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The Letters of Dr. Kurt G​ö​del

by Levi Weaver

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1.
STRING THEORY Intro: G#m, C#m, D#maj 2x Vs.1 G#m, Sometimes at night / Alone on a highway C#m, what's been and what's nigh D#maj G#m collapse to the middle from left and from right C#m squeezing like bookends for blood, (it's a vice: D#maj G#m a habit to harvest my pain) Vs.2 G#m septic and sweet, the tragedy i just can't C#m sweep off my feet: D#maj G#m what would i be if i weren't incomplete? C#m logic has left us for dead in the street D#maj G#m it's watching me break my own heart Chorus: C#m, D#maj, G#m what if the past were not past? C#m, D#maj, G#m and the future was here all along? (walk - up ) C#m, D#maj, G#m every picture and song was not holding your place in a line but C#m, D#maj, G#m reminding you it was al - ways here time is a one-way street and we're all strapped in to the rear-facing seat the street still existed with all of its secrets before we could see it and the places we pass we just see through the glass but we can't go back someone's foots on the gas but we're screaming directions and hoping for best and we'll measure success by results that we get but we're all strapped in. what if the past were not past? and the future was here all along? every picture and song was not holding your place in a line but reminding you it was always here
2.
THE BUTTERFLY D#m B Net aloft, I sang my stealthy song D#m B The Butterfly and I would soon belong D#m B Colors like some cosmic spectral pool D# A# This conquest will be my crowning jewel
3.
Intro C#m(Synth) (setup)F#m / G#maj (riff) C#m, C#m, A / C#m, A / G#maj During verses, chord top stays C#m, bass line walks all the way down to E in half-steps, only skipping F. "*" notates step down. Vs.1 C#m * * * And even if you called me right this minute, said "come back! all * * * * * is forgiven!", I know my response would be "we burned those bridges" C#m * * * It took me twenty-seven months of swinging and hard living * * * * * C#m to convince myself everything's working out the way it's meant to be Chorus G# C#m B E G# I finally figured out just what my parents meant C#m B E G#m With all that talk about not settling for less C#m E B Am I think I'm gonna buy a ring, and finally let myself be happy Vs.2 My downward spiral finally found a ring of fire twenty years and almost twice as many broken hearts to find her but every second's worth it; every scar, and every hurt, and every time I tasted dirt (and told myself that i deserved it) Chorus I finally figured out just what my parents meant they always said I shouldn't settle for less I think I'm gonna buy a ring, and finally let myself be happy Outro: B
4.
And so... Am C The chemicals collide in some location just outside E F the place where things like love and fear and rage are formed. Am C Coursing through each vein and artery to nerves in every part of me E F that struggle to interpret all the combinations formed. And reactions come off mixed: my jaw is slack, my muscles tense and my heart begins its struggle to break free from the cage of my own chest in an attempt to come to rest somewhere it's certain that your heart will also be Chorus F We're tornadoes when we dance Am high winds concealed in slow romance F uproot the world beneath our paths Am uncover Heaven with our hands Vs.2 The magicians in your eyes make the world disappear from mine they make the weight of life vacation for awhile. And while the music in your kiss begins to sing the minor 5th our fingertips conduct a symphony in style. And by the second movement in, houses are whistling in our wind branches are snapping in our spin and skin is twisting against skin and I am flying, so it seems, foundations bursting at the seams the sky is manic with our song, I am frantic, we are strong. Chorus We're tornadoes when we dance - high winds concealed in slow romance uproot the world beneath our paths uncover heaven with our hands Outro: C, C, E, F Am, Am, C, E F, F, Am, C E, E, F, F, Am for all hits! Cm, F G#, F C#, F G
5.
Vs.1 Dm Dmaj9(no3rd) C6add9 (no 5th) Drink, drink, drink Gsus2 A#maj7, D5, ) (whether it proves or solves a thing A#maj7, Dmaj9(no 3rd is not the point). Dm Dmaj9(no3rd) C6add9 (no 5th) I'm just trying to forget Gsus2 A#maj7 that I've got things to forget D5 A#maj7 so if I just avoid the gin Dmaj9(no3rd) I'll be the heartbeat of the party (start progression at beginning on "so" ...in an hour or so Vs. 2 Gone, gone, gone: not just some girl, but more my pride it's proof no matter how I try, most things are out of my control. so let's make it uniform: I can't play, but i'll perform for anybody who doesn't ask for one thing more Chorus: A# F One more // One more // Gm Dm One more and I'll be through. A# F And you'll go home, and I'll go home Gm A7 And I'll have one more ...or two. Vs.3 Drink, Drink, Drink! I know my Dad would not approve, but he don't hurt the way I do. Drink! Drink! Drink until tomorrow tucks me in and as the room begins to spin I hang on and I pretend...
6.
(The Beast) 00:45
(same chords as the Butterfly) My net has drained the color from your wings Purpose must be in some other thing So I jumped atop the wildest beast on earth to break its will before it breaks mine first.
7.
A Asus2 A Asus2 Oh, they're gonna love me when I look them in the eye and say Dm "I'm damaged, but I'm hopeful!" "I'm gonna keep on trying because A Asus2 A Asus2 love is really all we need! Love's the snake oil tonic that will Dm B C# cure our every evil!" (and I'll sell it like I mean it from the stage). Vs.2 I'm vulnerable, approachable, your folks would probably love me and your imaginary conversations probably sound like this: They've got some very valid questions about my songs and my intentions and the fact I've never settled down; "isn't anybody wondering where you are?" Chorus D E This is home: the stage, the States A all I own in one suitcase Amaj7 A6 all the people that i've loved left back F# Bm E in places I've called home Vs3 Am Let's play truth and consequences? First the truth: I'm not that interested Dm I've been burned a couple times, so now I'm the one who starts the fires A Dm And I probably still believe in love; the problem is, I just can't trust E So where does that leave us? (well) How about those consequences? A I've got this moat around my heart Dm chock full of mud and monsters and my archers never sleep, so use your powers of observation A this stage is more than just the lights and all the adulation: Dm Bm E it's the only place where I can be alone... without --- being alone. Chorus2 D E This is home: the stage, the States A all I own in one suitcase Amaj7 A6 all the people that i've loved left back F# D E in places I've called home! Someday, I'll stop this war Amaj7 A6 F# Someday I'll fall in love, and know what love is for D E but for tonight, I'll sell the box and keep the contents under lock and key Amaj7 A6 F# and by the time you realize you've lost the game, I'll be D E another several homes away, up on some solitary stage A, Asus2 alone again.
8.
Intro: G -> Em -> Bm, Bmaj Vs1. C G I am a cup of rotten coffee, my thoughts are floating on my head C G and if you drink them in and chew them up, they're only gonna make you sick E Am I've lived my life like blackout bingo; trying on each home I thought might fit. F G C Now there's a bean on every square, but someone's telling me I still can't win. Chorus Eb A# I've left // When I thought leaving made things right. Eb A# I've quit // When quitting meant I didn't start a fight. Gm Gm/F Eb I've spent // Half my wrist erasing what I write Gm Gm/F Eb half my days ashamed of half my nights Gm Cm Gm // G half my life escaping from my life. Vs.2 I've paid admission to the places I have loved by pawning off pieces of my heart til I'm smeared across a globe with little hope of recovering half my parts. I've spent entire years behind a wheel wondering why it is I drive so hard. til I'm no closer to an answer, ten years later, than the day I tried to start. Chorus2 I've left // When I thought leaving made things right. I've quit // When quitting meant I didn't start a fight. I've spent // Half my wrist erasing what I write half my days ashamed of half my nights half my life escaping from my life Bridge: Eb A# Sometimes I'm certain I'm a train filled with strangers Eb A# And we're all searching for a home we've never seen Gm Gm/F Eb So I'll keep whistling my so-ong low and pretty (walkdown) Cm And we'll keep stumbling through the night Gm like tunnels searching for the light. Chorus3 I've left // When I thought leaving made things right. I've quit // When quitting meant I didn't start a fight. I've spent // Half my wrist erasing what I write half my days ashamed of half my nights half my life escaping from my life
9.
all bass notes in intro/verses are over a Bm Intro: B, C#, D, A, G Vs1&2 B C# D A G I built this house but it fell down before I got one night of sleep B C# D A G So how does that beat all the fools who never tried They missed the moon in rented rooms, traded stories over food I worked alone, broke my bones with all my pride (hang on G) I desired royal attire, so I acquired the emperor's skin held a parade & begged the world to look inside I wanted fame, 'cause I thought fame could prove to me that I was great it never came; I was a failure to myself Chorus (G,F#,G,A) F# G It's the way of the world to swallow you alive F# G Bm (walk) G (2x) The way of the world to swallow you alive // spirit first. Vs3/4 It's been so long singing songs I couldn't possibly still mean i guess they're lies if they've lost the truth they had and it's so hard to get well, writing postcards home from Hell I'd rather pack; I'd rather leave this all/ Chorus It's the way of the world to swallow you alive the way of the world to swallow you alive // spirit first Bridge G Bm Whoa, Whoa, I give up (2x) G Bm Ooo - ooooh // I give up. Vs5 You get one life, and I spend mine chasing highways made of ghosts now I don't know the way home from where I stand And I believed I was free, til I forgot what I believed now I don't even need chains to hold me down.
10.
(The Bird) 00:43
Intro: D#sus4 / D#m (2x) C# D#m B I held on til I lost the count of days D#m B And when I lost my grasp, I narrowly escaped D#m B on wings of a bird who promised me the sky D#m A# I cursed my conquests as we took to flight
11.
Intro: Bm, E (3x) F#, B E I can self-destruct just fine all by myself I don't need your help to destroy my mental health I drank enough tonight to kill me let's take one more shot and we'll see B if this hurt i've got will stop there at the grave Chorus E (walkdown)Emaj7 C#m Well hey, if you can toss your better sense aside E (walkdown)Emaj7 C#m and you can turn the world into a ride G#,C#m G#,C#m (F#, B) So can I -- I // I -- I Vs.2 I've worn regrets like they were patches for broken hearts i've worn like badges I've got medals, self-accusing from wars I've lost and those I'm losing but there's no valor to my candor don't pretend it's something grander I'm just done with fighting demons behind the curtains of the saints Chorus But if you can bring yourself to say you tried and you can pass your shame for some kind of pride So can I -- I // I -- I Bridge E G#7 And it seems hope is right around the corner C#m A but i've got some disorder that pushes straight instead E G#7 the worse the sin is, the more the consequences C#m A the more i'm on a mission to tally-ho ahead! (Instrumental) E, G#7, C#m, A (chord climbs to E major) back to half-intro: Bm, E (2x) Vs3 I've been drunk while I was preaching I've backslid while still believing i'm still fighting off those demons and i've tried fighting off the saints and i've been told i've got a purpose but i think everyone on earth does but that don't keep us all from hurting so i'm no more or less deserving of this Chorus But if you can see the truth behind the lies and you can come out on the other side So can I
12.
Apostate 04:09
D G D Disappointment is a bitter pill to swallow G D Bm A paying back the hope I borrowed from someone I never knew D G D and it's a poor fit: humans in the suits of heroes G D Bm A undressed by whispered conspiracies and inquests for the truth Chorus G A D D/C# but if the truth is what you're looking for G A F# G you don't get to choose the answers anymore Em A F# G Em B A so tell me do you really still believe that the truth will set you free? G Gm I do. I do. Vs2 Paranoia: i related with his struggle. Does that mean that I'm in trouble if he finally lost the faith? Are my questions hopeless if I'm angry at the answers? Are my doubts all so disastrous that they'll ruin me someday? Well if the truth is what I'm looking for I don't get to choose the answers anymore So tell me do I really still believe that the truth will set me free? I do // I do. Bm Bmaj9(no 3rd) Bmin7 G Am I honestly aiming for answers Bm Bmaj9(no 3rd) Bmin7 G if I walk in, conclusions drawn Bm Bmaj9(no 3rd) Bmin7 G If I stumble, If I falter, If I wander… Bm D F# then I wonder: will truth hold on? G No, I believe Em Bm A that the truth will set me free G Bm A Yeah the truth will set me free. So if the truth is what we're looking for We don't get to choose the answers anymore G Gm (but I do… I do.)
13.
Intro: D#, A# (2x) D# A# I often think that the worst of the curse Cm Cm/A# G# Is nothing to do with these clothes or childbirth D# A# the bruising of heels or the tilling of earth Cm Cm/A# G# but the fact that the fruit didn't keep to its word G# G#m 'cause sometimes I can't choose good / sometimes I can't choose good from evil Well there's logic and faith, and there's trouble with both I feel like the child of a rotten divorce where custody's settled in some awful court and one gets my mind, and the other my heart still, sometimes I can't choose good, sometimes I can't choose good from evil Cm A# G# Ooo - ooo - oooh (3x) So I doubt what i know, and I doubt what I can't I doubt what I do, and I don't understand still, I doubt the earth's salted from shaking these hands and I doubt I can ever be happy with that sometimes I can't choose good / sometimes I can't choose good from evil.
14.
(The End) 02:25
Intro: Ebm Ebm B When the butterfly is faded / and the beast shows you the dirt Ebm B when the bird has died somewhere mid-flight, and you crash down to the earth G#m Ebm G#m Ebm when you're incomplete / will you try your feet? G#m Ebm A# Ebm or will you find your knees / and admit defeat? B Ebm Oooh (repeat)
15.
Vs1 Bm F# Every hour at the chalkboard taught me more about the things I knew F# But couldn't prove to anyone demanding F# Bm proof until I had a few things all worked through G Em And so I labored through the night until my fingers turned to white D I tried to package you F# F#7 Bm and you eluded me each time as if to say I'd never find a box you fit into Vs2 I abandoned social norms, I became a man absorbed with needing evidence I even tried a couple times to pretend i could deny an answer could exist I plugged in faith and hope and love (at least the closest I could come) and each one wrecked the ship and with each night and each skipped meal Mr. Hyde would take the wheel a little bit Chorus G Gm D The answer looks / an awful lot like another question Am G D A grim reminder that our design is limited G Gm D Every answer looks a lot like another question E G F# But I can't stop asking / I can't stop asking Vs3 I started swearing at the walls and as my chest would rise and fall it seemed to taunt my brain till in a fit of rage, I clawed to put a silence to the hollow hope that screamed my name But with each piece I could extract, each finger-full continued asking me to show my work Til I collapsed upon the floor, naked and sore and sure I could not even prove it hurt. Vs 4 Then lying face-up on the floor, once more I looked up at the board and i began to cry there amidst the chalk and slate, some wayward blood had found its way and now it caught my eye and the spatter spelled out clearly "everything you know is theory (even your own name)" you don't need proof to have some answers to the questions you've been asking all along the way. Chorus The answer looks / an awful lot like another question A grim reminder that our design is limited Every answer looks a lot like another question But I can't stop asking / I can't stop asking Outro You'll always be // a little incomplete // but don't throw away the things you do know.

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A lot of musicians played on this album. Like, a LOT.
I'm sorry I didn't keep better track of who played on what. I have a list, but it's incomplete. I want to make sure I get everyone properly credited... I'll update this when it's done.

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released June 1, 2011

Copyright 2010 AirWeaver Music.
Produced by:
Aaron Dethrage (tracks: 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15)
Mitch Dane (tracks: 5, 8, 12, 13)
Levi Weaver (tracks: 3, 11)
Levi Weaver/Aaron Dethrage (track: 7)
Levi Weaver/Mitch Dane (track: 4)

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