Dm                   Bb
  And so laughs the calendar
F                          D
They domesticate and nailed up
       Dm                      Bbmaj7                     F                   C
Like a hung haunted beast held boast in his time taxidermed for a mankind to pet
Dm                   Bbmaj7       
  And so laughs the calendar
Dm7                  C         
  And so laughs the calendar
Dm                   C        Dm7       C
  And so laughs the calendar
       Bbmaj7              Dm7
So you dip your scarves in iron
C                            Dm
These are troubled times and so
Ebmaj7          Bbmaj7     Dm7
So you dip your scarves in iron
C                            Dm
These are troubled times and so
       Bbmaj7              Dm7
So you dip your scarves in iron
C                            Dm
These are troubled times and so
       Bbmaj7              Dm7
So you dip your scarves in iron
Am              Dm
This time keeps taking
Ebmaj7          Bbmaj7
This time keeps taking
Am              Dm
This time keeps taking
G               F         Dm
This time keeps taking

[Verse 2]

Ebmaj7                           Dm7
These are troubled times and so
C            Dm
(Making a plan)
Ebmaj7                           Dm
These are troubled times and so
Gm7          Dm          Ebmaj7           Dm7
(Making a plan)

Ebmaj7                           Dm7
These are troubled times and so
G               Gm7        Dm
So you dip your scarves in iron
Ebmaj7                           Dm
These are troubled times and so
Cm                         Dm
So you dip your scarves in iron (I run, I run)
Ebmaj7                           Dm
These are troubled times and so (I run)
Cm                         Dm
So you dip your scarves in iron (I run, I run)
Ebmaj7                           Dm
These are troubled times and so
Cm
They always were
Dm
That's all time has his edge
          Ebmaj7
He is our neck

He is our jep
    Am7
Our jeopardy
Dm7
Otherwise our most desperate
Gm7
Most desperate (So dip your scarves in iron)
   Dm
Most desperately creature
                                Ebmaj7
Like you or us and only longer, meaner, and most lonely
Am7            Dm7
Meaner and most lonely
Gm7
A terrible thing to be meaner than that (So dip your scarves in iron)
Dm
Like a corpse with the slightest creep
Ebmaj7
A creature of a specific and infinite
Dm7
Not just a mountain on a cloud tip
Gm7
Decade leg length built in here (So dip your scarves in iron)
Dm
It's working so I don't know which
Ebmaj7
A stab of adder or only yield to whip
Dm7
What simple time cuts away from you
Dm7
Self not actually may you not flash
Dm
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
Ebmaj7
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
Dm7
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
Dm7
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
Dm
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
Ebmaj7
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
Dm
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
                Ebm        Dm
These are troubled times so I dip minds in iron
(Continues 18x through following, beginning to fade on the sixteenth)
             Ebmaj7
Make you not flash
Bbmaj7           Dm
Unprotected neck
Dm7              C
At such an edge

So
Dm          Ebmaj7
May you not flash
Bbmaj7           Cm
Unprotected neck
Dm7              Cm
At such an edge

So
Dm          Bbmaj7
May you not flash (Iron)
            Dm
Unprotected neck (Iron)
Dm7
At such an edge (Iron)
Gm
So
Dm          Ebmaj7
May you not flash (Iron)
Bbmaj7           Cm   Am7
Unprotected neck (Iron)
           Cm
At such an edge (Iron)

So
Dm          Ebmaj7
May you not flash (Iron)
            Dm7
Unprotected neck (Iron)
           C
At such an edge (Iron)

So
Dm          Dmaj7
May you not flash
Dm
Unprotected neck
Dm
At such an edge

So
N.C.
May you not flash
N.C.
Unprotected neck
N.C.
At such an edge
N.C
So