Legend

Em G D Em I heard the song birds singing in the trees above my bed C B/C Am G F#/G Em In the valley of the shadow of the sea of living dead Em G D I see the same old smells aboard my ship of shapelessness Em Meandering suspended in amorphous tastelessness Em G D Em I hear the happy people striking down their matchless road C B/C Am G F#/G Em The false teeth and the cologne partly sharing half the load Em G D I know I cannot ask them so I leave their eyes to say Em I know the way to Mount Street, but I just don't know the way Em G D Em I see the hollow buildings hanging in the winter sun C B/C Am G F#/G Em Throwing empty shadows that hide the hollow men Em G D The world just isn't real it's built on endless timeless time Em On land marks in the desert wastes of multicoloured crime Em G D Em The maps stuck in the tube trains will tell you where're you going C B/C Am G F#/G Em They'll also tell you pratically everything worth knowing Em G D So if anybody asks me I'd say "take a few salt sodas" Em If you don't you stand the dirty chance of dying stone cold sober Em G D Em And as I hear you breathing life's last distant compliment C B/C Am G F#/G Em I know I can't have said much of what I really meant Em G D The sky dissolves the sky and the snowflakes face to face Em And everything is just everything because everything just is