FEbGm
Time passed hard
FEb
And the task was the hardest thing she'd ever do
FEb
But she forgot
GmFEb
The moment she saw you
GmFEb
So it would seem to be true:
GmFEb
When cruel birth debases, we forget
GmF
When cruel death debases
EbGmF
We believe it erases all the rest
Eb
That precedes
[Verse 2]
GmFEb
But stand brave, life-liver
GmF
Bleeding out your days
EbGmF
In the river of time
Eb
Stand brave:
GmFEb
Time moves both ways
[Chorus]
GmFEb
In the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
GmFEb
Joy of life;
GmFEb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
GmFEb
Joy of life
[Bridge]
FEb
The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Gm
Not axe nor hammer
F
Tumor, tremor
EbGmFEb
Can take it away, and it remains
GmFEb
It remains
GmFEbGmFEb
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
GmFEb
Love is not a symptom of time
GmFEb
Time is just a symptom of love
[Chorus]
GmFEb
(and the nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
GmFEb
Joy of life;
GmFEb
The nullifying, defeating, negating, repeating
GmFEb
Joy of life)
[Coda]
EbGm
Hardly seen, hardly felt
F
Deep down where your fight is waiting
Eb
Down 'till the light in your eyes is fading:
GmFEb
Joy of life
GmF
Where I know that you can yield, when it comes down to it;
Eb
Bow like the field when the wind combs through it:
GmFEb
Joy of life
GmF
And every little gust that chances through
Eb
Will dance in the dust of me and you
GmFEb
With joy-of-life
GmF
And in our perfect secret-keeping:
Eb
One ear of corn
In silent, reaping
GmFEb
Joy of life
GmFEb
Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound, a song:
GmFEb
A way a lone a last a loved a long
GmFEb
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend
GmFEb
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze. Amen.)
GmFEb
A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, abroad:
GmFEb
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god)
GmFEb
No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end
GmFEb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
GmFEb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
GmFEb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: transcend!
GmFEb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, transmit: trans-