[Verse]
B F#
You can make a plan, carve it into stone
E B
Like a feather falling, it is still unknown
B F#
Until the clock speaks up, says it's time to go
E B
You could choose the high or the lower road
B F#
You might clench your fist, you might fork your tongue
E B
As you curse or praise all the things you've done
B F#
And the faders move and the music dies
E B
As we pass over on the arc of time
[Chorus]
E F#
So you nurse your love like a wounded dove
B E
In the covered cage of night
E F#
Every star is crossed by frenetic thoughts
B E
That separate and then collide
G#m F#
And they twist like sheets till you fall asleep
B E
And they finally unwind
E
It's a black balloon
F# B
It's a dream you'll soon deny
[Verse]
B F#
I hear if you make friends with Jesus Christ
E B
You will get right up from that chalk outline
B F#
And then you'll get dolled up and you'll dress in white
E B
All to take your place in his chorus line
[Chorus]
E F#
And then in you'll come with those marching drums
B E
In a saintly compromise
E F#
No more whiskey slurs, no more blonde haired girls
B E
For your whole eternal life
G#m F#
And you'll do the dance that was choreographed
B E
At the very dawn of time
E F#
Singing I told you son the day would come
B
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
B
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
B
You would die, you'd die, you'd die, you'd die
B
You would die, you'd die, you'd die
[Chorus]
G#m F#
To the deepest part of the human heart
B E
The fear of death expands
G#m F#
Until we crack the code we have always known
B E
But could never understand
E F#
On a circuit board we will soon be born
B
Again and again and again and again
B
And again and again and again and again
B
And again and again and again and again
B
And again and again and again