Tortoises All the Way Down
Tortoises All the Way Down

Tortoises All the Way Down chords by Mewithoutyou

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  • Verse 1
    Watchmen 
    w  their eyes closed, 

    ransom 
    and a scripture 
    by the 
    picture 
    of 
    your 
    face 

    Messages 
    the 
    rhymes chose, 

    blueprint 
    for 
    contri
    tion in 
    a cigarette 
    case 

    Verse 2
    Everybody 
    knows, 
    son 

    Everybody 
    knows 
    what 

    you've 
    done 

    Everybody 
    knows, son 

    Everybody 
    knows exactly 

    what 
    you've 
    done 

    Verse 3
    Charles 
    was 
    alive 
    then, 

    towering 
    like 

    Mountain 
    at 
    the silver 
    trumpet 
    blast 

    William 
    still 
    alive 
    till 

    when our altars 

    Are all 
    emptied 
    of 
    his offerings 

    to 
    the last 

    Verse 4
    Everybody 
    knows, son 

    Everybody 
    knows 
    just 
    what 

    you've 
    done 

    Everybody 
    knows, son 

    And 
    so 
    again 
    it 
    goes 
    you 
    can't 
    end 
    what 
    you've 

    begun

    Interlude 1



    Surely 
    as 
    the sun 
    Verse 5
    early 

    on 
    the east 
    side 
    comes 

    Be
    fore 
    my 
    sleep
    less 
    eyes 
    your 

    features 
    metamorphosize 

    Surely 
    as 
    the sun 
    early 

    on 
    the east 
    side 
    comes 

    If 
    only 
    you 
    had 
    known 
    how 

    soon 
    you'd 
    be on 
    your 
    own 

    How 
    sud
    denly 
    they'd 
    cast 

    the stone 

    Verse 6
    When the mouths 
    of praise 
    and 

    blame 
    start 
    to sound 
    the same 

    And 
    you've asked 
    they 
    please 

    not 
    come 
    back 
    around 

    & Yet 
    they 
    happen 
    by, 

    you can 
    offer 
    my 
    reply: 

    "There's 
    tortoises 
    all 
    the way 

    down." 

    Verse 7

    Since 
    the night 
    you 
    came 
    dressed 

    up 
    in 
    your right
    eous 
    name 

    All 
    you claim 
    to 
    see 
    doesn't 

    mean 
    thing 
    to 
    me 

    Surely 
    as 
    the sun 
    early 

    on the 
    east 
    side 
    comes 

    know 
    I'm 
    not 
    the 
    only 
    one 

    Verse 8
    Whose 
    blindfold-and-a-scale-ship 
    refused 

    refused refused 
    refused 
    refused 
    to sail 

    And 
    yet 
    failed 
    since 
    each 
    search 

    for solid 
    ground 

    You sing 
    to me 
    at 
    night 
    as 

    the moving 
    fin
    ger 
    writes 

    On 
    tortoises 
    all 
    the way 
    down 

    You 
    think 
    that 
    glass 
    of wine 

    could 
    cancel 
    half 
    a line? 

    But 
    it won't 
    wash 
    our 

    words 
    out 
    this 
    time 

    & I'm 
    not 
    the 
    only 
    one 
    who's 
    got 

    nowhere 
    to 
    run 

    Verse 9
    Cause everybody 

    knows, son 

    Everybody 
    knows just 

    what 
    you've 
    done 

    Everybody 
    knows, 
    son 

    Everybody 
    knows 
    what 
    you've 
    done 

    While 
    all 
    hiding 
    Verse 10
    inside 
    our 

    painting-of-a-house-hung-up-inside 

    That 
    That 
    That 
    That That That 
    That 

    same-painted-house-which-ever-implies-another-painted-house-inside 
    lives 

    Serpent-in-the-sky-lives! 

    Servants-of-the-least-high! 

    Most-tortoiseless 
    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    lives! 

    Would you 
    meet me 
    sometime 
    soon, 

    son, 
    down 
    by 
    the 
    riverside? 

    There's 
    room 
    enough 
    in 
    my 
    paradise 

    My 
    empty 
    little 
    mind 

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