Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E) C#m D A C#m E A C#m There's a world we knew as we D Before, before A A story entered C#m D A tiny key we turned A West of words
C#m Now we're falling through the ground D And falling slow A The house is tumbling down Still, we know, we know C#m D All that yearns A West of words, west of words G# A rose remembered draws us onward A/D A world adjourned A West of words C#m D A C#m There's a hatter holding tea D On a madder lawn A A waltz of children C#m D With tall and talking birds A West of words C#m There's a golden silver song D In the afternoon A A caterpillar poof He's calling you C#m D Pages turn A West of words, west of words G# The lonely tortoise Crawling onward A/D A moon that burns A West of words C#m D And something whispers of something gone A A little Cheshire purr C#m D West of words A West of words