Winter Solstice Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]Winter solstice,
the earth [G]open wide
With a heart crushed like footsteps
in [Am]snow
(Fictitious per[Asus2]sons
disclaim[Am]ers implied
[G]To all listening from roo[Am]ftops below)
It had rained and the air was
like [G]perfume outside
As the sky changed
[C][Em]

[Verse 2]
[Am]
We began when [Asus2]the ground
[Am]was stil[G]l dry
Planting vineyards where
vineyards [Am]don't grow
Shaping [Asus2]cypress with
pitch [Am]on both si[G]des
For the nights when our
trumpets [Am]won't blow
That regret still there circling
like [G]vultures inside
As your face [C]changed?[Em]
They don't stay in[G]side
(There but for Thy grace [C]go I)

[Verse 3]
Through the eyes [G]of machines,
immaculate [Am]scenes
That had [Em]already passed me by
[C]All the stars on the ground,
[G]Noah's ark in the clouds[Am]
Set [Em]sail in the flood of my mind
[C]The other ani[G]mals drowned
in blasphemous [Am]towns
And [Em]asked as they passed [C]me by:
"Was to do as I [G]please a
European disease?"
[Am][Em]

[Verse 4]
[Am]Winter solstice,
the earth had [G]closed down
So with breastplates of
[Am]righteousness low
Searched for streams in
the caves under[G]ground
Where the Baptists and bootleggers [Am]go
And you smile but your vampire
com[G]plexion still shows
And your past [C]shows[Em]
It's really all [G]that shows
(So often [C]unrecognizably so)
Through the eyes of [G]machines

[Verse 5]
viewed immaculate [Am]scenes
That had [Em]already passed me by
[C]All the stars on the gro[G]und,
Noah's ark in the cloud[Am]s
But the [Em]thought in the back
[C]of my mind:
"Does my misery [G]feed a
metaphysical [Am]need
That's long [Em]since passed me by
[C]Neither reasoning [G]why

[Verse 6]
Nor offering reply?"
[Am]Dear[Em][Esus4][Em]
[C][Em]
[Esus4][Em]
[C]my newlywed wife
[G]You're not the love of my lif[Am]e
It [Em]had already passed [C]me by
Finally grasping [G]the line
Casting pearls before swine?