The Center of the World Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][G][C][Am][G]
[Em][G][C][G]

[Verse 1]
At the [G]center
of the [Bm]world
There is a statue of a [G]girl[Am]
She is standing near a [C]well
With a [D]bucket bare and [G]dry

[Verse 2]
I went and [G]looked her in the eye[Bm]s
And she turned me into [Am]sand
This clumsy form that I despise
[C]It scattered eas[D]y in her han[G]d

[Verse 3]
And it came to [G]rest upon a [Bm]beach
With a million others [Am]there
We sat and waited for the sea
[C]To stretch out so that we [D]could disappear

[Verse 4]
[G]Into the endlessness of blu[Bm]e
Into the horror of the [Am]truth
You see, [A]we are far less
[Am]than we [C]knew
Yeah, we are [D]far less than we knew
[Em]

[Verse 5]
But we knew what we could [C]taste
Girls found honey to drench our [Em]hands
The men cut marble to mark our [B]graves
Said we'll need something to [G]remind us

[Verse 6]
[G]Of all the sweetness that [Bm]has
passed through [B]us
(Fresh sangria and [Bm]lem on tea)
[B]The priests dressed children for a [A]choir
[Em](White-robed small voices praise Him)

[Verse 7]
But found no joy in what was [B]sung
The fu[C]neral [D]had [G]begun in
the middle of the [Bm]day
When you drive home to your [Am]place
From that job that makes you [C]sleep

[Verse 8]
Back to the thought[D]s
that keep you [G]awake
Long after night has come to [Bm]claim
Any light that still [Am]remains
In the corner of the [C]frame
That you [D]put around her face
[G]

[Verse 9]
Two [Bm]pills just weren't enough
[Am]The alarm clock is going off but
you are not waking up
This isn't hap[C]pening,
happening happening
Happening, [D]happening

[Outro 1]
It is
[G]