret still there circling
G 
like vultures inside
C 
Em 
As your face changed?
G 
They don't stay inside
C 
(There but for Thy grace go I)

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Verse 3
G 
Through the eyes of machines,
Am 
immaculate scenes
Em 
That had already passed me by
C 
All the stars on the ground,
G 
Am 
Noah's ark in the clouds
Em 
Set sail in the flood of my mind
C 
G 
The other animals drowned
Am 
in blasphemous towns
Em 
C 
And asked as they passed me by:
G 
"Was to do as I please a
European disease?"
Am 
Em 

Verse 4
Am 
Winter solstice,
G 
the earth had closed down
So with breastplates of
Am 
righteousness low
Searched for streams in
G 
the caves underground
Am 
Where the Baptists and bootleggers go
And you smile but your vampire
G 
complexion still shows
C 
Em 
And your past shows
G 
It's really all that shows
C 
(So often unrecognizably so)
G 
Through the eyes of machines

Verse 5
Am 
viewed immaculate scenes
Em 
That had already passed me by
C 
G 
All the stars on the ground,
Am 
Noah's ark in the clouds
Em 
But the thought in the back
C 
of my mind:
G 
"Does my misery feed a
Am 
metaphysical need
Em 
That's long since passed me by
C 
G 
Neither reasoning why

Verse 6
Nor offering reply?"
Am 
Em 
Esus4 
Em 
Dear
C 
Em 
Esus4 
Em 
C 
my newlywed wife
G 
Am 
You're not the love of my life
Em 
C 
It had already passed me by
G 
Finally grasping the line
Casting pearls before swine?