The One True Colour

C               Dm                         Am
As one child is taught red on his mother's knee
             F
The one true colour
                     C                    Dm
A neighbor is taught blue on his mother's knee
             Am
The one true colour
       F
With a fervour inherited
C          Dm
It will be subsequently delivered
Am                F
Ignore the spectrum


[Chorus]
             Am
Dear whom it may concern
F                             C
I feel as though I'm about to crash and burn
G                               Am
I think I'm falling and there's no return
         F                    C           G
But I've no idea to whom this may concern

G                          Am
I'm looking out at all the stars and I learn
F                          C
There's no one up above to hear me yearn
    G
I'm on my own


[Verse]
C         Dm                Am
In the arena of the endless unknown
             F
Do not stage theatre
             C                   Dm
Do not stage theatre and call it truth
            Am
And call it truth

                      F                          C
And when one child is taught red on his mother's knee
           Dm
It must be subsequently delivered
     Am                F
With all of the spectrum


[Chorus]
             Am
Dear whom it may concern
F                             C
I feel as though I'm about to crash and burn
G                               Am
I think I'm falling and there's no return
         F                    C           G
But I've no idea to whom this may concern
G                          Am
I'm looking out at all the stars and I learn
F                          C
There's no one up above to hear me yearn
    G
I'm on my own


[Interlude]
Am          F                         C              Dm
Someone has whipped the carpet from beneath my feet
                     Am        F
Someone upturned the furniture in my mind


[Bridge]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

[Spoken]
N.C.
(To dissect is to broaden the adventure

And enrich one's tenure

So do not blunt the surgeon's knife)

[Bridge]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

[Spoken]
N.C.
(To dissect is to broaden the adventure

And enrich one's tenure

So do not blunt the surgeon's knife)

[Interlude]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark


[Outro]
Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

Am       F
But, oh, how rich the soil
C   Dm
How wondrous the upheaval
Am             A#
It's time to embark

C                        Dm
Oh, there's so much to explore
                     Am
There's so much to absorb
             F
And then the atoms that you borrowed
C          Dm                 Am        F
They are returned to the cosmos

C                    Dm
There's so much to explore
                     Am
There's so much to absorb
             F
And then the atoms that you borrowed
C           Dm                F
They are returned when you're...