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Truth Is A Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding) by Josh Ritter
Truth Is A Dimension (Both Invisible and Blinding)
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
A D
I got off the highway north of Desert Canyon Station
A E
I was driving with my headlights off, just stars for navigation
A D
My telescope, my notes and my ham sandwiches and coffee
A E
Sometimes you must be all alone and there ain't no way to not be
F#m D
I was thinking about Tonya, how things had rearranged
A E
And everything had come full circle, we were back to being strangers
F#m D
She was with a man named Neil now, that's all I knew about him
A E
But I was happy she was happy, real happy that she'd found him
A D A E
[Verse 2]
A D
It was just after 11 when I pulled off at the lookout
A E
The parking lot was empty though the air still smelled like cookouts
A D
And yes I admit I toked one, that doesn't change what happened
A E
Anyway you're not my parents, and it really helps my mapping
F#m D
Of the System 611, a Magellanic cluster
A E
I'd been watching for a while, I got my telescope adjusted
F#m D
And I turned it toward an unassuming patch of dusty sky
A E
That was really fifty million stars a billion lightyears wide
A D A E
[Verse 3]
A D
And then all at once it felt as if time had been suspended
A E
And a vision poured into me like a bottle'd been upended
A D
I was filled with revelation both infinite and finite
A E
That filtered down my telescope encoded in the starlight
F#m D
It said, "Truth is not immutable, itself is a dimension
A E
Truth can be both weighted down and warped in strange directions
F#m D
Truth has a shape that alters, each according to observer
A E
Sometimes you must be close to it, sometimes you must be further
[Bridge]
F#m D
Truth can bend and truth can break, depends on how you ask it
A E
It frays or it may blaze out at some pall bound for Damascus
F#m D
And it sometimes gets mistook for God, sometimes for his servant
A E
It both exists and doesn't, like a star that's not observed yet
A D
Which all at once returned my thoughts to System 611
A E
Still twinkling down the telescope into my mind from heaven
A D
And I stood there looking upward as the darkness turned to dawn
A E
And received that strange transmission until finally it was gone
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[Verse 4]
A D
And though I knew beyond a shadow my discovery was real
A E
The person that I longed to tell was sound asleep with Neil
A D
In some parallel dimension maybe Tonya is still mine
A E
But in this one she loves someone else, that left me to search the sky
F#m D
So I went ahead and wrote this to alert you to my findings
A E
I call it, "Truth Is a Dimension Both Invisible and Blinding"
F#m D
You can give me the awards now, you can knight me or whatever
A E
I've got nothing going on now me and Tonya aren't together
A D
You can go ahead and laugh at me and all of my conclusions
A E
Symposiums and seminars and think tank institutions
A D
You may even talk to Tonya, let me ask you if you do
A E
Please tell her I still love her, that will always be the truth
[Outro]
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