Intro: D   D7M   D

        E
By the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds
      E                                       D D7M D
And tablets of strange love are shattered and bruised
       E
By the time the oleander is falling from bloom
     E                              D D7M D
And tears of the crocodile water the sun


         C#m              B
  By the time you make up your mind
C#m           A
  If ever you do
C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too
         C#m              B
  By the time you make up your mind
E             F#
  Remember this truth
A             B              C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too

Solo:  
E  B  G  D  A  E  G
 *  * Intro
       E
By the time paradise alley is littered with rust
        E                             D D7M D
And the arc of dayglo is curtained in gloom
       E
By the time kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust
        E                               D D7M D
And the empires and all of the emirates burn


         C#m              B
  By the time you make up your mind
C#m           A
  If ever you do
C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too
         C#m              B
  By the time you make up your mind
E             F#
  Remember this too
A             B              C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too


E  B
      Ice on the mountain
G  D
     Wind and the dust storm
A  E
    Sails in the desert
G  D
    It's old and exploding
E  B
    Seers and the prophets
G  D
    Drums of heaven


A  E                            G        D
     Attention ground control, there's someone coming down, I don't know 
         C#m              B
  By the time you make up your mind
C#m           A
  If ever you do
C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too
         C#m              B
  By the time you make up your mind
E             F#
  Remember this too
A             B              C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too
A             B              C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too
A             B              C#m
  I hear the drums of heaven too

 *  * Intro

 *  * In The Verse, The 
D D7M D 
Sequence.