G                            C                        G                          D       D7
I skimmed across black water without once submerging, onto the banks of an urban morning
     G                        C                         G         D   G  
That hungers the first light, much much more than, the mountains ever do.
    G                          C
And she like a ghost beside me goes down with the ease of a dolphin,
G              D                     D7
And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed.
    G                        C
For she is perfect creature, natural in every feature
    G        Em             D           G
And I am the geek with the alchemists' stone.

[Chorus]
Am          D                G Em   Am              D             G   G7            
For all of you who must disc-o-ver,……. for all who seek to understand,
Am         D                G    Em    F               C             D     D7
For having left the path of o-o-thers,…. you'll find a very special hand.

[Verse]
    G                       C                          G                   D
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time, and it is the o-o-only way.
    G                                C                             G          Em          
Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes, to ponder his death, 
D                   G
and his life eternally.

[Chorus]
    G                       C                          G                   D
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time, and it is the o-o-only way.
    G                                C                             G          Em          
Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes, to ponder his death, 
D                   G
and his life eternally.

[Instrumental] 
G  C  G  D    G  C  G  Em  D  G

[Outro]
     G                                       C
One bright blue rose outlives all those, two thousand years and still it goes,
     G        Em            D         G
To ponder his death and his life eternally.