The Forest Awakes Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][D][Am][D][Am]
[D][G][D][Am]
[D]

[Verse 1]
[Am]The Forest [C]awakes
[D]A des[G]ert at daw[C]n[D]
A mountain [Am]at night
And the river moves on
[D]The

[Verse 2]
people [G]awake[C]
They're marching [D]along
[G]The streets are ali[Am]ve
With a [D]terrible song
Forwards and [Am]backwards[D] in ev'ry

[Verse 3]
[Em]
[C]direc[D]tion
[Am]The [D]atom's per[G]petu[D]al mot[Am]ion
[D]The shifting of [Am]light on
[G]the [Em]banks of t[C]he r[D]iver
[Am]I'm [D]free but I'm keeping my
clothes on
[Am][C][D]

[Verse 4]
We're marching along
The street where you live
[Am]I'm calling your name
[D]The song is a gift

[Verse 5]
[D]A song is a road
[Am]A ro[D]ad is a face
[Am]A face is a time[D]
And a time is a place

[Verse 6]
A [D]place of belief an[Am]d
[D]a time of confusion
The heart is a simple equation
With beautiful words and
with beautiful people
A song is a face is a moun[G]tain
[D][Am][G][D]

[Interlude 1]
[Am][G][D]
[Em][G][Am][Em][G][C][D]
[Am][G]
[D][G][C][D]
[Em][G]

[Verse 7]
A [G]fruit that falls be[C]fore [G]it's grown
I heard a sound and [C]bird [G]has flown
[Am]It breaks piec[G]es above[D] the fores[G]t[Am]
A million [G]particles [D]born [G]today
[C][G]

[Verse 8]
[D]Out [C]beyond[G] the blu[D]e hor[G]izon
[C]Air can[G]not [D]esc[E]ape
[A]Underneath the wee[B]ping willow[A]
[F#m]I can [B]see you[F#m]r face
[B]

[Verse 9]
[Eb]Free form [F]- climbing all o[Eb]ver me
Creatures great [Gm]and [Bb]small[Eb]
[F]Doctors [Eb]- pulling them out of you
Hideous, [F]virtuous, [Eb]both [B]of us
[E]Come

[Verse 10]
[B]- in my kit[A]che[B]n
When it rains outside
[Abm]Sweet [E]inspi[B]ration

[Interlude 2]
Sneaks up from behind
[B][E][B][Am]
[C]
[Am][C][Eaug][E]

[Verse 11]
[E]The forest [B]is true[Am]
[D]I kno[Am]w for a fac[D]t
[G]That the [D]bigger the [G]front
[Am]The bigg[D]er the back[Am]
[D]My

[Verse 12]
[Am]heart beating still
Through the perilous [D]night
The bombs burst in air
But my hair is all right
[D]The shifting

[Verse 13]
of light on
the trees and the houses
[Am]I drown in an ocean of perfume
[D]The[D] strangeness of words,[G]
how the meaning keeps changing
But [Am]somehow the beauty will find you

[Outro 1]
[Am]