Cathedrals
From the album Through the Trees
[INTRO]
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[VERSE 1]
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The cathedral in Cologne looks like a spaceship
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like the hand of God falling from the sky
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A thousand stone-carved saints hang like icicles
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but icicles don't take a thousand years to die
[INTERLUDE]
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[VERSE 2]
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And everyone who's ever worked on this cathedral
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or even spent a moment walking by
C G
Everyone of us is swept away like breadcrumbs
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What comfort does it bring, soaring towers left behind?
[VERSE 3]
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There's a fiberglass castle in Wisconsin
D G
where kids race go-karts around a moat
C G
once we went up there in December
A D
when every waterslide and fudgeshop was closed
[INTERLUDE]
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[VERSE 4]
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Hoping to feel love under the icicles
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all we did was drink in an empty bar
C G
but stumbling drunk we crawled back to our motel room
A D C G
and I fell against you and felt your beating heart
[VERSE 5]
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Snow was slowly falling on the ice machine
D G
and the moon shone hazy through the pines
C G
but there were lounge chairs thrown into the empty pool
A D
and a dog chained to a tree barking at the sky
[OUTRO]
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