Chords with lyrics
Tuning: EADGBE
Verse 1:
D MajorD F# minorF#m
Orphans of the storm, watch them sail between the waves
D MajorD F# minorF#m
Orphans of the storm, say a prayer and wish the rain away
B minorBm Bb majorBb
Mother's milk and angel hair, holy books and bones
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
The sirens on the shore calling them home
D MajorD F# minorF#m
Breakfast on the lawn in the sweet September sway
D MajorD F# minorF#m
Helpless and forlorn since the pills and powders passed their way
Pre-Chorus:
B minorBm Bb majorBb
Lost themselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
While the needle and the thread stitches them whole
Chorus:
B minorBm Bb majorBb
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
D MajorD BB
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
E minorEm Bb majorBb
No prescription for the pain only a sky of blue and grey
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
No one to save them, sailing their sinking ships up and away
Instrumental with whistling:
D MajorD
F# minorF#m
D MajorD
F# minorF#m
Pre-Chorus:
B minorBm Bb majorBb
We lost ourselves, forever seeking, searching pole to pole
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
While the needle and the thread stitches us whole again
Chorus:
B minorBm Bb majorBb
Empty shells, only the shallow know themselves
D MajorD BB
Deeper and deeper, day by day, to keep the weary world at bay
E minorEm Bb majorBb
Raise your mast and fly away into a sky of blue and grey
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
No one to save us, sailing our sinking ships up and away
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD
Sailing our sinking ships up and away
D MajorD C majorC D MajorD