G#m Gdim G#m Gdim F#
B
Green world, lovely chloroform
C#m
Front porch in the thunderstorm
E C#m B
Controlled chaos, confused energy
B
Stop reading the weather charts
C#m
Stop counting the playing cards
E C#m B
There's no system, there's no guarantees
E F# B
That the love you feel and carry inside can be passed
E F# G#m
But you try, I know you do, you still talk to your plants
C#m F#
Ask "How are you getting on alone?"
B
Some wander the wilderness
C#m
Some drink cosmopolitans
E C#m B
Some cull science, some glean astral planes
B
I can't tell where the canvas stops
C#m
Homesick as an astronaut
E C#m B
Just keep drifting, but still can't explain
E F# B
How the love we feel we carry inside can be passed
E F# G#m
See a brother in the gutter, you reach out your hand
C#m F#
Ask "How are you getting on alone?"
B C#m E C#m B
B C#m E C#m B
G#m Gdim G#m Gdim F#
B
What gauge measures miracles?
C#m
Whose heartbeat's electrical?
E C#m B
We feign sickness with our modern joy
B
But even Western medicine
C#m
It couldn't save Danny Callahan
E C#m B
Bad bone marrow, a bald little boy
E F# B
But the love he feels he carries inside can be passed
E F# G#m
He lay still, his mother kissed him goodbye, said come back
C#m F#
Where are you going to alone?
C#m F#
Where are you going all alone?
B C#m E C#m B
G#m Gdim G#m Gdim F#
B