B                             G#m
 My phantom brother came to me
                                 E
 His backlit face was hard to see
                               B   E B E
 I couldn’t move, I couldn’t scream
B                                G#m
 You can’t unhear Beethoven’s 5th
                               E
This human heart’s an aggregate
                         B
Competing feelings so disparate
      F#
And strange

[Chorus]
         E        F#
Life’s a solitary song
          E              F#
No one to clap or sing along
             E/G#                F#
It sounds so sweet and then it’s gone
          B E B E
So suddenly

[Verse 2]
B                               G#m
 My aging mother steeled herself
                            E
Against the gravity she felt
                               B E B E
Braced for another fainting spell
B                                  G#m
 Fell in her mind through a trap door
                               E
We picked her up off of the floor
                                 B
When she came to her throat was sore
         F#
And she spoke

[Chorus]
          E           F#
Life’s a game of solitaire
           E               F#
Amusement rides at county fairs
           E/G#            F#
The Tilt-A-Whirl of our despair
            B
Ends suddenly... Where’d it go?

[Instrumental]
G#m B E C#m
A G#m A F#

[Chorus]
          E             F#
Life’s a lonely love affair
         E              F#
Kaleidoscope beyond compare
        E/G#            F#
It vanishes into thin air
         B
So suddenly