Arc of Time

[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