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A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
I just wrote out the sax line
for The Clot Thickens,
play some power chords if you
want, or feel free to complete it for me.
(Eyewitness)
DmStill wait ing for my
sav-iour, storms tear me limb from limb
Cmy fingers feel like seaweed.
I'm so far out I'm too far
Dmin.
DmI Am a lonely man, my solitude is true,
Cmy eyes have borne stark
witness and now my nights
Dm are numbered, too.
C AmI've seen the smiles on dead
Bmhands,
Emthe stars shine, but they're
C Amnot for me.
DmI prophesy disaster and then I
count the cost...
CI shine but, shining, dying, I
Dmknow that I Am almost lost.
DmOn the table lies blank paper
and my tower is built on stone;
CI only have blunt scissors, I
Dmonly have the bluntest home.
CI've been the witness and the
Am Bmseal of death
Emlingers in the molten wax that
C Amis my head.
DmWhen you see the skeletons
Bbof sailing-ship spars sinking
low
AbYou'll begin to wonder if the
points of all the ancients myths
Gare solemnly directed straight
Dm at you...
DmNo time now for contrition, the
time for that's long past,
Cthe walls are thin as tissue
Dmand if I talk I'll crack the glass.
C AmSo I only think on how it might
Bm have been,
Emlocked in silent monologue, in
C Amsilent scream.
DmI Am much too tired to speak
Bband as the waves crash on the bleak
Abstones of the tower I start to freak
G Dmand find that I Am overcome....
(S.H.M.)
G"Unreal, unreal" ghost
helmsmen scream and fall
in through the sky,
Gnot breaking through my seagull
shrieks - no breaks until I die.
AmThe spectres scratch on
window-slits,
Bmthe hollowed faces and mindless grins
C Am/Bare only intent on destroying
Am Ab G F#what they've lost.
GI crawl the wall till steepness
ends in the vertical fall;
Gmy pain has sailed into the sea
-no joking hopes at dawn.
AmWhite bone shine in the
iron-jaw mask,
Bmlost mastheads pierce the
freezing dark
C Am/Band parallel my isolated
Amtower...
G F Emno paraffin for the flame,
Dm C Bm Amno harbour left to gain.
(Presence of the night / Kosmos tours)
Am
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what you want)
Am [B G]'Alone, alone' the ghosts all
Fmaj7 [E F A]call,
Am [B G]pinpoint me in the light.
Fmaj7 [E F A]
Am [B G] Fmaj7 [EThe only life I feel at all
F A]
Am [B G]is the presence of the
Fmaj7 [E F A]night.
Am [B G] Fmaj7 [E F A]repeated
[E F G] Am
[E F G] Am
N.C.
Would you cry if I died?
G Em Dm Em Dm
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G Em Dm Em DmWould you catch the final words
of mine?
G Em Dm Em DmWould you catch my words?
Am Am Em Am EmI know that there's no time,
Am Am Em Am EmI know that there's no rhyme,
false signs find me.
(You don't have to play it
Am Em/B Am/C
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this way, I just thought it would be fun.)
Em/D Am/E Em/F
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Am Em Am
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Am Em AmI don't want to hate, I just
Emwant to grow;
Am Em Amwhy can't I let me live and be free?
Em Am...but I die very slowly alone.
Am Em Am EmI know no more ways, I Am so
afraid,
Am Em Ammyself won't let me just be myself
Em Amand so I Am completely alone.
AmThe maelstrom of my memory
Bmis a vampire and it feeds on
me;
C C/Bnow, staggering madly, over the
Am brink I fall.
((Custard's) Last stand)
C# F# F
C# F# FLighthouses might house the key
Bb C Bb
C# F# F Cbut can I reach the door?
C# Eb
Bb Bbdim
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C# F# F BbI want to walk on the sea
C Bb
C# F# Fso that I may better find a
C C# Ebshore;
Bb Bbdim Abut how can I ever keep my feet
F dry?
E7 A A A G FI scan the horizon,
E7 A A A G F DmI must keep my eyes on all
Am/C Bmparts of me.
C# F# F BbLooking back on the years
C Bb
C# F# Fit seems that I have lost my
C C# Ebway:
Bb BbdimLike a dog in the night I have
Arun to a manger,
F Enow I Am the stranger I stay
in.
C# D# E Ah, well.
C# F# FAll of the grief I have seen
Bb C Bb
C# F#leaves me chasing solitary
F C C# Ebpeace;
Bb Bbdim ABut I hold experience in my
Fhead.
E7 A A A G FI'm too close to the light,.
E7 A A A G FI don't think I see right,
Dm Am/C Bmfor I blind me.
(The clot thickens)
C B CWhere is the God that guides my
G hand?
C B CHow can the hands of others
Freach me?
C B CWhen will I find what I grope
Gfor?
C B C FWho is going to teach me?
C Bb CI Am me / me are we / we can't
Bbsee
C Bb Bany way out of here.
C BbCrashing sea, a trophied
Chistory:
Bb C Bchance has lost my Guinevere...
A A A B A G# B A G# B A Eb
C C B C G - C C B C F - C C B C
G - C C B C F
C Bb C Bb C Bb B
C Bb C Bb C Bb B
A A A B A G# B A G# B A Eb
I don't want to be one wave in
the water
but sea will drag me deep:
one more haggard drowned man.
I can see the lemmings coming,
but I know I'm just a man.
Do I join or Do I founder?
Which can is the best I may?
(Land's end (Sineline) / We Go now)
Eb Bb Gb Absus
Eb BbOceans drifting sideways, I am
Gb Abpulled into the spell,
[Ab Bb] Bb [Bb C] CI feel you around me,
Ab7/C Bb7 EbI know you well.
BbStars slice horizons where the
Gb Ablines stand much too stark;
[Ab Bb] Bb [Bb C] CI feel I Am drowning -
Ab7/C Bb7 Ebhands stretch in the dark.
Bb Gb Ab [Ab Bb] Bb
[Bb C] C
C Bb7/D C7 F
F CCamps of panoply and majesty,
Eb Bbwhat is Freedom of Choice?
[Bb C] C Where Do I stand in
[C D] D Bb7/D C7the pageantry, whose is
Fmy voice?
CIt doesn't feel so very bad
Ebnow, I think the end is the
Bbstart,
[Bb C] C [C D] D begin to feel very glad
Bb7/D C7 Fnow: All things are a part
Bb7/D C7 FAll things are apart
Bb7/D C7 FAll things are a part.
Eyewitness played on the piano like this:
Dm:
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