Time As A Symptom

F            Eb      Gm
Time passed hard
             F               Eb
And the task was the hardest thing 
she'd ever do
F          Eb
But she forgot
    Gm         F   Eb
The moment she saw you

Gm               F         Eb
So it would seem to be true:
       Gm            F         Eb
When cruel birth debases, we forget
       Gm            F
When cruel death debases
   Eb                Gm      F
We believe it erases all the rest
        Eb
That precedes

[Verse 2]

Gm          F           Eb
But stand brave, life-liver
 Gm            F
Bleeding out your days
        Eb       Gm  F
In the river of time
        Eb
Stand brave:
Gm   F          Eb
Time moves both ways

[Chorus]

       Gm          F        
In the nullifying, defeating, 
  Eb
negating, repeating
Gm F   Eb
Joy of life;
    Gm          F          Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating,
 repeating
Gm F   Eb
Joy of life

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[Bridge]

      F                        
The moment of your greatest joy 
    Eb
sustains:
    Gm
Not axe nor hammer
F
Tumor, tremor
     Eb                   Gm F Eb
Can take it away, and it remains
   Gm F Eb
It remains

       Gm    F     Eb         Gm 
And it pains me to say, I was 
F Eb
wrong
Gm           F       Eb
Love is not a symptom of time
Gm           F            Eb
Time is just a symptom of love

[Chorus]

         Gm          F          
(and the nullifying, defeating, 
Eb
negating, repeating
Gm F   Eb
Joy of life;
    Gm          F          Eb
The nullifying, defeating, negating,
 repeating
Gm F   Eb
Joy of life)

[Coda]

        Eb          Gm
Hardly seen, hardly felt
                     F
Deep down where your fight is 
waiting
Eb
Down 'till the light in your eyes is
 fading:
Gm F   Eb
Joy of life
        Gm                      
Where I know that you can yield, 
         F
when it comes down to it;
Eb
Bow like the field when the wind 
combs through it:
Gm F   Eb
Joy of life
     Gm                      F
And every little gust that chances 
through
       Eb
Will dance in the dust of me and you
     Gm F     Eb
With joy-of-life
    Gm             F
And in our perfect secret-keeping:
 Eb
One ear of corn

In silent, reaping
Gm F     Eb
Joy of life

      Gm     F       Eb
Joy! Again, around a pause, a sound,
 a song:
   Gm    F      Eb
A way a lone a last a loved a long
   Gm       F          Eb
A cave, a grave, a day: arise, 
ascend
  Gm        F        Eb
(Areion, Rharian, go free and graze.
 Amen.)

Gm         F        Eb
A shore, a tide, unmoored a sight, 
abroad:
   Gm     F          Eb
A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked 
(a god)
       Gm          F            
No time. No flock. No chime, no 
Eb
clock. No end
      Gm              F         
White star, white ship, Nightjar, 
Eb
transmit: transcend!

       Gm           F         Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, 
transmit: transcend!
       Gm           F         Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, 
transmit: transcend!
       Gm           F         Eb
White star, white ship, Nightjar, 
transmit: trans-