I Believe in Symmetry

G Am Some plans were made and rice was thrown C D A house was built, a baby born C D How time can move both fast and slow G Amazes me

G Am And so I raise my glass to symmetry C D To the second hand and its accuracy C D To the actual size of everything G The desert is the sand

Em You can't hold it in your hand C It won't bow to your demands Am There's no difference you can make D There's no difference you can make

Em And if it seems like an accident C A collage of senselessness Am You aren't looking hard enough D I wasn't looking hard enough

C At it

G Am An argument for consciousness C D The instinct of the blind insect C D Who makes love to the flower bed G And dies in the first freeze

G Am Oh I want to learn such simple things C D No politics, no history C D Till what I want and what I need G Can finally be the same

Em I just got myself to blame C Is everything up to fate Am When there's choices I could make D When there's choices I could make

Em Yeah, my heart needs a polygraph C Always so eager to pack my bags Am When I really wanna stay D When I really wanna stay

Em When I wanna stay C When I wanna stay Am When I wanna stay D When I wanna stay

G The arc of time, the stench of sex G Gmaj7 The innocence you can't protect D Each quarter note, each marble step D Walk up and down that lonely treble clef

C Each wanting the next one G Each wanting the next one to arrive C Each wanting the next one G Each wanting the next one to arrive

G An argument for consciousness G Gmaj7 The instinct of the blind insect D Who never thinks not to accept D Its fate, that's fate, that's happiness and death

C You get to the next one G You get to the next on down the line C You get to the next one G You get to the next on down the line

G The remedy of longing that G Gmaj7 Distills each dream and the song I had D By morning watered down again D On silver stars I wish and wish and wish

C Move on to the next one G Move on to the next one down the line C Move on to the next one G Move on to the next one down the line C You get to the next one G You get to the next on down the line C You get to the next one G You get to the next on down the line