Playing tips

See the Playing tips for "Giant Squid".

INTRO: Bass plays d, then { E G D } x3, but bass keeps playing d throughout the first part of verse.

E G D I want to paint you long poems full of fire,

E G D you who I do not know.

D (D7 D6 Dm) (these three chords in brackets are optional, I play them for my own pleasure) Now my mind is tested with love which

D twists and wavers from side to side and which

D some day soon you may see...

E G I want you to cascade

Dthrough ten thousand rainbows with me

E G D and dredge mountains from the sea:

E G D you who I now begin to know.

But emotion is pent up inside,too scared of dying again to liveand meanwhile I must endure yourred-copper hair screaming like a water-baby.Black eyes stare from my ceiling...you who I now truly know.

Long organ Solo and Bridge follow, ending up with come-back to the main E G D sequence x2 E etc.

Now I cannot see too clearlyand already my trellis stands bare.How can I break free of these overclinging arms which entwine and enfold me and reach to the clear blue sea?I want you to know, but how can I tell you? I want you to see but my own eyes are blind.

E G G# The Octopus now enfolds me,

A A# etc. to DI know you too well...