South of the Sahara

C#m                         A
South of the Sahara, aching heart
                    E                   G#m
is that where you'd guess all astronomy starts?
                   C#m               A
we could have more knowledge than we dream
              E                             G#m
in heaven and earth, nothing's less than it seems
B                 C#m           A
this could be the circle of the stones
                E                      G#m
the turn of the card or the rolling of bones
B                 C#m             A
this could be the lay line on the land
                 E                        G#m
the past and the future that cross in our hands
B                    C#m
this could close the circle double star that hides itself
B                      E     A          E
white dwarf behind the sun … oh, Sirius
C#m                           B      E      A     E  F  F#  G#
the things we can't explain … remain … mysterious.


             C#m           A
South of the Sahara, Timbuktu
              E                         G#m
the back of beyond and the shock of the new
B                 C#m                A
this could be the strangest thing of all
            E                            G#m
the body of science with its back to the wall,
B            C#m                   A#m          F#
South of the Sahara distant men of logic try to trace
                 C#m                    F
the shape of the Bortex, the pattern of space
                    A#m          F#
the same as that of atoms in the mind
            C#m                         F#
wherever we look it's ourselves that we find
    G#          A#m
the sand of the Sahara double star that hides itself
      G#               C#    G#         F#  C#
white dwarf behind the sun … oh, Sirius
    A#m                       G#     C#     F#    C#  D  D#   F
the things we can't explain … remain … mysterious.


                  A#m          F#
The people of the Dogon always knew
           C#                   Fm
the extraterrestrials' heavenly view
G#             A#m              F#
stars that dog our passage holy suns
         C#                      Fm
over the centuries, these have become
                  A#m       C#m
the legend of the Dogon ... how do you explain it?
E                              A    E  F F#  G# (X2)
how do you begin to explain it all?


                C#m             A
We could be the lay line on the land
          E                         G#m
invisible shifts in the hourglass's sand
B                  C#m               A
we could have more knowledge than we dream
              E                           G#m
in heaven and earth nothing's all that it seems
                C#m   G#m  B  C#m  G#m  B  C#m
we could be eternal … etc.