lThe 🕴️Shadow and The⚓ Anchor

[Intro] [acoustic guitar strumming, light percussion] (Whoa-oh-oh-oh) [Verse 1] [acoustic guitar, bass, and light drums] The hollow in the tides upon the coast Whispers truths the turning calendar has lost You trace the lines of a forgotten road Where grace was sought and carried like a load [electric guitar swells] Like a load Like a load [Verse 2] They built their tower on a shifting sand A velvet cage across a willing land And every dawn the shepherd sees the gate Yet finds the lock rusted by the false covenant and bitter hate [drums intensify] Bitter hate [Chorus] [full band, driving rhythm] Oh, the color of the answer is just gray, gray Fading out across the ocean of the day We stood too close to hear the first unspoken word Where all the hopeful reasons fell and spun around, round [Verse 3] [acoustic guitar and violin] The cedar chest is full of brittle schemes The ghost of yesterday still floods my lonely dreams My lonely dreams Did we trade the wildfire for the gentle glow And watch the tide retrieve the things we thought we'd know [Bridge] [violin melody, sustained electric guitar notes] Across the ridge where ancient cedars stand In the hollows of a lonely holy land Holy land The boy with the clean hands and the bright new tie Was sending back the sunrise to the sky [Chorus] [full band, layered vocal harmonies] But the river only flows in one direction, one direction Past the monuments of sorrow and protection I saw the vision on the altar, broke and the stories that the broken poets told Bits of geometry of pain we cannot break [Outro] [acoustic guitar strumming, violin fades] (Whoa-oh-oh-oh) Again the web's not this go (Whoa-oh-oh-oh) Again the web's not this go [final acoustic guitar chord]