F#5
Reading about Buddhism
                   Ab5
And listening to Xasthur
          A5
On the subway
              B5
in New York City
          C#m         A
Back when you were my home
         F#m
Not that long ago

[Section 1]

A
This (This churning)
Abm
Life (Of avalanches) Upends me
 C#m7
Again and again (It spins)
A    Abm
Each night (Each day plummets into night)
                   C#m
Now my mind in the dark
                      B
Brings it all roaring back


[Section 2]
                   A
That you could not bear
                     Abm
(Can I bear the un-) me (-certainty)

That arrives on the wind that came
C#m
In through the door?
               A
That I can not hold
          Abm
(Holding) you (in my mind)
      C#m.         B
Our devotions mismatched

(Waking up surprised

With no one around
              C#m  A
And wondering whooooo?)


[Section 3]
              F#m
We could have bridged the gap
       C#m         A
But it yawned and swallowed
     F#m
This world of ours
       B
That's now yours and mine

(That's now mine and yours)


[Section 4]
A                Abm
(This) This life bulldozed (life)
                   C#m
By ridiculous sensitivities (Clinging to rocks in wind)

Seeing your face everywhere
                                   A
And there's no escape (Seeing this lost chance)
                           Abm
Except what if we could go further in?
              C#m
We were each others' reward
      B          A     Abm
For enduring the waves


[Section 5]
               C#m
("The wages of dying is love")
          B
(Like the poem says)
             A     Abm
As long as the one last
       C#m
Leap into the dark
        B
Is wholehearted
          A
It almost was