F#m       D     F#m
Along the banks of rivers Zion
E             F#m
Sang a fallen and forsworn
    A              F#m  D F#m
The chain of human rage
                   E
And let between an ocean rain
    E               Bm
And lambs so led, I stayed

[Chorus 1]
A                    Bm
If this be life, our evening's prayer
   Bm
Or death's denouement
A                      Bm
A thorned idyll that's offered no one
         Bm
And I've stood for no one
    A       E      Bm
And father, I'm nowhere
       F#m    D       A      F#m D F#m
I'm no closer to your throne

[Verse 2]
F#m      D      F#m
Swirling forth, the sea conscripted
E                  F#m
Each, the dead and nursery rhyme
   A                 F#m   D F#m
At voice, a trailing drone
                    E
And baptized by the breath of pain
  E                         Bm
I crossed heart's knave and swore

[Chorus 2]
A                    Bm
If this be life, our evening's prayer
   Bm
Or death's denouement
A                      Bm
A thorned idyll that's offered no one
         Bm
And I've stood for no one
    A       E      Bm
And father, I'm nowhere
       F#m    D       A
I'm no closer to your throne

[Bridge]
         A     Bm
Swirling forth
A
The dead and nursery rhyme

[Chorus 3]
A                    Bm
If this be life, our evening's prayer
   Bm
Or death's denouement
A                      Bm
A thorned idyll that's offered no one
         Bm
And I've stood for no one
    A       E      Bm
And father, I'm nowhere
       F#m    D       A
I'm no closer to your throne
A                    Bm
Pacific glass, these gifts rend senseless
    Bm
And knell, repentless
A                Bm
The auger of the cosmic traveler
   Bm
As God's own straggler
      A      E   Bm
Who's vowed, unopposed
     F#m  D        A
To embody word and shore