The One True Colour

C               Dm               
As one child is taught red on his
          Am
 mother's knee
             F
The one true colour
                     C          
A neighbor is taught blue on his 
          Dm
mother's knee
             Am
The one true colour
       F
With a fervour inherited
C          Dm
It will be subsequently delivered
Am                F
Ignore the spectrum


[Chorus]
             Am
Dear whom it may concern
F                             C
I feel as though I'm about to crash 
and burn
G                               
I think I'm falling and there's no 
Am
return
         F                    C   
But I've no idea to whom this may 
        G
concern

G                          Am
I'm looking out at all the stars and
 I learn
F                          C
There's no one up above to hear me 
yearn
    G
I'm on my own


[Verse]
C         Dm                Am
In the arena of the endless unknown
             F
Do not stage theatre
             C                   
Do not stage theatre and call it 
Dm
truth
            Am
And call it truth

                      F            
And when one child is taught red on
              C
 his mother's knee
           Dm
It must be subsequently delivered
     Am                F
With all of the spectrum


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[Chorus]
             Am
Dear whom it may concern
F                             C
I feel as though I'm about to crash 
and burn
G                               
I think I'm falling and there's no 
Am
return
         F                    C   
But I've no idea to whom this may 
        G
concern
G                          Am
I'm looking out at all the stars and
 I learn
F                          C
There's no one up above to hear me 
yearn
    G
I'm on my own


[Interlude]
Am          F                    
Someone has whipped the carpet 
     C              Dm
from beneath my feet
                     Am        F
Someone upturned the furniture in my
 mind


[Bridge]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

[Spoken]
N.C.
(To dissect is to broaden the 
adventure

And enrich one's tenure

So do not blunt the surgeon's knife)

[Bridge]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

[Spoken]
N.C.
(To dissect is to broaden the 
adventure

And enrich one's tenure

So do not blunt the surgeon's knife)

[Interlude]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark


[Other]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

C                        Dm
Oh, there's so much to explore
                     Am
There's so much to absorb
             F
And then the atoms that you borrowed
C          Dm                 Am
They are returned to the cosmos
        F


C                    Dm
There's so much to explore
                     Am
There's so much to absorb
             F
And then the atoms that you borrowed
C           Dm                F
They are returned when you're...