Sleeping at Last – Build (Guitar)

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[Intro] A C#m B A C#m B [Verse 1]
 A
Out there, blink and you’ll miss it

        Amaj7                               B
Is the promised land or at least somewhere different

 A
Pressed up to the glass to see it

      Amaj7          B
But I get distracted by my reflection

 E                      Amaj7
Like a live wire, hope flickers

 C#m                        B
Against the pitch black in rich contrast

 E                   A
Hypnotized by the horizon

 B
I hold out my hand
[Pre-Chorus]
 A                                 E
I just want to build some kind of bridge

              F#m             A
To where the source material lives

                            E
I want to build, brick by brick

            F#m
Until I’m changed
[Chorus]
      A
For a minute I’ll be endless

      C#m            B
For a minute I’ll be brave

      A
For a minute I’ll make sense of

 C#m         B
All of my mistakes
[Verse 2]
A
I’ve poured over the blueprints

C#m                B
I’ve stuck to the plan

A
Even a little ahead of schedule

          C#m              B
But still missing parts of who I am

 E/Ab           A
An active imagination

 C#m            B
Fills the empty space

 E/Ab               A
The pencil reaches wide

          C#m                        B
But like anything held too tight, it breaks
[Pre-Chorus]
 A                               E
I just want to make some kind of mark

          F#m                 A
Permanent ink right from the start

          E
I want to draw, line by line

           F#m
Until I’m changed

A                                 E
I just want to build some kind of bridge

              F#m             A
To where the source material lives

                           E
I want to build, brick by brick

          F#m
Until I’m changed
[Chorus]
      A
For a minute I’ll be endless

       C#m            B
For a minute I’ll be brave

      A
For a minute I’ll make sense of

 C#m         B
All of my mistakes

      G#m            A
For a minute I’ll be endless

      C#m            B/Eb  B
For a minute I’ll be home

      E                 A
For a minute I’ll make something

      C#m            B
I’ll forever call my own
[Outro]
A
I’ll always wrestle with patience

C#m                B
The dissonance of purgatory

         A
But I’ll try to make use of the tension

        C#m               B
In this first and second act of my story