to drain
a tide
of midnight hour
epiphanies
with hesitating beauty sleep
cook up your eyes with hypnogogic steam
and e’er heroic cherubim

for every time the clock
ticks a broken tock
will there be a Stanislav?
an Arkhipov, Peroots?
a state-of-head in suits
to muzzle the dogs?

strange (hands all tied down a shiver spine)
delight (rang my neck like a chicken rhyme)
to falsify
the appetite
for chivalry and courage, ripe
would it amount to easy listening
to never hear and never scream?

for everytime the talk
clicks a broken clock
will there be a Stanislav?
an Arkhipov, Peroots?
an un-assassinated, fool-proof,
cool head in a code red?
sure, sure. I’m sure.

blur sky, white edge
moonrise, swan wedge
strange dove, flail safe
break the arrows, why wait?

for any time the clock
ticks a broken tock
will there be a Stanislov?
an Arkhipov, Peroots?
a state of head in suits
to muzzle the dogs?

[A intro/outro]
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---6---6-------------------------  
-----0-----0---0-----------------  
-4-------0-----------------------  
-------------4-------------------  

[B verse]
-0---------0-0--0-0--------------  
-0---------2-3--0-0--------------  
-2---------1-2--0-1--------------  
-0--------------1-0--------------  
-0--------------1-2--------------  
---------------------------------  

[C connecting]
------0----------------------  
----8-0----------------------  
---7--0----------------------  
--7--------------------------  
-0---------------------------  
-----------------------------  

[D chorus]
-0-------0-------0--0----0-------  
-3----2--2-------2--4----3-------  
-2----1--2-------2--4----4-------  
-0-------2--x2---0--4----3-------  
---------0----------6----5-------  
-2(4)-1----------2---------------  

[A intro/outro]

[B verse ]

[C connecting]

[D chorus]

[A intro/outro]

[E bridge]
--0--0--0--0---------------------  
--2--3--5--7---------------------  
--2--3--5--7---------------------  
--0--0--0--0----x2---------------  
---------------------------------  
--2--3--5--7---------------------

[F key-change chorus x2]
-0------------------0----0-------  
-8----10-7---7------5----5-------  
-7----9--6---7------4----4-------  
-0-----------7--x2--0----0-------  
---------------------------------  
-7(8)-9--6---5(7)-----4----3-----  

[A intro/outro]