[Verse]
D G D G
Ravens have flown from tower and parapet
D G D G
My mother below, shouting out epithets
F#m G
I would risk a branch's snap
F#m G
And I would leap the widest gap
F#m A Bm G
Just to see the world laid out like a map
Em A Bm
I didn't know a thing until I fell
Em A Bm A G
Far enough to see their seven hells
[Chorus]
Bm A
And if I didn't die
Bm F#m G A D
I surely set the clock to ticking
G Bm
Summer child, who couldn't know
Bm F#m G
What song they all were singing
[Verse]
D G D G
Stories they told, where the names were songs
D G D G
But different down south, they get the words all wrong
F#m G
I could look deeper still
F#m G
Wonder why blood was spilled
F#m A Bm G
All along was I meant to build?
Em A Bm
In my dreams, I saw it all
Em A Bm A G
Scrawled across a cannonball
[Chorus]
Bm A
And if I didn't die
Bm F#m G A D
I surely set the clock to ticking
G Bm
Summer child, who couldn't know
Bm F#m G
What song they all were singing
[Bridge]
F#m G A Bm
Is this falling, is this flight?
F#m G A C
Must it be from a great height?
D A
Will we sing that sweet reprise
D G
Will I see through different eyes
F#m G Bm A G
Oh will I grow old and wise?
[Instrumental]
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
[Bridge 2]
Bm G D A
Is it true that summer's over?
Bm G D A
I thought this would go much slower
Bm G D A
Can't you feel the weirwoods weeping?
Bm G D A
Where the past was always sleeping
[Solo]
Bm A D G (x8)
[Chorus 2]
G D
Sometimes you'll dream of home
G Bm A
And you'll look to all of your idols
G D
But we all are grey
G Bm A
We can do great good or great evil
G D
And all of those you've loved
G Bm A
In the dust, they will be waiting
G D
To teach you where to go
G Bm A
When the future's accelerating
[Bridge]
F#m G A Bm
What will chase the cold away?
F#m G A C
Is it games that rich men play?
D A
Will we sing that sweet reprise
D G
Will I see it for the trees?
F#m G Bm A G
Strength lies in the darkest roots
Em A Bm
And not every story is true
Em A D
Not every story is true
[Outro]
Gm D Gm
Bm F#m G
G D G Bm A