The purpose of Basement Songs is to allow our fans to play and sing along with Arthur's Concert for Iceland songs. We encourage you to send any recordings of your own renditions to carltonfarthington@gmail.com or share them with us (and the world!) through social media. Who knows, maybe one you could be up on stage with Arthur White!
DMaj7 AMaj7
Iceland, you are melting in the teardrops of an ocean
DMaj7 AMaj7
Volcanic eruptions throwing up their rocks and lave
Am7 GMaj7
How can I just stand here in my monogrammed pajamas
FMaj7 GMaj7
While they witness this apocalyptic panorama
Fm7 G
(And) through the island's icy floor
Fm7 G F flat5 w5 G F flat5 w5 G
Spy frozen shapes of dinosaurs
DMaj7 AMaj7
Lately, I've been breaking up the pavement in my basement
DMaj7 AMaj7
Finding that it's futile to ignore life's pressing questions
Am7 GMaj7
How can I just sit here with my rocks glass and my slippers
FMaj7 GMaj7
When we could be peering over the volcano's lip where
Fm7 G
You would see the reason for
Fm7 G
My belief in dinosaurs
F flat5 w5 G
And I'm waiting on the signs to align, tell me will someone
F flat5 w5 G
Tell me what they gonna find by the light of the midnight sun?
G C Em D
Why would you want to get out of this place?
G C Em D
Would you ever believe it's a dinosaur?
G C Em D
One thing I wonder is what it will take
G C D
To remember the feelings we
Thought that maybe we were above
Feelings of failure and of love
Feeling the danger, all alone like a stranger
On a planet that was gathering snow
DMaj7 #11 w5 AMaj7 (2x); Am7, GMaj7, FMaj7, GMaj7
Iceland!
Fm11
By the light of the streams of lava
F#m11 Gm13 Am9
Can we dream of our home?
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