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  C
And their pace does not relent

   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    Dm
To surface from this limbo

Am                 G                      F
Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day
G                       F                    Em
Shall never know what's waiting 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    Bb  C
Prematurely curtailed by the brain

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

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

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

       D          A     Dm  A  Am  Ab
The columns of the ni-ght 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         G
In time the whole raw world will 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      G
Somnolent muster now the dancing dead
D                   Am       Ab     G
Forsake the shelter of their secure beds
D           Am            Ab          G
Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread
          Ab                G
As if the ground they tread would give way
  C          E               Ab       G
Beneath the solemn weight of 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    C
To the drop from Lover's Leap
            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   C
With not one dissenting groan?

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

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

C                                               E
Oh, I'd search out every knowledge 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