Winter Solstice (Cifras)

Winter Solstice (alt. version)

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mewithoutYou

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F#m                             E

Winter solstice, the earth open wide

                                       F#m

with a heart crushed like footsteps in snow

                                    E

(((fictitious persons disclaimers implied

                                 F#m

to all listening from rooftops below)))

                                   E

it had rained and the air was like perfume outside

                   A G#m C#m

as the sky changed



F#m                                E

we began when the ground was still dry

                                         F#m

planting vineyards where vineyards don’t grow

                                   E

shaping cypress with pitch on both sides

                                       F#m

for the nights when our trumpets won’t blow

                                      E

that regret still there circling like vultures inside

                     A G#m C#m

as your face changed?

                        E

They don’t stay inside.

(there but for Thy grace go I...)



A                     C#m                         F#m

through the eyes of machines we viewed immaculate scenes

         C#m

that had already passed me by

A                    C#m                       F#m

all the stars on the ground, Noah’s ark in the clouds

    C#m

set sail in the flood of my mind,

A                 C#m                    F#m

the other animals drowned in blasphemous towns

    C#m

and asked as they passed me by

A               C#m                 F#m    C#m

“was to do as I please a European disease?”



F#m                             E

Winter solstice, the earth open wide

                                         F#m

with a mouth closed and face carved like stone

                                    E

dressed the dawn in the air drawn designs

                                  F#m

as the sounds rose in waveforms unknown

                                  E

and you smile but your vampire complexion still shows

                 A G#m C#m

so the past goes.



F#m                                  E

August 3rd, all the earth had closed down,

                                      F#m

so with breastplates of righteousness low

                                       E

searched for streams in the caves underground

                                   F#m

where the Baptists and bootleggers go

                                   E

when the sun hits Deer Flat your reflection still shows

                    A G#m C#m

and your past shows.

                     E

It’s really all that shows

(so often unrecognizably so)



A                 C#m                           F#m

We gave up on our dreams for those projected on screens

         C#m

that had already passed me by

A                      C#m                       F#m

with further suffering found in our insufferable sounds

        C#m

and the thought in the back of my mind:

A               C#m                 F#m

“does my misery feed a metaphysical need

       C#m

that’s long since passed me by,

A                C#m

neither reasoning why

               F#m   C#m

nor offering reply?”