The Whole Of The Moon

Words & music: Mike Scott

On: The Waterboys, _This Is the Sea_

INTRO: Basically G C G D C D C D G, with some flourishes on the D's.

I pictured a rainbow, you held it in your hands

I had flashes, but you saw the plan

I wandered out in the world for years, while you just stayed in your

room / I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon

The whole of the moon

You were there at the turnstiles with the wind at your heels

You stretched for the stars and you know how it feels

To reach too high, too far, too soon

You saw the whole of the moon

I was grounded while you filled the skies

I was dumbfounded by truth, you cut through lies

I saw the rain-dirty valley, you saw Brigadoon

I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon

HORN SOLO

I spoke about wings, you just flew

I wondered, I guessed and I tried--you just knew

I sighed...and you swooned

I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon

The whole of the moon

The torch in your pocket and the wind at your heels

You climbed on the ladder and you know how it feels

To get too high, too far, too soon

You saw the whole of the moon

Yeah yeah yeah

BRIDGE: Unicorns and cannonballs, palaces and piers

Trumpets, towers and tenements, wide oceans full of tears

Rags, rags, ferryboats, cylinders (?) and scarves

Every precious dream and vision underneath the stars

[backing vocals sing "the torch in your pocket" verse]

Yes, you climbed on the ladder with the wind in your sails

You came like a comet blazing your trails

Too high, too far, too soon

You saw the whole of the moon

The whole of the moon

Repeat G C G D

Oh, oh, oh, did you see the whole of the moon

Repeat some more, end on G