Melodramatic Song
I've been fiddling with these chords for a long time, and I finally wrote some lyrics this morning. It's till a littel awkward, and may evolve as it's played.I haven't done anthing specific with tab. I am just fiddling around at the end of the neck in Am. Doing a little solo that way, at the end of the second chorus, sounds good too.
Anyway, here it is in its full, melodramatic glory:
Verse
Am
Dm
Em7 – Am
Chorus
F – C
F – C
F – C – Dm - Am
Why do Birds Fly?
Verse 1
Why do they dress
Just to impress?
Why’s it seem like a waste?
Pick up one more shift
Through these temporal rifts
And keep up a good face.
When governments fall
The cathode tubes call
And answer we will.
Why do so many care
Why do they sit and stare
Why can’t we get our fill?
These problems of race
Abstractions of face
The wars come and go.
Can we get along?
This "Titanic" throng
When they’ll stop I don’t know.
Chorus
Why do birds fly and why -
Do I want to soar above them?
Why do wolves cry and why -
Can’t I understand their song?
I only have one moment left
Till the asking's gone.
Verse 2
A vast ocean of space
Surrounds every place
Covers all you can see.
These quantum mistakes
Small invisible flakes
One immense tapestry.
Planets spin like a top
But where does it stop?
Dizzy foolish ask on
Math adds up the signs
And destiny finds
That forever goes on
More questions to ask:
The cosmos is vast
Time lost in the haze.
But why in the end
All your close friends
Can seem farther away?
Chorus
Verse 3 (short)
But behind all the curtain
The wizard is certain
A thing learned as we go.
This life isn’t long
One very short song
And we don’t want to know.
Chorus and Out
posted by Chris W. @ 9:43 AM
