E5 C5 It's a new year G5 In an old house D5 With more technology you'll never understand E5 C5 Break out your typewriter G5 With your thees and thous D5 Smearing old words with your old hands A5 C5 You'll call me Cassandra G5 I'll call you King James D5 And all we write is true. And all of it insane A5 C5 G5 But the changing of the seasons will forever stay the same D5 You say E5 The infantry's retreating C5 Like they knew how this would end G5 Did you hear the Germans lost the war? A5 I bet they could use a friend D5 Right now supper's getting cold C5 Right now God is growing old D5 Right now dialect is evolving C5 Outside this house E5 Or so I'm told It's a real fear For you and me Burning clothing just to keep the winter warm My fingers trace the gumline Of a skeleton key Not caring whether it could open up the door The faces at the window Are children in the womb Black-eyed and still But growing every day You'll die on the outside Or die in this room Either way Our infancy's receding We're a heartbeat from the end Did you hear the madmen lost the war? I bet they could use a friend Right now supper's getting cold Right now God is growing old Right now dialect is evolving Outside this house Or so I'm told A5 C5 We're stockpiling warheads G5 We're stuck in the past D5 Death is art Truth is beauty A5 And the first shall be last C5 G5 You'll call me Athena, I'll call you Monet D5 A5 When the world is falling down crumbling like clay We're hiding in caverns Forgetting our names We dissolve in our mythology Like blood in the rain You'll call me the lion I'll call you the lamb I am lost in all you are You're alive for what I am
