[Intro]
B5

[Verse 1]
Ebm            Bbm
A metal man is ploughing my field
    Abm                Ebm
The leaves they are in laughter
  B              Ebm
A giddy haze has come to me
     Db                B
As I lead my donkey to water
Ebm              Bbm
Sits a sentinel, sticky and bound
Abm             Ebm
Watching our disaster
    B                Ebm
She says to me “What have you found
            Db                     Ab
That you’re happy to leave for the after?”

[Chorus]
Em          Abm   Ebm           F#
Sentinel of seas, keeper of the trees
D               F#m           B            D
Whisperer of the earth and divide precious moments
D              F#m         B          D
That passed us by will collide with a vengeance
B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B                       Emadd4/B
“What better dreams and subtler seams
B                     Emadd4/B
What gentleness, what fervour?
B                             Emadd4/B
What temple to love could you build with your greed
B                                  Emadd4/B
That you’re happy to leave for the after?”

[Instrumental]
B5

[Verse 2]
Abm                    Ebm
The donkey shivers and snorts impatient
    Dbm               Abm
Her voice lost in the halter
         E                  Abm
“I build houses of straw to burn in me
    Gb                    E
And carve only ash for my altar
Abm                   Ebm
Dreams among insects, ripples and gold
Dbm                    Abm
Contagion to addle the sleeper
         E                Abm
When the time it comes to suffer my bones
         Gb                 Db
What haven’t I left for the after?”

[Chorus]
A           Dbm   Abm           B
Sentinel of seas, keeper of the trees
D                F#m          B            D
Whisperer of the earth and divide precious moments
D              F#m         B          D
That passed us by will collide with a vengeance

[Bridge]
D        Bm F#m           C
Precious moments will collide
         D             B
Will collide, will collide

[Chorus]
B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B                       Emadd4/B
“What better dreams and subtler seams
B                     Emadd4/B
What gentleness, what fervour?
     B                        Emadd4/B
What temple to love could you build with your greed
            B                      Emadd4/B
That you’re happy to leave for the after?”
B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B

B   Emadd4/B   B   Emadd4/B


[Outro]
B5