Sleepwalkers

[Intro] Dm  C  Bb  C

   Dm          C        Bb   C
At night, this mindless army
        Dm     C     Bb   C
Ranks unbroken by dissent
   Dm    C    Bb
Is moved into action
                        Am      Bb
And their pace does not relent
  C


   Dm         C        Bb      C
In step, with great precision
      Dm      C      Bb    C
These dancers of the night
  Dm     C          Bb
Advance against the darkness -
                     Am
How implacable their might!
       Bb
Eyes undulled by moon
      Am            Bb     F
Their arms and legs akimbo
 Am                 Bb
They walk and live, hoping soon
   Am                Bb         C
To surface from this limbo
    Dm


Am                 G             
Their minds, anticipating the 
         F
dawn of the day
G                       F        
Shall never know what's waiting 
            Em
mere insight away
    F        Dm
Too far, too soon

       Dm        C     Bb
Senses dimmed in semi-sentience
     Dm          C         Bb
Only wheeling through this plane
     Dm         C      Bb
Only seeing fragmented images
                             Am    
Prematurely curtailed by the brain
Bb  C


        Dm       C      Bb
But breathing, living, knowing
        Dm      C    Bb
In some measure at least
    Dm         C         Bb
The soul which roots the matter
                       Am
Of both Beauty and the Beast

     Am                      Bb
From what tooth or claw does murder 
spring
     Am                       
From what flesh and blood does 
 Bb         F
passion?
Am                                
Both cut through the air with the 
Bb
pendulum's swing
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   Am                  Bb       C
In deadly but delicate fashion
    Dm


Am                 G             
And every range of feeling is 
          F
there in the dream
G                 F              
And every logic's reeling in the 
             Em
force of the scream
    F      Dm
The senses sting

Am                  G            
And though I may be dreaming and 
         F
reality stalls
G               F                
I only know the meaning of sight 
           Em
and that's all
F   E      Dm      D
And that's nothing

       D          A     Dm  A  
The columns of the ni-ght 
Am  Ab
ad-van-ce
       D      A     Dm   A   Am  Ab
Infectiously, their cryp-tic dan-ce
D       A        Ab  Am   Ab
Gathers converts to the fold -
Ab      G                   Ab  
In time the whole raw world will
       G
 pace these same steps
            Ab
On into the same bitter end

( Eb  Eb7  Ab  Db  Ab )
( Eb  Eb7  Ab  Fm  G )
( G7  Cm  Dm  F  Am  C  B )

D                Am      Ab      
Somnolent muster now the dancing 
G
dead
D                   Am       Ab 
Forsake the shelter of their 
    G
secure beds
D           Am            Ab    
Awaken to a slumber whose depths
      G
 they dread
          Ab                G
As if the ground they tread would 
give way
  C          E               Ab  
Beneath the solemn weight of 
     G
their conception

C
I'd search the hidden corners
        E
Of all this world
       A                   D
Make reason of the sensory whorl
Dbm           Am
If I only had time
                      B  Am
But soon the dream is en-ded

( Dm  G  F  D )
( Dm  D  C  Bb )
( D  C  D  Bb  C )

  Dm       C        Bb       C
Tonight, before you lay down
        Dm       C       Bb     C
To the sweetness of your sleep
       Dm       C       Bb
Do you question your surrender
                         A    Bb  
To the drop from Lover's Leap
  C

            Dm        C     Bb   C
Or does the anaesthetic darkness
     Dm          C     Bb     C
Take hold on its very own?
          Dm   C         Bb
Does your body rise in service
                        A      Bb 
With not one dissenting groan?
  C


A            Bb
These waking dreams of life and 
death
       A
In the mirror
                Bb        F
Are twisted and buckled
A                 Bb
Lashes flicker, a catch of breath
A                     Bb       C  Dm
Skin whitening at the knuckles

Am               G               
The army of sleepwalkers shake 
                  F
their limbs and are loose
G                 F          
And though I am a talker, I can 
               E
phrase no excuse
F           D
Not to rise again

       D             A     Dm   A
In the chorus of the night-time I
  Am  Ab
 belong
    D                 A     Dm   
And I, like you, must dance to 
   A   Am    Ab
that moonlight song
D          A     Ab  G    Ab  
And in the end I too must pay 
            G
the cost of this life
Ab             G
If all is lost none is known
    C            E               
And how could we lose what we've 
A     D
never owned?

C                                 
Oh, I'd search out every knowledge
              E
 that I could find
   A                         D
Unravel all the mysteries of mind
              Dbm
If I only had time
              Am
If I only had time
                    Bm   A
But soon my time is ended