North Star Inverted Chords - Circle Takes the Square

CHORDS

{c: Capo 4}

Em Am G D C Gm G#m C#m B F# E Bm

{tab: e|--0----0----2----2----0----3--------------------------------|}

{tab: B|--0----1----2----3----1----3--------------------------------|}

{tab: G|--0----2----0----2----0----3--------------------------------|}

{tab: D|--2----2----0----0----2----6--------------------------------|}

{tab: A|--2----0----0----x----3----x--------------------------------|}

{tab: E|--0----x----3----x----0----x--------------------------------|}

The chords in parentheses are the chord shapes as played without a capo while the ones below them are the actual chord names. Em has a slide up like this occasionally.

{tab: e|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|}

{tab: B|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|}

{tab: G|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|}

{tab: D|-x--2--2-------2--2--2--2--|}

{tab: A|-x--2--2--1/2--2--2--2--2--|}

{tab: E|-0--0--0-------0--0--0--0--|}

Verse 1

Em The future can't sleep, Am It doesn't need to, It dreams standing C up like the statues In G the gardens we'll pass through- D Past the guardians at the gatepost, The Light Em Am C how it gives and it takes. Em Pitch black, the poles lost their Am C grip, Let the axis reverse C Precious balance of mind now disturbed C This world, it slips and Em C Em tears. And if the smoke ever clears,

Chorus 1

G Will the southern skies now host D The Northern Lights? Let's Em make pretend Am D It was all a delusion, Am D It's all in your head. Am D It was all an illusion, Am D Like gold out like gold out of (lead)

Verse 2

Em The present can't see, Am It is blind but has visions Of C pillage and pilgrimage, G The purging of empires D Tyrants, their treasonous Em wars... Am C Then without warning its done. Em A clean slate just feels like a Am dead weight, The burdens of C Em surface stone Scrapes C Em skin from bones,

Chorus 1

G As we crawled across dark parking D Em lots, Felt the forest floor cringe... Am C And let the cities cave in.

Verse 3

Em The past lost its voice, It can't Am speak but was spoken for C By pundit and prophet...

Chorus 1

G Until the dust clouds around us D Em Eroded our embellished belief

Bridge 1

Am C In some fixed history. C Could we recognize D Symbols made of smoke?

Chorus 2

Across the G D canopy, C D That soft-spoken sky, G D Burnt by the torchlight C D As we chart out the ley-line. G D Pray the earth it won't C D break one more time, G D All the voices we heard As C D Em we followed the fault lines.

Verse 4

Em D Devoured, digested, cast out... Em D C Decomposed... 2x

Bridge 2

Em D 4x Em D

Verse 5

C Em Gods arrive C Em C Line of dark chariots Em Starlight dies C Em C I can't bury it yet Em Wheels of fire Em C Swing they so low Em Fade to black Em D Carry us home

Verse 6

Em Polaris slips her tongue Through a Am kiss made out of cinders, C In a marriage of chemicals. G The sky's sulphur heart, carved-out D veins of slate, The pulse of the Em earth- How it Am C sinks and it slows. Em Am An oil corn and wine coated keystone, The archway,

Bridge 3

C two columns (now ash and dust) C Frame this path for us, C Em The undeserved- Brought low and C Em unpreserved Partal Chorus 1 G D From this unhallowed gaze, we profane; The cursed abandon Em the weak,

Bridge 4

Am D To stagger on in a stolen Am D Em display Of confusion, of faith.

Break

Em Am C

Verse 7

Em The North Star, she nods out, Am Doused her torch, left us forever C Without promise or penance. Partal Chorus 1 G We're left to merge with the trench, Taught D Em the cruelties that it takes to survive. (to survive)

Verse 8

Am C Just accept to be free. Em I used to waste my skin, Am Shed my time, change my colors, C Until I settled for peace Partal Chorus 1 G In death, an emerald sea stands D before me Unveiled Em but unbowed

Bridge 5

Am C Each wave's a rainbow of sound. C Could we recognize D Any signal in the noise?

Chorus 2

G D Across that static sea, C D O, crestfallen sky G D Yearn for the currents C D G That carved out the ley-line. D C D Pray the earth it won't break one more time, G D All the voices we heard As we C D followed the fault line. G Gm Em D C D Pray the earth it won't break one more time G D C D All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line. G D C D Pray the earth it won't break one more time G D C D All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line. G D C D Pray the earth it won't break, G D C D All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line. G D C D Pray the earth it won't break, G D C D Em All the voices we heard as we followed the fault line.

Verse 4

Em D Devour, break down and black out... Em D C Decompose... 2x D Em