South Of The Sahara(Chords)

	        

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.