Time As A Symptom

	  		
verse 1 

F            Eb      Gm 
Time passed hard 
         F              Eb          Gm 
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do 
F    Eb   Gm 
But she forgot 
F           Eb  Gm 
The moment she saw you 

F                Eb     Gm 
So it would seem to be true: 
       F             Eb         Gm 
When cruel birth debases, we forget 
 F          Eb      Gm 
When cruel death debases 
                 Dm   F        Eb 
We believe it erases all the rest 
Gm 
That precedes 

verse 2 

Gm          F           Eb 
But stand brave, life-liver 
 Gm            F 
Bleeding out your days 
        Eb       Gm 
In the river of time 
  F     Eb 
Stand brave: 
Gm 
Time moves both ways 


                       F                  Eb 
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 
Gm  F Eb 
Joy of life; 
                     F                   Eb 
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 
Gm  F Eb 
Joy of life 


Bridge 

      F                      Eb       Gm 
The moment of your greatest joy sustains: 
      F       Eb 
Not axe nor hammer 
  Gm 
Tumor, tremor 
     F                      Eb 
Can take it away, and it remains 
 Gm 
It remains 

       Gm F Eb                 Gm F Eb 
And it pains me to say, I was wrong 
 Gm              F        Eb 
Love is not a symptom of time 
                 F         Gm 
Time is just a symptom of love 


             Gm          Eb         F         Eb 
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 
 Gm  F   Eb 
Joy of life; 
        Gm         Eb          F         Eb 
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating 
Gm  F   Eb 
Joy of life) 


Coda 

        Eb          Gm 
Hardly seen, hardly felt 
      F 
Deep down where your fight is waiting 
Eb 
Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading: 
 Dm F  Eb 
Joy of life 
                                           Bb 
Where i know that you can yield, when it comes down to it; 
 Eb                                       Bb 
Bow like the field when the wind combs through it: 
Dm  F   Eb 
Joy of life 
     Eb                      F 
And every little gust that chances through 
       Eb 
Will dance in the dust of me and you 
      Dm  F  Eb 
With joy-of-life 
             Eb      Gm 
And in our perfect secret-keeping: 
 F 
One ear of corn 
      Eb 
In silent, reaping 
Dm F Eb 
Joy of life 

 F             Eb             Gm 
Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound, a song: 
   F             Eb            Gm 
A way a lone a last a loved a long 
    F               Eb            Gm 
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend 

(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.) 

   F                          Eb 
A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad: 
   Gm               F          Eb 
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god) 
    Eb        F         Gm        Eb       F 
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end 
      Gm            Eb        F        Gm         Eb 
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend! 

       F           Eb         Gm        F          Eb 
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend! 
       F           Eb         Gm        F          Eb 
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend! 
       F            Eb        Gm          F 
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-