The Threat of Time

Words and Music - Gary Morrell

unreleased

b. 10/14/22

 

F Eb Ebmaj7 x4 

F             Eb    Ebmaj7     F               Eb  Ebmaj7 (F Eb Ebmaj7) x2 

Heading in the wrong direction is worse than doing nothing    at all 

F               Eb  Ebmaj7     F   Eb    Ebmaj7 (F Eb Ebmaj7) x2 

The forest never chooses and somehow always gets it right 

G                F  Fmaj7   G      F  Fmaj7 (G F Fmaj7) x2 

Winter springs to summer   inexorable march to  fall 

G F Fmaj7 x2 

G              F  Fmaj7   G    F  Fmaj7  (G F Fmaj7) x2 

Daylight looking back ever forward calmly into night 

C     Ab        C     Eb D C  Bb D C 

I will stare at the wall 

C        Ab       Eb    D    C   Bb D C 

Until my shadow is carved into stone 

F Eb Ebmaj7 x4 

F                  Eb Ebmaj7  F         Eb  Ebmaj7     (F Eb Ebmaj7) x2 

She took the lower path         opting to wade through the pool 

F               Eb   Ebmaj7    F     Eb     Ebmaj7 (F Eb Ebmaj7) x2 

She felt more at home among the fishes seaweed and the slime 

G                  F  Fmaj7       G             F  Fmaj7   (G F Fmaj7) x2 

She saw a gleaming white seahorse straddled him, and joined the school 

G         F       Fmaj7   G            F  Fmaj7     (G F Fmaj7) x2 

Kingfisher scanning down took a dive the seahorse out of time 

C     Ab        C     Eb D C  Bb D C 

I will stare at the wall 

C        Ab                  Eb D C   Bb D C 

Until my shadow is carved into stone 

Jam over 

F Eb Ebmaj7 x8    

G F Fmaj7 x8  

F Eb Ebmaj7 x4    

G F Fmaj7 x4 

F                 Eb Ebmaj7  F             Eb  Ebmaj7    (F Eb Ebmaj7) x2 

The threat of time clip gain line few and far between blue earth moon 

F             Eb Ebmaj7 F             Eb Ebmaj7   (F Eb Ebmaj7) x2 

Imprinted, The Imprinted you will not forget where you were 

G                 F    Fmaj7         G          F  Fmaj7    (G F Fmaj7) x2 

The threat of time let’s drink wine, though everybody gets a different tune 

G              F  Fmaj7   G      F  Fmaj7     (G F Fmaj7) x2 

Later when the dust settles we ask, what became of her 

C     Ab        C     Eb D C  Bb D C 

I will stare at the wall 

C        Ab       Eb    D    C   Bb D C 

Until my shadow is carved into stone 

Eb    D    C 

Stare at the wall 

Bb      D C 

Shadow in stone

 

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