Tortoises All the Way Down Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]Wat[Em]chmen w their eyes closed,
[C]ransom and[Em] a scripture by the picture of you[C]r face
Messages [Em]the rhymes chose,
[C]blueprint for contritio[Em]n in a cigarette cas[C]e

[Verse 2]
[Em]Everybody knows, [C]son
Everybody [Em]knows what
[C]you've done
Everybody [Em]knows, son[C]
[Em]Everybody knows exactly
what [C]you've done

[Verse 3]
Charles was [Em]alive then,
[C]towering like a[Em]
Mountain at the silver trumpet [C]blast
William [Em]still alive [C]till
when our altars
[Em]Are all emptied of his offerings
to [C]the last

[Verse 4]
Everybody [Em]knows, son[C]
Everybody [Em]knows just what
[C]you've done
[Em]Everybody knows, son
[C]And so again it goes you can't end what [Am]you've
[Em]begun

[Interlude 1]
[G][D][Em][G][Em]
[G][D][Em][G]
[Am]
[G]Surely [Am]as the sun

[Verse 5]
[Em]earl[G]y[D]
on the east [Em]side [G]comes
[Am]Be f[G]ore my s[Am]leeple[Em]ss e[G]yes your
[D]fea[Em]tures met[G]amorphosize
Surely [Em]as th[G]e sun ea[Am]rly[G]
[Am]on the east si[Em]de c[G]omes
If only [Am]you had [Em]known [G]how[D]
[Am]soon you'd [Em]be on your own
How sud[G]denly they'd cast
[Am]the stone[Em]

[Verse 6]
When the mouths of praise [D]and
blame start to sound [C]the same
And [Em]you've asked they please
not come back around
& Yet they happen [D]by,
you can offer [C]my reply:
"There's tortoises all the way
[Em]down."
[G][D][Em]

[Verse 7]
[G]
[Em]Since the night you [G]came [Asus4]dressed
[Am]up in your[Em] righteous name[G]
All [Am]you claim [Em]to s[G]ee d[D]oesn't
mean a thing [Em]to me[G]
Surely [Am]as th[Em]e sun ea[G]rl[D]y
[Am]on the east side[Em] comes
I [G]know I'm [Am]not the o[G]nly [Am]one[Em]

[Verse 8]
Whose blindfold-and-a-scale-ship [D]refused
refused refused refused [C]refused to sail
[Em]And yet failed since each search
for solid ground
You sing to me at [D]night as
the moving [C]finger writes
On [Em]tortoises all the way down
You think that glass [D]of wine
could cancel half [C]a line?
[Em]But it won't wash our
words out this time
& I'm not the [D]only one who's got
nowhere [C]to run

[Verse 9]
[Em]Cause everybody
[C]knows, son
[Em]Everybody knows just
what you've [C]done
Everybody [Em]knows, [C]son
Everybody knows what you've [Em]done
While all [D]hiding

[Verse 10]
[Bm]inside our
[D]painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside
That [C]That [F#]That [Em]That That That That
same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside lives
Serpent-in-the-sky-lives!
[D]Servants-of-the-least-high!
Most-tortoiseless lives!
[C]lives!
lives!
[Am]lives!
[F#]lives!
lives!
[Em]lives!
lives!
lives!
lives!
[G]lives!
lives!
[D]lives!
lives!
[C]lives!
lives!
lives!
lives!
Would you [Em]meet me sometime [D]soon,
son, down by the [C]riverside?
[Am]There's room [D]enough in my paradise
My empty little mind