Kunci: D minor
Intro 1
Am
C
D
C
D
C
D
Em
D
Bm
Am
Verse 1
C
Whispers
D
C
of a wind to lift you off the ground,
D
The breath of air that'll take
D
Em
This flight of fancy carries you until
Bm
D
you know for sure
To where you were before,
Now you've lost the knack.
C
With best- laid plans you
Verse 2
D
C
once flattered to deceive,
D
Of fatted calf were intent
D
Perpetual motion carries you but
Em
Bm
D
still you know for sure
Am
That you can't keep track
And you can't keep score
E
C
There's no going back any
more.
Am
E
Em
Am
Verse 3
You were tethered
Eyes and ears peeled tightly
on the ground,
Wondering whether
What goes up is certain
G
D
Learn to take the whole thing in
Bm
Am
the round.
Interlude 1
Am
Dm
D
Am
Verse 4
For that's all that's keeping you aloft
It was awkward
Dm
Holding in your breath before the off.
G
D
Dm
though you're not so eager to arrive.
C
On the journey what respect
you earn is token,
G
F
Faith in progress goes unspoken
C
Am
And that's all that's keeping you alive.
E
Am
And you know it's
Verse 5
Dm
it's the getting there
E
Am
That'll slow you,
E
Dm
so you really can't remember where
D
Dm
You were heading when you started;
C
Am
All was eloquence but now it's
Bm
D
all hot air.
Interlude 2
Bm
D
Bm
D
E
Draw breath in apprehen
Verse 6
F
sion,
Dm
D
Dm
D
No safety features left in place,
E
F
Your sentence in suspension.
Dm
D
Dm
You're clinging on,
D
Bm
D
Bm
D
Bm
a basket case.
D
E
F
You didn't want to tell me
Dm
F
Dm
About your secret passion.
D
E
F
Dm
What dummy would you sell me
D
Bm
With such unfashionable haste?
Interlude 3
Bm
D
Bm
D
E
F
Dm
D
Dm
D
E
F
Dm
D
F
Dm
Bm
C#m
E
C#m
E
Am
Bm
D
Bm
Am
Bm
D
Bm
Am
Verse 7
Can't afford to let direction drift.
Are you ready?
Dm
The denouement when it comes is swift.
D
G
Are you joking? Were you hoping
D
Dm
for some jolly japes?
C
Eat those words or spit them out before
they choke you.
C
Am
E
Am
I don't see you mak ing your escape.
Verse 8
E
And you know it's not the going,
Dm
it's the getting there
E
That'll get you, that'll get you,
E
Know you're slowly in the process
D
Dm
You were heading when you started.
C
Am
All was eloquence
E
Am
Or was it all hot air ?
C
D
C
Verse 9
Am
So the pay- off's due,
Now you've told your tale.
All the words you used
Are exhaled.
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