Tonalidad: D minor
Intro 1
Am
C
Am
Though
Verse 1
by
the path I lead
Em
Am
E
The passing of time and the pouring of tea
Am
Are all I've lately seen
Em
G
F
Am
E
O my soul {SH 159}
Am
Until the temporal bridge be burned
Em
Am
Until our anchor stocks hold firm
F
Em
E
Am
Where the hands of
clocks don't turn
E
G
O my soul
F
Am
E
Am
May our lips remain discreet
E
While your traps are beneath our feet
Am
E
F
But how long before our tails are caught
Am
E
By our "free" thought?
F
G
Sugar in the cane, candles low
F
G
Kettle on the flame for the teapot? No
Dm
C
I tremble at the thought
F
G
Sugar in the cane, candles low
F
G
Southside Flats where the up scale go
Dm
C
Dm
I tremble at the thought!
C
On
Verse 2
G
E
Am
the Streets of Mexican Wars
C
Am
I battle with the memory
of a first fight
F
In our contemptible youth
E
I quoted White Nights
Am
"My God, a moment of bliss
Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetimes?"
F. Dostoevsky
F
C
Thinking that'd get rid of you
Am
And waited with a stone in my hand
F
E
But you were quite right
Am
Nature had another plan
C
E
(& failed to run it by me)
Am
Nature had another plan
F
E
Some other surrogate self
Am
F
To live in the sediment of so many
E
Am
somebody elses'
F
E
Innumerable lives and you were right:
F
Am
It's not a person who dies
E
But worlds die inside us,
Sugar in the cane and the
G
candles are low
F
On the West End Bridge looking
G
down at the Ohio River
Dm
C
I tremble at the thought of what's
often referred to as 'karma'
F
G
The sugar and the candles are gone
F
You panic like a mouse when the
lights go on
G
Dm
C
(I ADMIT, IT WARMS MY HEART
TO WATCH YOUR WORLD FALL APART)
F
The colorful hills talked me
G
down from the bridge:
F
To heck with all the drugs my parents did
G
Dm
C
I'd like to meet whoever said the
Dm
words we print in red
C
With a coin in my teeth on
F
the Mexican War Streets
Verse 3
Am
F
Dm
C
Rivers of
G
F
G
F
Am
sadness and mutual need
F
Am
Dm
In the loud desperation of social routine
C
G
The rock of salvation, lightly esteemed
Am
E
And distance surging like ocean
F
Suspended by strings
Am
Over rotating wheels
F
Via magnets and springs
G
Dm
Of Carnegie steel
C
With 'representation' our fashionable
Am
G
theme
Am
Dm
And unfathomably powerful forces
E
Em
F
Like oceans between us
Am
We have all the signs we need
F
Do we decide not to read?
G
Am
"My will: his will that fronts me
Seas between." (-James Joyce)
Dm
And those who precede: the
C
relation between
G
Am
Is listening beside me
At night like some seismic machine
F
While the metal vibrations of
Am
F
petrified men
G
Are etched in translation by
pendulum pens
C
Dm
And the movements of underground plates
G
Am
Do nothing to bridge or exacerbate
Dm
Am
Oceans between us
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