Tabs
Am C G Am
Sit back, no song is written, nothing you thought of yourself.
It's just a ghost that came unbidden to this house.
F Em Am
This infection grows stronger every year,
this seed inside the water of your tear.
C G F Em Am
There is no escaping it.
This seed blooming in the water of your tear
the way an unborn baby's ear unfolds in your belly.
F Em Am
This infection grows stronger every year,
F Em Am
this direction of a tear rolling down your cheek,
C G F Em Am
there is no escaping iiiiiiiiit
C G
There is no escaping
F
the thing that is making its home in your radio.
Am Em F Em G
Am C
Bless this tiny alley we have fallen from tall buildings
Em F G
we have fallen through the air into a garden sweetly smelling of the
softest sleeping flowers now they sit under the sidewalk
now they're waiting for the shining of some future sun to show us
all that brings you beauty and all that gives you pleasure
I could sigh into your hide and say "I hope I'm here forever
but black sheep boy with your lovers with your list of favorite pillows
with your list of missing children with the wall where you drew windows
overlooking hidden gardens cut apart by jagged mountains
climbing up into the air and crumbling down into fountain
where the water waits forever like a quiet distant treasure
when you rise up to recover when you leave this tiny alley
when you meet me in the garden with your horns all hung with cedar
all these spirits brushing past me brushing past them in the ether
screams 'all this is window dressing all you are is flimsy curtains
you will flame up with a word from us and won't know that you're burning.' "
Basically, For The Captain with a couple of lyric changes...