Chords
Sleepwalkers

Key: D

Introduction:

        Dm                         C                    Bb      C  
At night, this mindless army
                     Dm            C            Bb      C  
Ranks unbroken by dissent
        Dm         C         Bb  
Is moved into action
                                                                Am              Bb    C  
And their pace does not relent
        Dm                      C                    Bb              C  
In step, with great precision
                Dm              C              Bb         C  
These dancers of the night
     Dm            C                         Bb  
Advance against the darkness -
                                                        Am  
How implacable their might!
                  Bb  
Eyes undulled by moon
                Am                              Bb            F  
Their arms and legs akimbo
  Am                                            Bb  
They walk and live, hoping soon
        Am                                         Bb                      C         Dm  
To surface from this limbo
Am                                            G                                                         F  
Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day
G                                                            F                                                    Em  
Shall never know what's waiting mere insight away
          F                    Dm  
Too far, too soon
                  Dm                    C            Bb  
Senses dimmed in semi-sentience
             Dm                         C                      Bb  
Only wheeling through this plane
             Dm                      C              Bb  
Only seeing fragmented images
                                                                             Am         Bb    C  
Prematurely curtailed by the brain
                     Dm                 C              Bb  
But breathing, living, knowing
                     Dm              C         Bb  
In some measure at least
          Dm                      C                      Bb  
The soul which roots the matter
                                                             Am  
Of both Beauty and the Beast
             Am                                                         Bb  
From what tooth or claw does murder spring
             Am                                                              Bb                      F  
From what flesh and blood does passion?
Am                                                                                    Bb  
Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing
        Am                                              Bb                 C         Dm  
In deadly but delicate fashion
Am                                            G                                                            F  
And every range of feeling is there in the dream
G                                            F                                                                      Em  
And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream
          F              Dm  
The senses sting
Am                                              G                                                      F  
And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls
G                                      F                                                                      Em  
I only know the meaning of sight and that's all
F      E              Dm              D  
And that's nothing
                  D                         A            Dm    A    Am    Ab  
The columns of the ni-ght ad-van-ce
                  D              A            Dm      A      Am    Ab  
Infectiously, their cryp-tic dan-ce
D                 A                    Ab    Am      Ab  
Gathers converts to the fold -
Ab              G                                                 Ab                      G  
In time the whole raw world will pace these same steps
                                Ab  
On into the same bitter end
 Eb    Eb7    Ab    Db    Ab)  
 Eb    Eb7    Ab    Fm    G)  
 G7    Cm    Dm    F    Am    C    B)  
D                                         Am              Ab              G  
Somnolent muster now the dancing dead
D                                                 Am                 Ab            G  
Forsake the shelter of their secure beds
D                            Am                              Ab                         G  
Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread
                          Ab                                         G  
As if the ground they tread would give way
     C                         E                                      Ab                 G  
Beneath the solemn weight of their conception
C  
I'd search the hidden corners
                     E  
Of all this world
                  A                                                 D  
Make reason of the sensory whorl
Dbm                            Am  
If I only had time
                                                          B    Am  
But soon the dream is en-ded
 Dm    G    F    D)  
 Dm    D    C    Bb)  
 D    C    D    Bb    C)  
     Dm                 C                    Bb                 C  
Tonight, before you lay down
                     Dm                 C                 Bb            C  
To the sweetness of your sleep
                  Dm                 C                 Bb  
Do you question your surrender
                                                                  A         Bb         C  
To the drop from Lover's Leap
                                Dm                    C            Bb      C  
Or does the anaesthetic darkness
             Dm                         C            Bb            C  
Take hold on its very own?
                          Dm      C                      Bb  
Does your body rise in service
                                                                A              Bb      C  
With not one dissenting groan?
A                              Bb  
These waking dreams of life and death
                  A  
In the mirror
                                          Bb                    F  
Are twisted and buckled
A                                            Bb  
Lashes flicker, a catch of breath
A                                                      Bb                 C    Dm  
Skin whitening at the knuckles
Am                                      G                                                                                      F  
The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose
G                                            F                                                                 E  
And though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse
F                            D  
Not to rise again
                  D                                 A            Dm      A    Am    Ab  
In the chorus of the night-time I belong
          D                                            A            Dm              A      Am         Ab  
And I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song
D                         A            Ab    G         Ab                                    G  
And in the end I too must pay the cost of this life
Ab                                 G  
If all is lost none is known
          C                              E                                      A            D  
And how could we lose what we've never owned?
C                                                                                                                            E  
Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find
        A                                                                 D  
Unravel all the mysteries of mind
                                     Dbm  
If I only had time
                                     Am  
If I only had time
                                                     Bm      A  
But soon my time is ended