(Em) (Am) (G)  (D)  (C)  (Gm)     
   G#m  C#m   B    F#   E    Bm
E|--0----0----2----2----0----3--------------------------------|
B|--0----1----2----3----1----3--------------------------------|
G|--0----2----0----2----0----3--------------------------------|
D|--2----2----0----0----2----6--------------------------------|
A|--2----0----0----x----3----x--------------------------------|
E|--0----x----3----x----0----x--------------------------------|
 
The chords in parentheses are the chord shapes as played without a capo while the ones below them are the actual chord names.
 
Em has a slide up like this occasionally.
 
E|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
B|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
G|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
D|-x--2--2-------2--2--2--2--|
A|-x--2--2--1/2--2--2--2--2--|
E|-0--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Em
The future can't sleep,
          Am
It doesn't need to, It dreams standing
 C
up like the statues In
   G
the gardens we'll pass through-
        D
Past the guardians at the gatepost, The Light
Em                    Am        C
           how it gives and it takes.
 
Em
Pitch black, the poles lost their
Am                  C
grip, Let the axis reverse
                    C
Precious balance of mind now disturbed
             C
This world, it slips and
Em               C          Em
tears. And if the smoke ever clears,
 
[Chorus 1]
 
        G
Will the southern skies now host
   D
The Northern Lights? Let's
       Em
make pretend
       Am     D
It was all a delusion,
    Am         D
It's all in your head.
      Am       D
It was all an illusion,
    Am           D
Like gold out like gold
 
out of (lead)
 
[Verse 2]
 
   Em
The present can't see,
     Am
It is blind but has visions Of
C
pillage and pilgrimage,
   G
The purging of empires
D
Tyrants, their treasonous
    Em
wars...
            Am             C
Then without warning its done.
 Em
A clean slate just feels like a
Am
dead weight, The burdens of
C         Em
 surface stone Scrapes
C           Em
 skin from bones,
 
[Chorus 1]
 
     G
As we crawled across dark parking
   D                      Em
lots, Felt the forest floor cringe...
           Am           C
And let the cities cave in.
 
[Verse 3]
   Em
The past lost its voice, It can't
Am
speak but was spoken for
  C
By pundit and prophet...
 
[Chorus 1]
 
         G
Until the dust clouds around us
  D                        Em
Eroded our embellished belief
 
[Bridge 1]
 
       Am          C
In some fixed history.
C
Could we recognize
D
Symbols made of smoke?
 
[Chorus 2]
 
Across the
G      D
canopy,
        C          D
That soft-spoken sky,
G               D
Burnt by the torchlight
     C             D
As we chart out the ley-line.
G            D
  Pray the earth it won't
C               D
break one more time,
G                 D
All the voices we heard As
  C              D    Em
we followed the fault lines.
 
[Verse 4]
 
Em                      D
Devoured, digested, cast out...
 
    Em  D  C
Decomposed...   x2
 
[Bridge 2]
 
Em D x4
 
Em D
 
[Verse 5]
 
C        Em
Gods arrive
C         Em       C
  Line of dark chariots
         Em
Starlight dies
C         Em     C
 I can't bury it yet
           Em
Wheels of fire
Em            C
Swing they so low
       Em
Fade to black
Em      D
Carry us home
 
[Verse 6]
 
Em
Polaris slips her tongue Through a
Am
kiss made out of cinders,
    C
In a marriage of chemicals.
   G
The sky's sulphur heart, carved-out
D
veins of slate, The pulse of the
Em
earth- How it
Am          C
sinks and it slows.
 
  Em                      Am
An oil corn and wine coated keystone, The archway,
 
[Bridge 3]
 
   C
two columns (now ash and dust)
C
   Frame this path for us,
  C      Em
The undeserved- Brought low and
  C      Em
   unpreserved
 
[Partal Chorus 1]
 
         G                      D
From this unhallowed gaze, we profane; The cursed abandon
     Em
the weak,
 
[Bridge 4]
 
          Am      D
To stagger on in a stolen
Am           D          Em
display Of confusion, of faith.
 
[Break]
 
Em Am C
 
[Verse 7]
 
   Em
The North Star, she nods out,
          Am
Doused her torch, left us forever
       C
Without promise or penance.
 
[Partal Chorus 1]
 
             G
We're left to merge with the trench, Taught
    D                           Em
the cruelties that it takes to survive. (to survive)
 
[Verse 8]
 
    Am          C
Just accept to be free.
Em
I used to waste my skin,
       Am
Shed my time, change my colors,
       C
Until I settled for peace
 
[Partal Chorus 1]
 
            G
In death, an emerald sea stands
D
before me Unveiled
   Em
but unbowed
 
[Bridge 5]
             Am         C
Each wave's a rainbow of sound.
 
     C
Could we recognize
   D
Any signal in the noise?
 
[Chorus 2]
 
      G           D
Across that static sea,
    C            D
O, crestfallen sky
G              D
Yearn for the currents
     C             D      G
That carved out the ley-line.
         D             C              D
Pray the earth it won't break one more time,
       G            D
All the voices we heard As we
C            D
followed the fault line.
G   Gm   Em D             C              D
   Pray the earth it won't break one more time
       G          D         C            D
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
G            D             C              D
   Pray the earth it won't break one more time
       G          D         C            D
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
G            D             C              D
   Pray the earth it won't break,
       G          D         C            D
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
G            D             C              D
   Pray the earth it won't break,
       G          D         C            D        Em
All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.
 
[Verse 4]
 
Em                          D
Devour, break down and black out...
     Em  D  C
Decompose...     x2
 
D Em