D               D7            G            D
Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
      G          D        A
It is older than Rome and all of this sorrow
        D       D7           G         D
See the new pyramids down in old Manhattan
         G         D                     A
From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending
         Bm                D
Heard it loud and long the river's Om
     G                A
Time marching on to a madman's drum


[Instrumental Break 1]
D D7 G D G D A


[Verse 2]
         D               D7              G         D
Don't forget what you've learned all you give is returned
       G            D             A
And if life seems absurd what you need is some laughter
      D         D7          G            D
And a season to sleep and a place to get clean
      G       D              A
Maybe Los Angeles, somewhere no one's expecting


[Chorus 1]
     G
On a detox walk through a Glendale Park over sidewalk chalk
                             D
Someone wrote in red, "start over"
     G
So I muffled my scream on an Oxnard beach
        F#m               Bm          A
Full of fever dreams that scare you sober
A
Into saltless dinners


[Instrumental Break 2]
D D7 G D G D A


[Verse 3]
         D              D7              G              D
Take the fruit from the tree, break the skin with your teeth
      G          D           A
Is it bitter or sweet? All depends on your timing
       D          D7              G             D
Like a meeting of chance with the train station glance
     G             D         A
Many lifetimes had past in a instant reminded


[Chorus 2]
     G
Of a millstone house in a seaside town
                                      D
When your heart gave out in a mission bed
G
So your wife gave birth to a funeral dirge
       F#m                 Bm        A
As you woke up purged as a wailing infant
A
In Krug Thep, Thailand


[Instrumental Break 3]
D D7 G D G D A
D D7 G D G D A
Bm D G A


[Outro]
         D               D7            G            D
Hear the chimes, did you know that the wind when it blows
      G          D            A
It is older than Rome and our joy and our sorrow