Lotus Eaters Ukulele chords by Jessica Law

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Verse 1:
   D                              A
We stopped to take on water on a long laconic shore
  G                         F#
Broken and defeated by the searing scars of war
      D                             A
When through the dusty darkness we glimpsed a glowing flame
     G                             F#               F#
And soon the mild-eyed melancholy Lotus Eaters came

And they said:

Pre-Chorus:
  D                 G
"Why the struggle? Watch the trees
 D                                     G                   A
They don't have to toil to drop their fruit or shed their leaves
D                    G
What's to fight for? All will fall
D                                  G                        A
Mountains will crumble, time will claim the strongest city walls
       A
After all...

Chorus:
 D                           G
You're with the Lotus Eaters now
           D             G
No need to worry how the world spins round
    G                 A               D
No need to keep your head out of the clouds
D                              G
Why cling to hope of homeward bound?
                   D                 G
'Cause here we've all you need, the Lotus leaves
      G             A                 D
Will send you on a slumber sweet and sound
          A
So stick around..."

Verse 2:
D                      A
Stop! Wake up! You're dead behind the eyes
    G                                      F#
We haven't reached our home and there are battles still to fight
      D                                   A
What happened to the spark that fear and fury would ignite?
      G                             F#
I've lost you to the Lotus and its languid little lies

Verse 3:
D                      A
Stop! Wake up! You're dead behind the eyes
    G                                      F#
We haven't reached our home and there are battles still to fight
      D                                   A
What happened to the spark that fear and fury would ignite?
      G                             F#
I've lost you to the Lotus and its languid little lies

Verse 4:
 D                 G
"Let us stay here! What will last?
D                               G                         A
Nothing but fractured fragments of the dark and dreadful past
D                    G
What's to fight for? All will fall."
            D                            G                        A
Well, I say better to make a stand than stranded with no hope at all
         A
As they call...

Chorus:
 D                           G
You're with the Lotus Eaters now
           D             G
No need to worry how the world spins round
    G                 A               D
No need to keep your head out of the clouds
D                              G
Why cling to hope of homeward bound?
                   D                 G
'Cause here we've all you need, the Lotus leaves
      G             A                 D
Will send you on a slumber sweet and sound
          A
So stick around..."

Chorus:
 D                           G
You're with the Lotus Eaters now
           D             G
No need to worry how the world spins round
    G                 A               D
No need to keep your head out of the clouds
D                              G
Why cling to hope of homeward bound?
                   D                 G
'Cause here we've all you need, the Lotus leaves
      G             A                 D
Will send you on a slumber sweet and sound
          A
So stick around..."

Bridge:
D                  G
World forgive me, I'm so tired
D                             G                 A
I searched inside me but the spark of fury had expired
         A
It transpired...

Outro:
D                         G
I'm with the Lotus Eaters now
           D                 G
No need to worry now, though I'm not proud
     G               A                   D
Let others make the world keep spinning round
D                        G
Forget the life you left behind
           D               G
Before the Lotus drives it from my mind
      G                     A            D
I'll leave these words for followers to find
            A
Don't get entwined
                  D
You'll lose your mind...