Closer to Zen

After Closer to Fine by Emily Saliers (lyrics only)

	G	Am	C
I'm try	ing to tell you some	thing about our lives.

	G	Am	C
To	show you why we're al	ways intertwined.

	Am	C
And the	hardest thing I ever had	to do.

	Am	C
Was to	let you walk away from me	on Mu.

	G	C
And when we saw At	lantis fall.

G Am C

Well our souls have a bo nd that's un breakable.

G Am C

But we've screwed it up for several thousand years.

Am C

Every ti me we get together there's dis aster.

Am C

And ev ery life the cycle just turns faster.

G

But still we fall in love again.

D

We were burned once as Trojans,

C G

And poi soned as Ro mans,

D

It would have worked in Egypt,

C G

Exc ept for those omens . . .

Am C

We sp end the better part of our exis tance

G

Waiting for the axe to fall,

Am C

And ea ch time through I won der

G

If we really understand at all.

G Am C

When the English took you off to fight their war.

G Am C

You know I mourned you like a thousand times before.

Am C

But my tears couldn't stop the shells from falling.

Am C

When you died I felt your soul calling.

G

And so we go around once more.

D

We were starving as pilgrims,

C G

We dro wned on Ti tanic,

D

In 1812 your ship went down,

C G

Some where in the Atlantic.

Am C

I sp end the better part of my exis tance

G

Waiting for the axe to fall,

Am C

And ea ch time through I won der

G

If I really understand at all.

G Am C

And now I have found you once again.

G Am C

We live on a space ship co lony

Am C

In the year of 20 10.

Am C

And we' re fighting for survival

C

With the stars as our re ward.

Am

And it was all so perfect,

C

'til I started to get bo red.

G

Are we going to go around again?

	D
We're cons	tantly striving

	C	G
To	reach one ano	ther.

	D
And tou	ugh it never works out.

	C	G
I guess	we will dis	cover

	D
There's mo	re than one question

	C
For the an	swer

	G
That this love is forever	more.

	D
And tho	ugh we'll never make it

	C
Through this life	time,

	G
At least this time we know the	score.

D

For all that we've been through

C G

We're fin ally see ing

D

The endless progression

C G

That keeps us from being

D C

There's al ways a time of perfect hap piness

G

Right before the axe will fall.

D C

And th is time I'm quite su re,

G

That I don't understand at all

January 27, 2000

For someone who said to me in all seriousness, "Don't worry hon, we'll work it out in the next life."

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