Gestalt Of Original Pain

     Am
It's hard to maintain
         G                   C    F
A simple thought through the day
      F             Am
Every voice its own planet
       G             F
And my mind tends to gravitate
     Am                      G            C    F
I am pushed I am pulled into every which way
   Am          G
Oh life is the great
       C
Is the great
       F
Is the greatest
Am x8
Strain

[Verse 2]
      Am
I was sleeping fitfully
              G          C      F
Troubled by a disjointed dream
                F          Am
One in which my past was a house
       G                      F
All my failures were books to read
   F          Am           Am
I awoke to my cellphone convulsing
     G               C            F
Your name across the crystal screen
   Am             G
Oh life does the strange
         C
Does the strange
         F         Am x8
Does the strangest things

[Verse 3]
         Am
You were sounding okay
                 G            C    F
Mistaken for the clinically insane
         F           Am
Saying a man down in Texas
         G             F
Was just waiting to communicate
       Am               Am          G
That I ought to open my mind to his wisdom
           C    F
And let it radiate
          Am        G
Oh let it wash over me
       C
Let it sing
       F
Let it say

[Bridge]
C                                             F             Am
Give yourself a million years to just wake up in the morning
    Dm                                                G
And give yourself a million more then if you're still tired
         Am
There is nothing
         G
There is nothing
         C           F
There is nothing but time
           Dm
We are not sick you and I
            G7
Don't you listen to lies

[Instrumental]
Am | Am | G | C | F | F | F | C | G | Am x8

[Verse 4]
     Am
It's hard to explain
            G             C    F
But all the forms are contained
         F               Am        G
When you scratch out the faces and names
        F
In your memory
           Am               Am
Close your eyes against the light
          G          C    F
Still the pattern remains
   Am             G
It remains in its place
        C         F
Like an obstinate stain
   G7               Am
Gestalt of original pain