Chords with lyrics
Verse:
C majorC DmDm A minorAm
As one child is taught red on his mother's knee
FF
The one true colour
C majorC DmDm
A augmentedA neighbor is taught blue on his mother's knee
A minorAm
The one true colour
FF
With a fervour inherited
C majorC DmDm
It will be subsequently delivered
A minorAm FF
Ignore the spectrum
Chorus:
A minorAm
Dear whom it may concern
FF C majorC
I feel as though I'm about to crash and burn
G+G A minorAm
I think I'm falling and there's no return
FF C majorC G+G
But I've no idea to whom this may concern
G+G A minorAm
I'm looking out at all the stars and I learn
FF C majorC
There's no one up above to hear me yearn
G+G
I'm on my own
Verse:
C majorC DmDm A minorAm
In the arena of the endless unknown
FF
Do not stage theatre
C majorC DmDm
Do not stage theatre and call it truth
A minorAm
And call it truth
FF C majorC
And when one child is taught red on his mother's knee
DmDm
It must be subsequently delivered
A minorAm FF
With all of the spectrum
Chorus:
A minorAm
Dear whom it may concern
FF C majorC
I feel as though I'm about to crash and burn
G+G A minorAm
I think I'm falling and there's no return
FF C majorC G+G
But I've no idea to whom this may concern
G+G A minorAm
I'm looking out at all the stars and I learn
FF C majorC
There's no one up above to hear me yearn
G+G
I'm on my own
Interlude:
A minorAm FF C majorC DmDm
Someone has whipped the carpet from beneath my feet
A minorAm FF
Someone upturned the furniture in my mind
Bridge:
A minorAm FF
But, oh, how rich the soil
C majorC DmDm
How wondrous the upheaval
A minorAm A#A#
It's time to embark
A minorAm FF
But, oh, how rich the soil
C majorC DmDm
How wondrous the upheaval
A minorAm A#A#
It's time to embark
Spoken:
N.C.
(To dissect is to broaden the adventure
And enrich one's tenure
So do not blunt the surgeon's knife)
Bridge:
A minorAm FF
But, oh, how rich the soil
C majorC DmDm
How wondrous the upheaval
A minorAm A#A#
It's time to embark
Spoken:
N.C.
(To dissect is to broaden the adventure
And enrich one's tenure
So do not blunt the surgeon's knife)
Interlude:
A minorAm FF
But, oh, how rich the soil
C majorC DmDm
How wondrous the upheaval
A minorAm A#A#
It's time to embark
Outro:
A minorAm FF
But, oh, how rich the soil
C majorC DmDm
How wondrous the upheaval
A minorAm A#A#
It's time to embark
A minorAm FF
But, oh, how rich the soil
C majorC DmDm
How wondrous the upheaval
A minorAm A#A#
It's time to embark
C majorC DmDm
Oh, there's so much to explore
A minorAm
There's so much to absorb
FF
And then the atoms that you borrowed
C majorC DmDm A minorAm FF
They are returned to the cosmos
C majorC DmDm
There's so much to explore
A minorAm
There's so much to absorb
FF
And then the atoms that you borrowed
C majorC DmDm FF
They are returned when you're...