[Intro] [fingerpicked acoustic guitar, syncopated folk pattern] [clean electric guitar enters with melodic slide] [Verse 1] [baritone male vocals] The pendulum swings But the gears are all dry A trick of the light and the blink of an eye [bass guitar enters] We're chasing the circle and calling it a line Building a cage out of seconds and signs But the ink hasn't dried on the page of the past And the future's a shadow that's already cast [kick drum and snare enter] [Chorus] [full band, steady 4/4 backbeat] It's a beautiful lie, the tick and the tock The ocean don't care for the hands on the clock The beginning is hidden inside of the end Around every corner you meet yourself again It's not a river flowing away to the sea It's the whole map unfolding eternally [Verse 2] [drums drop out, acoustic guitar and bass continue] You're a child in the garden, the dust and the earth You're the wood in the forest, the fire to burn And there's no use to be and there's no yet to come Just the echo of rhythm, the skin of a drum The star that you see might have died long ago But it's burning right here in the night's steady glow [drums re-enter] [Chorus] [full band, increased intensity] Break the glass, let the minutes spill out on the floor There isn't a before or an after anymore Just a vast, frozen music, a landscape of now The wind is a ghost and the why is the how It's a beautiful lie, the tick and the tock The ocean don't care for the hands on the clock The beginning is hidden inside of the end Around every corner you meet yourself again It's not a river flowing away to the sea It's the whole map unfolding eternally [Outro] [acoustic guitar and bass only] Fold the map, close your eyes The sun doesn't set, it's just the world spinning 'round in its own sweet time It's all happening It's all now [final acoustic guitar strum]
