Songbook

Arc of Time

By Bright Eyes

Key of G

[Verse]
        G                     D
You can make a plan, carve it into stone
       C                      G
Like a feather falling, it is still unknown
          G                          D
Until the clock speaks up, says it's time to go
          C                      G
You could choose the high or the lower road

          G                           D
You might clench your fist, you might fork your tongue
       C                       G
As you curse or praise all the things you've done
        G                   D
And the faders move and the music dies
      C                G
As we pass over on the arc of time

[Chorus]
       C                      D
So you nurse your love like a wounded dove
       G               C
In the covered cage of night
      C                     D
Every star is crossed by frenetic thoughts
          G                C
That separate and then collide

         Em                         D
And they twist like sheets till you fall asleep
         G         C
And they finally unwind
       C
It's a black balloon
       D                   G
It's a dream you'll soon deny

[Verse]
          G                     D
I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ
         C                      G
You will get right up from that chalk outline
                G                        D
And then you'll get dolled up and you'll dress in white
       C                      G
All to take your place in his chorus line

[Chorus]
         C                         D
And then in you'll come with those marching drums
     G             C
In a saintly compromise
        C                      D
No more whiskey slurs, no more blonde haired girls
         G             C
For your whole eternal life

           Em                    D
And you'll do the dance that was choreographed
       G            C
At the very dawn of time
          C                D
Singing I told you son the day would come
          G
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
          G
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
          G
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
          G
You would die, you'd die, you'd die

[Chorus]
       Em                  D
To the deepest part of the human heart
    G               C
The fear of death expands
         Em                     D
Until we crack the code we have always known
          G          C
But could never understand
     C                     D
On a circuit board we will soon be born
 G
Again and again and again and again
     G
And again and again and again and again
     G
And again and again and again and again
     G
And again and again and again