Mewithoutyou - Winter solstice

^AmWinter solstice, the earth open^G wide with a heart crushed like footsteps in ^Amsnow (((fictitious persons disclaimers im^Gplied to all listening from rooftops be^Amlow))) it had rained and the air was like ^Gperfume outside as the sky changed ^{C G6 Em}

^Amwe began when the ground was still^G dry planting vineyards where vineyards don’t ^Amgrow shaping cypress with pitch on both ^Gsides for the nights when our trumpets won’t ^Amblow that regret still there circling like ^Gvultures inside as your face changed?^{C G6 Em}

They don’t stay inside. ^G (there but for Thy grace go I...)

^Cthrough the eyes of ma^G6chines we viewed immaculate ^Amscenes that had ^Emalready passed me by ^Call the stars on the ^G6ground, Noah’s ark in the^Am clouds set ^Emsail in the flood of my mind, ^Cthe other animals ^G6drowned in blasphemous ^Amtowns and ^Emasked as they passed me by ^C“was to do as I ^G6please a European dis^Amease?” ^Em

^AmWinter solstice, the earth had ^Gclosed down So with breastplates of righteousness^Am low Searched for streams in the caves unde^Grground Where the Baptists and bootlegger^Ams go And you smile but your vampire compl^Gexion still shows And your past shows^{C G6 Em}

It’s really all that ^Gshows (so often unrecognizably so)

^CThrough the eyes of mac^G6hines immaculate scen^Ames That had al^Emready passed me by ^CAll the stars on the gr^G6ound, Noah’s ark in the cl^Amouds But the th^Emought in the back of my mind: ^C“does my misery fe^G6ed a metaphysical ne^Amed That’s l^Emong since passed me by ^CNeither reasoning ^G6why Nor offering r^Ameply?”^{Em G}

^Em(Neither reasoning^G6 why ^Em Nor offering rep^G6ly) ^Em

^CDear my newlywed^G6 wife You’re not the love of my^Am life It had ^Emalready passed me by--- ^CFinally grasping the^G6 line Casting pearls before^Am swine?