Build

Intro:
A C#m B 
A C#m B 


 A 
Out there, blink and youll miss it 
        Amaj7                               B 
Is the promised land or at least somewhere different 
 A 
Pressed up to the glass to see it 
      Amaj7          B 
But I get distracted by my reflection 
 E                      Amaj7 
Like a live wire, hope flickers 
 C#m                        B 
Against the pitch black in rich contrast 
 E                   A 
Hypnotized by the horizon 
 B 
I hold out my hand 

 
 A                                 E 
I just want to build some kind of bridge 
              F#m             A 
To where the source material lives 
                            E 
I want to build, brick by brick 
            F#m 
Until Im changed 


      A 
For a minute Ill be endless 
      C#m            B 
For a minute Ill be brave 
      A 
For a minute Ill make sense of 
 C#m         B 
All of my mistakes 


A 
Ive poured over the blueprints 
C#m                B 
Ive stuck to the plan 
A 
Even a little ahead of schedule 
          C#m              B 
But still missing parts of who I am 
 E/Ab           A 
An active imagination 
 C#m            B 
Fills the empty space 
 E/Ab               A 
The pencil reaches wide 
          C#m                        B 
But like anything held too tight, it breaks 

 
 A                               E 
I just want to make some kind of mark 
          F#m                 A 
Permanent ink right from the start 
          E 
I want to draw, line by line 
           F#m 
Until Im changed 
A                                 E 
I just want to build some kind of bridge 
              F#m             A 
To where the source material lives 
                           E 
I want to build, brick by brick 
          F#m 
Until Im changed 


      A 
For a minute Ill be endless 
       C#m            B 
For a minute Ill be brave 
      A 
For a minute Ill make sense of 
 C#m         B 
All of my mistakes 
      G#m            A 
For a minute Ill be endless 
      C#m            B/Eb  B 
For a minute Ill be home 
      E                 A 
For a minute Ill make something 
      C#m            B 
Ill forever call my own 

Outro:
A 
Ill always wrestle with patience 
C#m                B 
The dissonance of purgatory 
         A 
But Ill try to make use of the tension 
        C#m               B 
In this first and second act of my story