Parts III - VI Transcribed by Cory
(Eyewitness)
D5
Still wait ing for my sav-iour, storms tear me limb from limb
C5 D5
my fingers feel like seaweed. I'm so far out I'm too far in.
D5
I am a lonely man, my solitude is true,
C5 D5
my eyes have borne stark witness and now my nights are numbered, too.
C5 A5 B5
I've seen the smiles on dead hands,
E5 C5 A5
the stars shine, but they're not for me.
D5
I prophesy disaster and then I count the cost...
C5 D5
I shine but, shining, dying, I know that I am almost lost.
D5
On the table lies blank paper and my tower is built on stone;
C5 D5
I only have blunt scissors, I only have the bluntest home.
C5 A5 B5
I've been the witness and the seal of death
E5 C5 A5
lingers in the molten wax that is my head.
D5
When you see the skeletons
Bb5
of sailing-ship spars sinking low
Ab5
You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths
G5 D5
are solemnly directed straight at you...
D5
No time now for contrition, the time for that's long past,
C5 D5
the walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass.
C5 A5 B5
So I only think on how it might have been,
E5 C5 A5
locked in silent monologue, in silent scream.
D5
I am much too tired to speak
Bb5
and as the waves crash on the bleak
Ab5
stones of the tower I start to freak
G5 D5
and find that I am overcome....
(S.H.M.)
G5
"Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky,
G5
not breaking through my seagull shrieks - no breaks until I die.
A5
The spectres scratch on window-slits,
B5
the hollowed faces and mindless grins
C5 A5 A5 Ab5 G5 F#5
are only intent on destroying what they've lost.
G5
I crawl the wall till steepness ends in the vertical fall;
G5
my pain has sailed into the sea -no joking hopes at dawn.
A5
White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask,
B5
lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
C5 A5 A5
and parallel my isolated tower...
G5 F5 E5
no paraffin for the flame,
D5 C5 B5 A5
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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-0-----------------2----------------0-- |
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A5 [ B5 G5 ] F5 [ E5 F5 A5 ]
'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call,
A5 [ B5 G5 ] F5 [ E5 F5 A5 ]
pinpoint me in the light.
A5 [ B5 G5 ] F5 [ E5 F5 A5 ]
The only life I feel at all
A5 [ B5 G5 ] F5 [ E5 F5 A5 ]
is the presence of the night.
A5 [ B5 G5 ] F5 [ E5 F5 A5 ] repeated
[ E5 F5 G5 ] A5
[ E5 F5 G5 ] A5
n.C.
Would you cry if I died?
G5 E5 D5 E5 D5 A5 A5 E5 A5 E5
-------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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G5 E5 D5 E5 D5
Would you catch the final words of mine?
G5 E5 D5 E5 D5
Would you catch my words?
A5 A5 E5 A5 E5
I know that there's no time,
A5 A5 E5 A5 E5
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.)
A5 E5 A5 E5 A5 E5
----8---------7---------8--------7----------8--------7------ |
------10--------8---------10-------8----------10-------8---- |
------------------(b9)-----------------(b9)------------------(b9)- |
-------------------------------0---------------------------- |
--0---------------------------------------7--------8-------- |
------------7---------8------------------------------------- |
A5 E5 A5
--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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A5 E5 A5 E5
I don't want to hate, I just want to grow;
A5 E5 A5
why can't I let me live and be free?
E5 A5
...but I die very slowly alone.
A5 E5 A5 E5
I know no more ways, I am so afraid,
A5 E5 A5
myself won't let me just be myself
E5 A5
and so I am completely alone.
A5
The maelstrom of my memory
B5
is a vampire and it feeds on me;
C5 C5 A5
now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall.
((Custard's) Last stand)
C#5 F#5 F5
C#5 F#5 F5 Bb5 C5 Bb5
Lighthouses might house the key
C#5 F#5 F5 C5 C#5 Eb5
but can I reach the door?
Bb5 Bb5 A5 D5 C5
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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#5 F#5 F5 Bb5 C5 Bb5
I want to walk on the sea
C#5 F#5 F5 C5 C#5 Eb5
so that I may better find a shore;
Bb5 Bb5 A5 F5
but how can I ever keep my feet dry?
E5 A5 A5 A5 G5 F5
I scan the horizon,
E5 A5 A5 A5 G5 F5 D5 A5 B5
I must keep my eyes on all parts of me.
C#5 F#5 F5 Bb5 C5 Bb5
Looking back on the years
C#5 F#5 F5 C5 C#5 Eb5
it seems that I have lost my way:
Bb5 Bb5 A5
Like a dog in the night I have run to a manger,
F5 E5
now I am the stranger I stay in.
C#5 Eb5 E5
Ah, well.
C#5 F#5 F5 Bb5 C5 Bb5
All of the grief I have seen
C#5 F#5 F5 C5 C#5 Eb5
leaves me chasing solitary peace;
Bb5 Bb5 A5 F5
But I hold experience in my head.
E5 A5 A5 A5 G5 F5
I'm too close to the light,.
E5 A5 A5 A5 G5 F5
I don't think I see right,
D5 A5 B5
for I blind me.
(The clot thickens)
C5 B5 C5 G5
Where is the God that guides my hand?
C5 B5 C5 F5
How can the hands of others reach me?
C5 B5 C5 G5
When will I find what I grope for?
C5 B5 C5 F5
Who is going to teach me?
C5 Bb5 C5 Bb5
I am me / me are we / we can't see
C5 Bb5 B5
any way out of here.
C5 Bb5 C5
Crashing sea, a trophied history:
Bb5 C5 B5
chance has lost my Guinevere...
A5 A5 A5 B5 A5 Ab5 B5 A5 Ab5 B5 A5 Eb5
C5 C5 B5 C5 G5 - C5 C5 B5 C5 F5 - C5 C5 B5 C5 G5 - C5 C5 B5 C5 F5
C5 Bb5 C5 Bb5 C5 Bb5 B5
C5 Bb5 C5 Bb5 C5 Bb5 B5
A5 A5 A5 B5 A5 Ab5 B5 A5 Ab5 B5 A5 Eb5
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)
Eb5 Bb5 F#5 Absus
Eb5 Bb5 F#5 Ab5
Oceans drifting sideways, I am pulled into the spell,
[ Ab5 Bb5 ] Bb5 [ Bb5 C5 ] C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
I feel you around me, I know you well.
Bb5 F#5 Ab5
Stars slice horizons where the lines stand much too stark;
[ Ab5 Bb5 ] Bb5 [ Bb5 C5 ] C5 Ab5 Bb5 Eb5
I feel I am drowning - hands stretch in the dark.
Bb5 F#5 Ab5 [ Ab5 Bb5 ] Bb5 [ Bb5 C5 ] C5
C5 Bb5 C5 F5
F5 C5 Eb5 Bb5
Camps of panoply and majesty, what is Freedom of Choice?
[ Bb5 C5 ] C5 [ C5 D5 ] D5 Bb5 C5 F5
Where do I stand in the pageantry, whose is my voice?
C5 Eb5 Bb5
It doesn't feel so very bad now, I think the end is the start,
[ Bb5 C5 ] C5 [ C5 D5 ] D5 Bb5 C5 F5
begin to feel very glad now: All things are a part
Bb5 C5 F5
All things are apart
Bb5 C5 F5
All things are a part.
