Mewithoutyou - Winter solstice

^F#mWinter solstice, the earth open ^Ewide with a heart crushed like footsteps in ^F#msnow (((fictitious persons disclaimers im^Eplied to all listening from rooftops be^F#mlow))) it had rained and the air was like ^Eperfume outside as the sky changed ^{A G#m C#m}

^F#mwe began when the ground was still ^Edry planting vineyards where vineyards don’t ^F#mgrow shaping cypress with pitch on both ^Esides for the nights when our trumpets won’t ^F#mblow that regret still there circling like ^Evultures inside as your face changed?^{A G#m C#m} They don’t stay inside. ^E (there but for Thy grace go I...)

^Athrough the eyes of ma^C#mchines we viewed immaculate ^F#mscenes that had ^C#malready passed me by ^Aall the stars on the ^C#mground, Noah’s ark in the ^F#mclouds set ^C#msail in the flood of my mind, ^Athe other animals ^C#mdrowned in blasphemous ^F#mtowns and ^C#masked as they passed me by ^A“was to do as I ^C#mplease a European di^F#msease?”^C#m

^F#mWinter solstice, the earth open ^Ewide with a mouth closed and face carved like ^F#mstone dressed the dawn in the air drawn de^Esigns as the sounds rose in waveforms un^F#mknown and you smile but your vampire com^Eplexion still shows so the past goes.^{A G#m C#m}

^F#mAugust 3rd, all the earth had closed ^Edown, so with breastplates of righteousness ^F#mlow searched for streams in the caves under^Eground where the Baptists and bootleggers ^F#mgo when the sun hits Deer Flat your re^Eflection still shows and your past shows.^{A G#m C#m} It’s really all that ^Eshows (so often unrecognizably so)

^AWe gave up on our ^C#mdreams for those projected on ^F#mscreens that had ^C#malready passed me by ^Awith further suffering ^C#mfound in our insufferable ^F#msounds and the ^C#mthought in the back of my mind: ^A“does my misery ^C#mfeed a metaphysical ^F#mneed that’s ^C#mlong since passed me by, ^Aneither reasoning^C#m why nor offering re^F#mply?” ^C#m