Book Of Shallows

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Cm Ab/C Cm7 Fm  Cm Ab/C Ab Eb Bb Db

[Verse 1]
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What if I would script a dream? And if I'd let you in?
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I'd be your door out of a stark truth...

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Leave a stark reality, an arrant giveness
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I'd make you fall to be there for you

[Pre-Chorus 1]
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        Let Morpheus commit his spark
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To a stray soul wandering
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Errant in the dark

[Chorus]
            Fm
Chase your dream!
              Db
If you don't mind don't be astounded
        Ab          Eb
By the things they make you do
      Cm         Db
For amusement's sake

            Fm
Chase your dream!
      Eb       Db
When all comes breaking down around it
       Ab        Eb      Bb
What a day for a pastel dream
        Fm        Eb
That's coming to life...

[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
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Beautiful in colour, united in their creed
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Reasonable people dreaming ordinary dreams

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Rise above confusion, and leverage the weak
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Dive into the shuffle, and then tap into the freak show

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Ab Eb/G Ab  Eb/G Ab  Eb5 Bb F/A Bb F/A Bb
        And Morpheus commit his spark
Eb/G  Ab   Eb/G Ab  Eb/G
To a plain soul wandering
Ab Eb5 Bb     F/A  Bb
Errant in the dark

[Chorus]
            Fm
Chase your dream!
              Db
If you don't mind don't be astounded
        Ab          Eb
By the things they make you do
      Cm         Db
For amusement's sake

            Fm
Chase your dream!
      Eb       Db
When all comes breaking down around it
       Ab        Eb      Bb
What a day for a pastel dream
        Fm        Eb
That's coming to life...

[Bridge 1]
Am       G
May it charm the living
Bb       Gm
May it ease misgiving

Dm                          A5 Ab5 Dm A5 Ab5 Dm A5 Ab5 A5 Eb
Intoxicating, dazing rapture
Dm                                A5 Ab5 D5 A5 Ab5 D5 A5 Ab5 A5 Eb
Of the shallow, dazed and captured
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Say you wanna be now, sneak into their dream now,
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Suck up to their love, you're the master of their freakshow
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Give into temptation, seek and bring salvation,
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Mine now, Suburbia! tomorrow it's the nation

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Wait for a savior rising from the tranquil sea
Bb                             Gm
The book of shallows bringing forth a common dream

[Bridge 2]
Dm
Going with the grain, numb the pain, we are common sense
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Knock them down a peg, make them beg for deliverance
Dm
Rapture of the deep, they believe, take a deep bow
                A5  Ab5 Dm        A5 Ab5 Dm    A5 Ab5 A5 Eb
Give them what they need now, mingle with the creep show

Dm
Going with the grain, numb the pain, we are common sense
                A5 Ab5 Dm        A5 Ab5 Dm A5 Ab5 A5 Eb
Knock them down a peg, make them beg for deliverance
Dm
Rapture of the deep, they believe, take a deep bow
                A5  Ab5 Dm        A5 Ab5 Dm    A5 Ab5 A5 Eb
Give them what they need now, mingle with the creep show

Am                        G
Wait for a savior rising from the tranquil sea
Dm                             C
The book of shallows bringing forth a common dream

Ab
Let Morpheus commit his spark
Bb
To a stray soul wandering in the dark

[Chorus]
            Fm
Chase your dream!
              Db
If you don't mind don't be astounded
        Ab          Eb
By the things they make you do
      Cm         Db
For amusement's sake

            Fm
Chase your dream!
      Eb       Db
When all comes breaking down around it
       Ab        Eb      Bb
What a day for a pastel dream
        Fm        Eb
That's coming to life...

            Fm
Chase your dream!
              Db
If you don't mind don't be astounded
        Ab          Eb
By the things they make you do
      Cm         Db
For amusement's sake

            Fm
Chase your dream!
      Eb       Db
When all comes breaking down around it
       Ab        Eb      Bb
What a day for a pastel dream
        Fm        Eb
That's coming to life...

       Ab        Eb      Bb
What a day for a pastel dream
        Fm        Eb    Fm
That's goin' to plan