Tono: D
Dm
C
Bb
C
At night, this mindless army
Dm
C
Bb
C
Ranks unbroken by dissent
Dm
C
Bb
Is moved into action
Am
Bb
C
And their pace does not relent
Dm
C
Bb
C
In step, with great precision
Dm
C
Bb
C
These dancers of the night
Dm
C
Bb
Advance against the darkness -
Am
How implacable their might!
Bb
Eyes undulled by moon
Am
Bb
F
Their arms and legs akimbo
Am
Bb
They walk and live, hoping soon
Am
Bb
C
Dm
To surface from this limbo
Am
G
F
Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day
G
F
Em
Shall never know what's waiting mere insight away
F
Dm
Too far, too soon
Dm
C
Bb
Senses dimmed in semi-sentience
Dm
C
Bb
Only wheeling through this plane
Dm
C
Bb
Only seeing fragmented images
Am
Bb
C
Prematurely curtailed by the brain
Dm
C
Bb
But breathing, living, knowing
Dm
C
Bb
In some measure at least
Dm
C
Bb
The soul which roots the matter
Am
Of both Beauty and the Beast
Am
Bb
From what tooth or claw does murder spring
Am
Bb
F
From what flesh and blood does passion?
Am
Bb
Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing
Am
Bb
C
Dm
In deadly but delicate fashion
Am
G
F
And every range of feeling is there in the dream
G
F
Em
And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream
F
Dm
The senses sting
Am
G
F
And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls
G
F
Em
I only know the meaning of sight and that's all
F
E
Dm
D
And that's nothing
D
A
Dm
A
Am
Ab
The columns of the ni-ght ad-van-ce
D
A
Dm
A
Am
Ab
Infectiously, their cryp-tic dan-ce
D
A
Ab
Am
Ab
Gathers converts to the fold -
Ab
G
Ab
G
In time the whole raw world will pace these same steps
Ab
On into the same bitter end
Eb
Eb7
Ab
Db
Ab
)
Eb
Eb7
Ab
Fm
G
)
G7
Cm
Dm
F
Am
C
B
)
D
Am
Ab
G
Somnolent muster now the dancing dead
D
Am
Ab
G
Forsake the shelter of their secure beds
D
Am
Ab
G
Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread
Ab
G
As if the ground they tread would give way
C
E
Ab
G
Beneath the solemn weight of their conception
C
I'd search the hidden corners
E
Of all this world
A
D
Make reason of the sensory whorl
Dbm
Am
If I only had time
B
Am
But soon the dream is en-ded
Dm
G
F
D
)
Dm
D
C
Bb
)
D
C
D
Bb
C
)
Dm
C
Bb
C
Tonight, before you lay down
Dm
C
Bb
C
To the sweetness of your sleep
Dm
C
Bb
Do you question your surrender
A
Bb
C
To the drop from Lover's Leap
Dm
C
Bb
C
Or does the anaesthetic darkness
Dm
C
Bb
C
Take hold on its very own?
Dm
C
Bb
Does your body rise in service
A
Bb
C
With not one dissenting groan?
A
Bb
These waking dreams of life and death
A
In the mirror
Bb
F
Are twisted and buckled
A
Bb
Lashes flicker, a catch of breath
A
Bb
C
Dm
Skin whitening at the knuckles
Am
G
F
The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose
G
F
E
And though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse
F
D
Not to rise again
D
A
Dm
A
Am
Ab
In the chorus of the night-time I belong
D
A
Dm
A
Am
Ab
And I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song
D
A
Ab
G
Ab
G
And in the end I too must pay the cost of this life
Ab
G
If all is lost none is known
C
E
A
D
And how could we lose what we've never owned?
C
E
Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find
A
D
Unravel all the mysteries of mind
Dbm
If I only had time
Am
If I only had time
Bm
A
But soon my time is ended