Riff:
e|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------|
B|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------|
G|--2-4---0-2-|------------|------------|----------0-|----0-----0-|----0-|
D|--2-2---2-2-|--4-5---5-4-|--4-2---2-1-|--1-4---4-4-|--1-1---2-2-|--2-2-|
A|--–---------|--2-2---2-3-|--3-3---3-3-|--2-2---2---|--2-----2---|--2---|
E|0---–-0-----|0-----0-----|0-----0-----|0-----0-----|0-----0-----|0-----|
(This riff is played
1. as intro,
2. as outro, and
3. during the A-Parts.
The chords I provided for the A-Parts are a simplified alternative to playing the riff.)
B7sus4/E: 022202
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[A-Part 1]
Em B7sus4/E
Oh, Father Time
Am/E
Grow me, change me
B7/E Em
Age and shed the infant skin that was mine
B7sus4/E
Did you hear the wind
Am/E B7/E
Howling, growling? She knows something
Em
She is older than I
[B-Part 1]
B Bm Em
Progress is slow on this heart that I grow
Bm A# Am Em
I'll love a lot next year
[A-Part 2]
Em B7sus4/E
Beat to the drum
Am/E B7/E
Constant motion, vessels pulsing
Em
Every second we die
B7sus4/E
Hands to the sun
Am/E B7/E
Burning, breathing, glowing, healing
Em
Sustenance of the sky
[C-Part 1]
Bm B C G
Wholemeal and coal are better for the soul
B7 Em
But I believe in blood and lust
[A-Part 3]
Em B7sus4/E
Oh, Father Time
Am/E B7/E
Rock me gently, I'm not ready
Em
Can't we stay for a while?
B7sus4/E
And listen to the wind
Am/E B7/E
Melody of melancholy
Em
She's a lullaby
[B-Part 2]
B Bm Em
But send me to sleep and my mother she will weep
Bm A# Am Em
Alma Mater I've not met
[C-Part 2]
Bm B C G
And here's to the womb and the human catacomb
B7 Em
I am not a child quite yet
G B7 Em
No, I am not a child quite yet
Tabs