Parts III - VI Transcribed by Cory
(Eyewitness)
Dm
Still wait ing for my sav-iour, storms tear me limb from limb
C Dm
my fingers feel like seaweed. I'm so far out I'm too far in.
Dm
I am a lonely man, my solitude is true,
C Dm
my eyes have borne stark witness and now my nights are numbered, too.
C Am Bm
I've seen the smiles on dead hands,
Em C Am
the stars shine, but they're not for me.
Dm
I prophesy disaster and then I count the cost...
C Dm
I shine but, shining, dying, I know that I am almost lost.
Dm
On the table lies blank paper and my tower is built on stone;
C Dm
I only have blunt scissors, I only have the bluntest home.
C Am Bm
I've been the witness and the seal of death
Em C Am
lingers in the molten wax that is my head.
Dm
When you see the skeletons
Bb
of sailing-ship spars sinking low
Ab
You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths
G Dm
are solemnly directed straight at you...
Dm
No time now for contrition, the time for that's long past,
C Dm
the walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass.
C Am Bm
So I only think on how it might have been,
Em C Am
locked in silent monologue, in silent scream.
Dm
I am much too tired to speak
Bb
and as the waves crash on the bleak
Ab
stones of the tower I start to freak
G Dm
and find that I am overcome....
(S.H.M.)
G
"Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky,
G
not breaking through my seagull shrieks - no breaks until I die.
Am
The spectres scratch on window-slits,
Bm
the hollowed faces and mindless grins
C Am/B Am Ab G F#
are only intent on destroying what they've lost.
G
I crawl the wall till steepness ends in the vertical fall;
G
my pain has sailed into the sea -no joking hopes at dawn.
Am
White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask,
Bm
lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
C Am/B Am
and parallel my isolated tower...
G F Em
no paraffin for the flame,
Dm C Bm Am
no harbour left to gain.
(Presence of the night / Kosmos tours)
Am F7M (or Am/F or Am6 call it what you want)
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Am [ B G ] F7M [ E F A ]
'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call,
Am [ B G ] F7M [ E F A ]
pinpoint me in the light.
Am [ B G ] F7M [ E F A ]
The only life I feel at all
Am [ B G ] F7M [ E F A ]
is the presence of the night.
Am [ B G ] F7M [ E F A ] repeated
[ E F G ] Am
[ E F G ] Am
n.C.
Would you cry if I died?
G Em Dm Em Dm Am Am Em Am Em
-------6-5----6-5--- | ------8---7-----8--7-- |
-------8-6----8-6--- | ------10--8-----10-8-- |
-------7-7----7-7--- | ------(b9)--(b9)----(b9)-(b9)- |
--5----------------- | ---------------------- |
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G Em Dm Em Dm
Would you catch the final words of mine?
G Em Dm Em Dm
Would you catch my words?
Am Am Em Am Em
I know that there's no time,
Am Am Em Am Em
I know that there's no rhyme,
false signs find me.
(You don't have to play it this way, I just thought it would be fun.)
Am Em/B Am/C Em/D Am/E Em/F
----8---------7---------8--------7----------8--------7------ |
------10--------8---------10-------8----------10-------8---- |
------------------(b9)-----------------(b9)------------------(b9)- |
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--0---------------------------------------7--------8-------- |
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Am Em Am
--8-----8-------7-----7------5-- |
----10----10------8-----8----5-- |
-------(b9)----8------(b9)----(b9)-5-- |
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--0-----0--------------------0-- |
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Am Em Am Em
I don't want to hate, I just want to grow;
Am Em Am
why can't I let me live and be free?
Em Am
...but I die very slowly alone.
Am Em Am Em
I know no more ways, I am so afraid,
Am Em Am
myself won't let me just be myself
Em Am
and so I am completely alone.
Am
The maelstrom of my memory
Bm
is a vampire and it feeds on me;
C C/B Am
now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall.
((Custard's) Last stand)
C# F# F
C# F# F Bb C Bb
Lighthouses might house the key
C# F# F C C# Eb
but can I reach the door?
Bb Bb? A D? C7
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----------6----------------5----------------5--------6--5-- |
--------7---7------------6---6------------6---6------4--3-- |
------8-------8--------5-------5--------7-------7----6--5-- |
----8-----------8----7-----------7----7-----------7--5--3-- |
--6----------------6----------------5---------------------- |
C# F# F Bb C Bb
I want to walk on the sea
C# F# F C C# Eb
so that I may better find a shore;
Bb Bb? A F
but how can I ever keep my feet dry?
E7 A A A G F
I scan the horizon,
E7 A A A G F Dm Am/C Bm
I must keep my eyes on all parts of me.
C# F# F Bb C Bb
Looking back on the years
C# F# F C C# Eb
it seems that I have lost my way:
Bb Bb? A
Like a dog in the night I have run to a manger,
F E
now I am the stranger I stay in.
C# Eb E
Ah, well.
C# F# F Bb C Bb
All of the grief I have seen
C# F# F C C# Eb
leaves me chasing solitary peace;
Bb Bb? A F
But I hold experience in my head.
E7 A A A G F
I'm too close to the light,.
E7 A A A G F
I don't think I see right,
Dm Am/C Bm
for I blind me.
(The clot thickens)
C B C G
Where is the God that guides my hand?
C B C F
How can the hands of others reach me?
C B C G
When will I find what I grope for?
C B C F
Who is going to teach me?
C Bb C Bb
I am me / me are we / we can't see
C Bb B
any way out of here.
C Bb C
Crashing sea, a trophied history:
Bb C B
chance has lost my Guinevere...
A A A B A Ab B A Ab B A Eb
C C B C G - C C B C F - C C B C G - C C B C F
C Bb C Bb C Bb B
C Bb C Bb C Bb B
A A A B A Ab B A Ab B A Eb
I don't want to be one wave in the water
but sea will drag me deep:
one more haggard drowned man.
I can see the lemmings coming, but I know I'm just a man.
Do I join or do I founder? Which can is the best I may?
(Land's end (Sineline) / We go now)
Eb Bb F# Absus
Eb Bb F# Ab
Oceans drifting sideways, I am pulled into the spell,
[ Ab Bb ] Bb [ Bb C ] C Ab7/C Bb7 Eb
I feel you around me, I know you well.
Bb F# Ab
Stars slice horizons where the lines stand much too stark;
[ Ab Bb ] Bb [ Bb C ] C Ab7/C Bb7 Eb
I feel I am drowning - hands stretch in the dark.
Bb F# Ab [ Ab Bb ] Bb [ Bb C ] C
C Bb7/D C7 F
F C Eb Bb
Camps of panoply and majesty, what is Freedom of Choice?
[ Bb C ] C [ C D ] D Bb7/D C7 F
Where do I stand in the pageantry, whose is my voice?
C Eb Bb
It doesn't feel so very bad now, I think the end is the start,
[ Bb C ] C [ C D ] D Bb7/D C7 F
begin to feel very glad now: All things are a part
Bb7/D C7 F
All things are apart
Bb7/D C7 F
All things are a part.
