Standard (EADGBE)
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Intro
There once was a note, pure and easy
Playing so free like a breath, rippling by
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The note is eternal, I hear it, it sees me,
Forever we blend as, forever we die
Chorus
I listened and I heard music in a word,
and words when you played your guitar
The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering
And a child flew past me riding in a star
As people assemble, civilization
Is trying to find a new way to die
But killing is really merely scene changer
All men are bored with other men's lives
[repeat chorus]
Gas on the hillside, oil in the teacup
Watch all the chords of life lose their joy
Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness
The note that began all can also destroy.
We all know success when we all find our own dream
And our love is enough to knock down any wall
And the future's been seen as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all
Solo
Chorus
[verse from demo]
[Today is the day when sound curdles mountains
Flowing and blowing each man it its wake
Destroying itself in the end with vibration
There's nothing on earth its challenge can take
Excepting one note]