The Great Elsewhere

Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# Talking, what's it good for? B/D# G#m7 Absolutely nothing Emaj7 F# Wrestle, let's wrestle B/D# G#m7 You can pin me to anything Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m Emaj7 F# Thought I saw you in my tea leaves B/D# G#m7 Thought I saw you in a forest flame Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 I'll fill up the silence with the sound of your holy name Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# Knowledge of the sea-ways, knowledge of how the water flows B/D# G#m7 Whoever coined the phrase has never had to brave the snow Emaj7 F# I climbed the shroud to the top-sail and I peeked through the glass B/D# G#m7 The curvature bisected by a wintry mizzen mast Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# The scar upon my stomach, I call it my Flying V B/D# G#m7 And every time I show it, I can feel your eyes on me Emaj7 F# How many islands will surrender to the blunderbuss? B/D# G#m7 And how long must we sail before you show your face to us? Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m7 Emaj7 Followed him out to the end of the pier F# "Don't come any closer," he cried, B/D# "I am afraid of the man I'll become if I lay my G#m7 Life down for a people who I don't even care for." Emaj7 Face to his face, I put my F# Hand into his and I tried to tell him, B/D# "No I've seen his work upon the panes of cathedrals G#m7 In the sweat of the workers and the flight of the seagulls." Emaj7 My words were drowned out by the sound F# B/D# Of the motors and rowers, the ship as it ran aground B/D# And from the trees came a thousand soldiers G#m7 I went down on my knees with a spear in my shoulder Emaj7 About face, about face, I swam back F# To the Victoria. I shiver with the B/D# Memory, memory of the island dwellers G#m7 And the indifferences of the Storyteller Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m Emaj7 F# B/D# G#m D#m F# B D#m F# C#/F D#m F# B D#m/F# F# E B B B