Glass Eel

D G D G D G D G A Bm7 A A7 Bm7 A Bm7 G D G Who was there when pangaea split Bm7 A G Who saw borders break, and continents drift Dsus2 G When shifting rock and heaves of time A G Cleft plates apart, pushed ice to brine D G The trade winds and the westerlies The push and pull of the gyre D Dsus2 G The glass eel chasing estuaries To fjord and fen, the mud and mire G D And as the leaves are doomed to bruise G D And the fruit is bound for falling G D We are all compelled to move G A Our busy skies and racing ocean D DM7 A G A Our strange and heady motion D G Who saw the muddy eddies and the sediment Bm7 A G D And the weathered cliffs forging monuments G To the labyrinths that the rivers filled Bm7 A G The days disrupt and the nights distill G The trade winds and the westerlies G The push and pull of the gyre G The glass eel chasing estuaries G To fjord and fen, the mud and mire G D And as the leaves are doomed to bruise G D And the fruit is bound for falling G D We are all compelled to move G A Our busy skies and racing ocean Bm7 A G Our strange and heady motion G D A We are all compelled to move, side by side DM7 G D A While roaming cliff and waning moon keep time A G A Bm7 For the tiny travelers on ocean currents A G Or the desperate flight from the east A The steady shifting of populations D A G Or the yearly forfeit of the trees G D A We are all compelled to move, side by side G D G While roaming cliff and waning moon keep time G G D G D G G G D G A Bm7 A Bm7 A Bm7 G D G Bm7 Yet here we are in our vice and vanity A G Mindless of the irony D G Bm7 That while patient science adds fact to fact G Hasty man draws lines on maps