To Ascend(Chords)

	        Intro: E  G#m  E  G#m  
        E  G#m  F# 

         E 
Were you drifting 
     G#m        
On a strange tide? 
E 
Collecting visions 
G#m 
From the other side? 
               E 
Caught between day and night 
         G#m 
You were stealing moments past hours 
F# 
Of your life 

And balancing on 
              E 
The edge of a knife 
     G#m                E 
Memories of once longer days 
              G#m 
They keep on flooding back 
    E 
The adventurous times when we 
G#m 
Traveled life's road 
               F# 
Though we were often blind 
           C#m 
But with a lot more heart 
    E              F# 
And for each other 
           B 
Taking the time 
     Em 
On a wing and a prayer 
  B                   E 
A wounded bird in the hand 
                     F# 
With the eyes of a child 
     B         E 
Come to understand 
                  F# 
I will open the book 
           B 
Raise the pen 
         E 
Let it reinvent 
    B 
My life again 
                   F# 
Take me from where I am 

As a freed bird 
E 
Flies from the hand 
               F# 
To ascend, to ascend 

( E  G#m  E  G#m ) 

         E 
Were you catching 
                  G#m 
The last train to nowhere? 
E 
Playing out scenes 
   G#m 
Of dark desert days? 
       E 
Put it behind you now 
G#m                                F# 
Call out those bleak shadows from your mind 

And never again 
                 E  
Slip through the cracks 
    G#m                  E 
Memories of once longer days 
                      G#m 
They keep on flooding back 
       E 
The adventurous times when we 
G#m 
Traveled life's road 
               F# 
Though we were often blind 
           C#m 
But with a lot more heart 
    E               F# 
And for each other 
           B 
Taking the time  
     Em 
On a wing and a prayer 
         B            E 
A wounded bird in the hand 
                   F# 
With the eyes of a child 
     B          E 
Come to understand 
                F# 
I will open the book 
          B 
Raise the pen 
        E 
Let it reinvent 
   B 
My life again 
                     F# 
Take me from where I am 

As a freed bird 
E 
Flies from the hand 
                 B 
To ascend, to ascend
	        

Written by Jon Davison/Alan White