Key: F
Introduction:
F Eb Gm
Time passed hard
F Eb Gm
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do
F Eb Gm
But she forgot
F Eb Gm
The moment she saw you
F Eb Gm
When cruel birth debases, we forget
F Eb Gm
When cruel death debases
Dm F Eb
We believe it erases all the rest
Gm
That precedes
verse 2
Gm F Eb
But stand brave, life-liver
Gm F
Bleeding out your days
Eb Gm
In the river of time
Gm
Time moves both ways
F Eb
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
F Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Bridge
F Eb
Not axe nor hammer
Gm
Tumor, tremor
F Eb
Can take it away, and it remains
Gm
It remains
Gm F Eb Gm F Eb
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Gm F Eb
Love is not a symptom of time
F Gm
Time is just a symptom of love
Gm Eb F Eb
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life
Gm Eb F Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
Gm F Eb
Joy of life)
Coda
Eb Gm
Hardly seen, hardly felt
F
Deep down where your fight is waiting
Dm F Eb
Joy of life
Bb
Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it
Dm F Eb
Joy of life
Eb F
And every little gust that chances through
Eb
Will dance in the dust of me and you
Dm F Eb
With joy-of-life
F
One ear of corn
Eb
In silent, reaping
Dm F Eb
Joy of life
F Eb Gm
A way a lone a last a loved a long
F Eb Gm
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
Gm F Eb
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
Eb F Gm Eb F
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
Gm Eb F Gm Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
F Eb Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
F Eb Gm F Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
F Eb Gm F
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-