Intro G D Em A DG Em C D When I get off the train and I crawl in your bed G D The past rolls away a lifetime of dread G Em C D Travels through all of the fables I've read G D G D/F# Em D A D And they don't come back until the morningVerso 1:
G Em C D If I knew where my mind went up beneath your mind G D I'd go there more often, I'd never arise G Em C D Like the strawman collector, your words hypnotize G D G D/F# Em D A D But I won't check my pockets till the morningVerso 2:
G Em C D Your lips they surround me in a halo of dreams G D They show me things my eys never could have seen G Em C D Lik the tombstone raider who shined on Galilee G D G D/F# Em D A D Whose candle burned brightly till the morningVerso 3:
G Em C D Oh the law of God and man is in a state of disrepair G A D Shallow is the grave, its headstone bare G Em C D The long forgotten child of our lady of air G D G D/F# Em D A D Who couldn't hear the robin sing that morningVerso 4:
G Em C D My fingers they touch you, and fill your eyes with song G A D My spirit tells my body that my spirit don't belong G Em C D But the right is far more righteous in a world of wrong G D G D/F# Em D A D And the night is pitch black until the morningVerso 5:
G Em C D The saints who are slaughtered are alive like you or me G A D Their prisons were the world, their home eternity G Em C D Their bodies bound and beaten, but their spirit proud and free G D G D/F# Em D A D But are we left crippled in our mourning?Verso 6:
G Em C D Oh but when I get off the train and I crawl in your bed G D The past rolls away a lifetime of dread G Em C D Travels through all of the fables I've read G D G And they don't come back until the morning Outro D/F# Em D A DVerso 7: