North Star Inverted

   (Em) (Am) (G)  (D)  (C)  (Gm)
   G#m  C#m   B    F#   E    Bm

E|--0----0----2----2----0----3----
B|--0----1----2----3----1----3----
G|--0----2----0----2----0----3----
D|--2----2----0----0----2----6----
A|--2----0----0----x----3----x----
E|--0----x----3----x----0----x----

The chords in parentheses are the 
chord shapes as played without a 
capo while the ones below them are 
the actual chord names.

Em has a slide up like this 
occasionally.

E|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--| 
B|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--| 
G|-x--0--0-------0--0--0--0--| 
D|-x--2--2-------2--2--2--2--| 
A|-x--2--2--1/2--2--2--2--2--| 
E|-0--0--0-------0--0--0--0--| 


[Verse 1]

Em
The future can't sleep,
          Am
It doesn't need to, It dreams 
standing
 C
up like the statues In
   G
the gardens we'll pass through-
        D
Past the guardians at the gatepost, 
The Light
Em                    Am    
           how it gives and it 
    C
takes.

Em
Pitch black, the poles lost their
Am                  C
grip, Let the axis reverse
                    C
Precious balance of mind now 
disturbed
             C
This world, it slips and
Em               C          Em
tears. And if the smoke ever clears,

[Chorus 1]

        G
Will the southern skies now host
   D
The Northern Lights? Let's
       Em
make pretend
       Am     D
It was all a delusion,
    Am         D
It's all in your head.
      Am       D
It was all an illusion,
    Am           D
Like gold out like gold

out of (lead)

[Verse 2]

   Em
The present can't see,
     Am
It is blind but has visions Of
C
pillage and pilgrimage,
   G
The purging of empires
D
Tyrants, their treasonous
    Em
wars...
            Am             C
Then without warning its done.
 Em
A clean slate just feels like a
Am
dead weight, The burdens of
C         Em
 surface stone Scrapes
C           Em
 skin from bones,

[Chorus 1]

     G
As we crawled across dark parking
   D                      Em
lots, Felt the forest floor 
cringe...
           Am           C
And let the cities cave in.

[Verse 3]
   Em
The past lost its voice, It can't
Am
speak but was spoken for
  C
By pundit and prophet...

[Chorus 1]

         G
Until the dust clouds around us
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  D                        Em
Eroded our embellished belief

[Bridge 1]

       Am          C
In some fixed history.
C
Could we recognize
D
Symbols made of smoke?

[Chorus 2]

Across the
G      D
canopy,
        C          D
That soft-spoken sky,
G               D
Burnt by the torchlight
     C             D
As we chart out the ley-line.
G            D
  Pray the earth it won't
C               D
break one more time,
G                 D
All the voices we heard As
  C              D    Em
we followed the fault lines.

[Verse 4]

Em                      D
Devoured, digested, cast out...

    Em  D  C
Decomposed...   x2

[Bridge 2]

Em D x4

Em D

[Verse 5]

C        Em
Gods arrive
C         Em       C
  Line of dark chariots
         Em
Starlight dies
C         Em     C
 I can't bury it yet
           Em
Wheels of fire
Em            C
Swing they so low
       Em
Fade to black
Em      D
Carry us home

[Verse 6]

Em
Polaris slips her tongue Through a
Am
kiss made out of cinders,
    C
In a marriage of chemicals.
   G
The sky's sulphur heart, carved-out
D
veins of slate, The pulse of the
Em
earth- How it
Am          C
sinks and it slows.

  Em                      Am
An oil corn and wine coated 
keystone, The archway,

[Bridge 3]

   C
two columns (now ash and dust)
C
   Frame this path for us,
  C      Em
The undeserved- Brought low and
  C      Em
   unpreserved

[Partal Chorus 1]

         G                   
From this unhallowed gaze, we 
   D
profane; The cursed abandon
     Em
the weak,

[Bridge 4]

          Am      D
To stagger on in a stolen
Am           D          Em
display Of confusion, of faith.

[Break]

Em Am C

[Verse 7]

   Em
The North Star, she nods out,
          Am
Doused her torch, left us forever
       C
Without promise or penance.

[Partal Chorus 1]

             G
We're left to merge with the trench,
 Taught
    D                         
the cruelties that it takes to 
  Em
survive. (to survive)

[Verse 8]

    Am          C
Just accept to be free.
Em
I used to waste my skin,
       Am
Shed my time, change my colors,
       C
Until I settled for peace

[Partal Chorus 1]

            G
In death, an emerald sea stands
D
before me Unveiled
   Em
but unbowed

[Bridge 5]
             Am         C
Each wave's a rainbow of sound.

     C
Could we recognize
   D
Any signal in the noise?

[Chorus 2]

      G           D
Across that static sea,
    C            D
O, crestfallen sky
G              D
Yearn for the currents
     C             D      G
That carved out the ley-line.
         D             C          
Pray the earth it won't break one 
    D
more time,
       G            D
All the voices we heard As we
C            D
followed the fault line.
G   Gm   Em D             C   
   Pray the earth it won't 
           D
break one more time
       G          D         
All the voices we heard as we 
C            D
followed the fault line.
G            D             C    
   Pray the earth it won't break
          D
 one more time
       G          D         
All the voices we heard as we 
C            D
followed the fault line.
G            D             C    
   Pray the earth it won't 
          D
break,
       G          D         
All the voices we heard as we 
C            D
followed the fault line.
G            D             C    
   Pray the earth it won't 
          D
break,
       G          D         
All the voices we heard as we 
C            D        Em
followed the fault line.

[Verse 4]

Em                          D
Devour, break down and black out...
     Em  D  C
Decompose...     x2

D Em