Key: A
Introduction:
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Does it bother you? The stories untold, unheard of?
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All these lives lived, and no one knows. Silent walkers.
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This world is full, yet still filling. So many stories.
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Yet we only know a few words. We are blind to the chapters.
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Billions of books, and we just keep writing for blind eyes.
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There's music unheard, melodies unplayed and tunes unsung.
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What is a library for if not to be browsed? We are oblivious.
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Does it bother anyone that we speak to a dead audience?
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The glass is poured, filled and then drunk.
G Am
Empty lies the bottle upon the floor.
Bbm C
Every man his own brewer of his wine
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Until at last his orchard dries.
G Am
His bottles will dry and crack,
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And no one will know his taste.
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His glass will shatter to deaf ears,
Cm C
And his brew will go to waste.
verse 2
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We plug into the world, but we read so little, hear so little.
C Am F C Em F
So much music, so little time. Bookshelves untouched, drowned in dust.
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Too much time spent on our 9 to 5's, and nothing left for the unheard composers.
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We all have dreams, some broken, some dead and abandoned. So few achieved.
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Like nightmares we walk, afraid and abandoned. Closed off and sheltered.
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The only eyes that read us are our own, the mirrors our biggest fans.
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Maybe it's time that we slow down and take time to read something new.
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Time to ask a question, meaningless but full of potential.
Fm C Em Cm
The glass is poured, filled and then drunk.
G Am
Empty lies the bottle upon the floor.
Bbm C
Every man his own brewer of his wine
Fm C Em Cm
Until at last his orchard dries.
G Am
His bottles will dry and crack,
Eb D
And no one will know his taste.
F#m Fm
His glass will shatter to deaf ears,
Cm C
And his brew will go to waste.
Verse: 3
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Ask a stranger about their story, and maybe they'll read you a chapter.
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Millions of songs and we confine ourselves to our favorite playlists.
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Does it scare anyone else that the most important people to us
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Came into our lives by chance? A stranger turned lover by chance?
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The monster under our beds is fate, the most terrifying of all myths.
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Sometimes kind, other times cruel. Possibly caring, maybe deceitful.
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The one diety we cannot turn our backs to, everlasting control.
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Unless we take time to read new lines, taste new flavors.
Fm C Em Cm
The glass is poured, filled and then drunk.
G Am
Empty lies the bottle upon the floor.
Bbm C
Every man his own brewer of his wine
Fm C Em Cm
Until at last his orchard dries.
G Am
His bottles will dry and crack,
Eb D
And no one will know his taste.
F#m Fm
His glass will shatter to deaf ears,
Cm C
And his brew will go to waste.
Verse: 4
Am F C F
Fate is a wild card, unreadable and powerful.
C Am F C Em F
One small change, one small decision can change the world.
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Is anyone else afraid of the endless variables, the constant uncertanty?
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This fear captivates me and yet I cannot tear my eyes away.
Outro
C F
Put down your pens, and pick up a book.
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Close your books and read something new.
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Find a new glass to drink from.
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Open your ears, your eyes, your heart and mind.