Verse 1DGDGD
Oh we are nothing: but what our words leave behind are worth the raiment of the sun
GD
Sighed Palinurus, humming "Bird on a Wire", eyeing the cloth of the sun
GD
Thus we are nothing but what our words leave behind.
GD
Thus collect your poetries and incantations and bullets for the blind
GD
I haven't read them, I will not read them, for they dwell too much on signs
Bm
Thus the desert deserts thee, ah:
ChorusBm
I left this bullwhip by the nightstand
F#BmDF#Bm
Julliard was a thousand miles ago
Bm
Where you gonna run when the clouds break?
F#BmDF#
When the sun peaks his eye with attitude and rye,
ABm
and you're set upon and lost
ABm
lost feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
EBm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks, rocks...
EBm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
Verse 2GDGD
Hex signifiers, Iambic petra-fiers, and Roman Shit that we have left behind
GD
I'm gonna plumb the white pages, rocking the pain of ages, looking at your graceless depictions of light
GD
Though when there is there is nothing left to read, there shall be nothing left to write
DC#mBmAG
That's when I get on board and drop
ChorusF#BmBm
I left this bullwhip by the nightstand
F#BmDF#ABm
Julliard you were a thousand miles ago, and your setter drops
ABm
Oh ya feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
EBm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks, rocks...
EBm
feeling that the pain of ages rocks...
BridgeF#GC#mGAC#m
Ah da da da, yada da da dum, da dah oh
Bm
All they own they see! Oh oh oh oh
F#GC#mGAC#m
Yah da da da, yada da da dum, da dah
Bm
All they own they see! Oh oh oh oh
OutroBmDF#EAGBmDF#E
Oh the rain's got to fall
AGBmDF#E
Oh the rain's got to fall
AGBmDF#E
Oh the rain's got to fall
AGBmDF#E
Oh the rain's got to fall
AGAGAGBm
Oh the rain's got to fall
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.