C/G E Came up from the ship Am On marble steps under cedars C/G E To the studded gate Am The ermite won't open Came up from the sea Heavy with weeping Out of swartest night Stretched over wretched men C/G E Twlight leaves, full of voices Am F Life one lengthening day C/G E Am In purple valleys, on the estuary Twilight leaves, full of voices Life one lengthening day In purple valleys, on the estuary Came out under the stars A soul stained with recent tears And sacred scars Cast in white stone Came up for milk and figs Ivory dipped in silver And the red and the grey Of iron in blood Rust flour for black bread The orchard lies untended In chains of bone Enough of weeping Twilight leaves... till end Spoken part over the last two choruses: This tower is our resistance Of sovereign right to persistance Against all conditioned, temporal utility The Am is frequently an Asus4 x02230, either copy the recording or play to taste. He plays a little bit for the F in the chorus, you just take the barre off and put it on again so it goes: 133211, 133200, 133211