Twilight Leaves

 
C                E 
Came up from the ship 
Am 
On marble steps under cedars 
C      E 
To the studded gate 
    Am 
The eremite wont open 
C       E 
Came up from the sea 
Am 
Heavy with weeping 
C               E 
Out of swartest night 
          Am 
Stretched over wretched men 
 

 
         C              E 
Twilight leaves full of voices 
Am                     F 
Life  one lengthening day 
          C 
In purple valleys 
E            Am 
On the estuary 
         C              E 
Twilight leaves full of voices 
Am                     F 
Life  one lengthening day 
       C 
In purple valleys 
E            Am 
On the estuary 
 

 
C                  E 
Came out under the stars 
Am                                C 
A soul stained with recent tears 
           E 
And sacred scars 
Am                  C 
Cast in white stone 
            E              Am 
Came up for milk and figs 
                        C 
Ivory dipped in silver 
                    E 
And the red and the grey 
   Am 
Of iron in blood 
C                    E      Am 
Rust flour for black bread 
                            C 
The orchard lies untended 
             E 
In chains of bone 
     Am 
Enough of weeping 
 

 
         C              E 
Twilight leaves full of voices 
Am                     F 
Life  one lengthening day 
          C 
In purple valleys 
E            Am 
On the estuary 
         C              E 
Twilight leaves full of voices 
Am                     F 
Life  one lengthening day 
       C 
In purple valleys 
E            Am 
On the estuary 
         C              E 
Twilight leaves full of voices 
Am                     F 
Life  one lengthening day 
       C 
In purple valleys 
E            Am 
On the estuary 
 

Outro 
C              E             Am 
This tower is of resistance 
             F                    C 
Of sovereign right to persistence 
            E                  Am         C 
Against all conditioned, temporal utility 
                 E           Am 
This tower is of resistance 
                      F            C 
Of sovereign right to persistence 
            E                   Am         C 
Against all conditioned, temporal utility