This is how I play the song. I've simplified my tab into the most important chords to make it easier to
play and sing along.
Suggestions and corrections welcome.
[Verse 1]
D G D
G D
Oh we are nothing: but what our words leave behind are worth the raiment of the sun
G D
Sighed Palinurus, humming "Bird on a Wire", eyeing the cloth of the sun
G D
Thus we are nothing but what our words leave behind.
G D
Thus collect your poetries and incantations and bullets for the blind
G D
I haven't read them, I will not read them, for they dwell too much on signs
Bm
Thus the desert deserts thee, ah:
[Chorus]
Bm
I left this bullwhip by the nightstand
F# Bm D F# Bm
Julliard was a thousand miles ago
Bm
Where you gonna run when the clouds break?
F# Bm D F#
When the sun peaks his eye with attitude and rye,
A Bm
and you're set upon and lost
A Bm
lost feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
E Bm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks, rocks...
E Bm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
[Verse 2]
G D
G D
Hex signifiers, Iambic petra-fiers, and Roman Shit that we have left behind
G D
I'm gonna plumb the white pages, rocking the pain of ages, looking at your graceless depictions of light
G D
Though when there is there is nothing left to read, there shall be nothing left to write
D C#m Bm A G
That's when I get on board and drop
[Chorus]
F# Bm Bm
I left this bullwhip by the nightstand
F# Bm D F# A Bm
Julliard you were a thousand miles ago, and your setter drops
A Bm
Oh ya feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
E Bm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks, rocks...
E Bm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
[Bridge]
F# G C#m G A C#m
Ah da da da, yada da da dum, da dah oh
Bm
All they own they see! Oh oh oh oh
F# G C#m G A C#m
Yah da da da, yada da da dum, da dah
Bm
All they own they see! Oh oh oh oh
[Outro]
Bm D F# E
A G Bm D F# E
Oh the rain's got to fall
A G Bm D F# E
Oh the rain's got to fall
A G Bm D F# E
Oh the rain's got to fall
A G Bm D F# E
Oh the rain's got to fall
A G A G A G Bm
Oh the rain's got to fall