Em: 022000
  Bm7: x24232
    C: x32010
    G: 320003
 F#/D: 2x023x
   Am: x02210
    D: xx0232
Cmaj7: x32000
   B+: x21000

         Em                                Bm7
There's no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand
     C                                        G  F#/D
And a language learned and forgot, in turn, is studied once again
      Em                                    Bm7
It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen
       C                               G  F#/D
You can squint out into snowy static to make out the meaning
           Em                                Bm7
And keep on stretching the antenna hoping that it will come clear
            C                                 G  F#/D
We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear

      Am      D         G  F#/D      Em
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings
    Am     D               G  F#/D    Em
It's alive with such possibilities
Am    D              G      F#/D     Cmaj7
All I know is I feel better when I sing
           B+
Burdens are lifted from me
                 Em   Bm7 C G F#/D
That's my voice rising

Em Bm7 C G F#/D Em Bm7 C G F#/D

            Em                                      Bm7
So, Michael, please keep the tape rolling, boys keep strumming those guitars
         C                                    G  F#/D
We need a record of our failures, yes, we must document our love
    Em                                     Bm7
I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain
  C                                    G  F#/D
To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending

  Am         D                G  F#/D  Em
So thank you, friends, for the time we shared
       Am          D           G  F#/D   Em
My love stays with you like sunlight and air
            Am     D                 G       F#/D      Cmaj7
And though I truly wish I could keep hanging around here
         B+
My joy is covering me
                 Em  Bm7 C G F#/D
Soon, I will disappear

Em Bm7 C G F#/D

C
It's not a movie
Em
No private screening
Am
This method acting
        D
Well, I call that living
  C
It's like a fountain
Em
A door has opened
Am
We have a problem
     D
With no solution
      Cmaj7             B+
But to love and to be loved

  Am        D              G   F#/D   Em
So I've made peace with the falling leaves
     Am          D          G   F#/D Em
I see their same fate in my own body
           Am      D              G      F#/D         Cmaj7
But I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream
     B+
And returned to that which
             Em Bm7 C G F#/D
Gave birth to me     

Em Bm7 C G F#/D
Gave birth to me
Gave birth to me