Lotus Gait Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]I have this recurring
nightmare:
Flailing pigeon, her broken feet
Frozen solid to the freezing
pavement.
I turn away as if I do not see.
I have this childhood [G]memory
[F]Of my old man screaming fro[Am]m the
driver's [F]seat[G][Am]
To turn away from an unfolding horror,
[G][F]
But he could [Am]not undo what
I had [F]seen.[G]
[F]We never spoke of it again.
Two more hapless citizens of
[Am]

[Verse 2]
The new post-traumatic stress stress
worldwide [G]disorder.[F]
A stock[Am]holm syndrome fifth estate,
[F]Des[G]per[Am]ate to batten
down the mounting horrors
[G]And[F] shuffle on in a[Am]
global lotus [F]gait.[G]
[Am]Content to marinate

[Verse 3]
[G]in the plasma glow
of [D]the[Dm][Am][G]
Home entertain[C]ment prison
[D]s we[Dm][Am][G]
Commune be[F]fore [G]like
dime-store [Em]shrines.
[D]shrines.[Am][G]
Are [F]these but [G]votive lives?
[Am]It's a str[C]angled,
twisted [D]truss[Dm][Am]
[G]That shores-up each [Em]each [E]of [Am]us.
Anything [C]to dull [Dm]the pain[Am]
Of [G]a splintered lo[E]tus [Am]gait.

[Verse 4]
As for me [Am]a filigree of psychic
police [G]tape[F]
Tends to cor[Am]don-off the the
darker [F]scenes.[G][Am]
But the wandering mind
stumbles through [B]it[F]
[E]And [Am]relives them all eventually.
[F]

[Verse 5]
[G]Pri[F]es [Em]open w[C]ide y[G]our eyes[F]
and shines [Em]a pai[G]nful lig[Am]ht[G]
On the guilt, [C]the fear,
[Dm]the shame.[Am][G][Em][G]
[Am]The courage [C]never [D]came[Am][G]
From the [F]plasma [Dm]glow of [Am]the[G]
Home enter[Dm]tainment [G]prisons [Am]we[G]
Cling [F]to [Am]like [Dm]dime-store [Am]shrines.
[G]shrines.[Am][G]
Are [F]these but [G]votive [Am]lives?[G]
Conservative at [D]heart.
[Am]A co[G]n fo[Em]rmis[G]t f[Em]rom[G]
[Dm]the start.[Am][G]
[Em]A stockholm syndrome[G]
fifth [C]es [Dm]tate.[Am][G]
[Am]A staggeri[F]ng lotus g[G]ait.[Am]
It's [C]a strangled,
twisted [D]truss[G][Am]
[G]That shores-up each [Em]each
of [G]us.[Am]
Anything [C]to dull [D]the pain[Am]
Of a [G]self-inflicted,
crippling [E]crippling lotus gait.