Lyrics, Chords & Tablatures: Crystal Ball


by Pekka Rechardt and Jim Pembroke. Album: Light Ages (1993)
          w/Riff A:
Intro: || F#m    A   |   Hm     D   ||

F#m        A        Hm     D
Into a crystal ball we may view
To see the ancient world good as new
Down the halls of time way on through
Just flowing   (Riff A:)
As like another stitch on the loom
Another child in mother nature's womb
On the journey yeah from cradle to tomb
We keep going (Riff A:)
And as the rhythm of the rains increase
Another plan to figure some release
When everybody wants more than one piece
Of what's going  (Riff A:)

Dm 
And how the laws that rule the universe
Gm
Can turn around and be another curse
Dm
It's all in your hands for better or worse
Gm
And it all just keeps on growing
Dm
Oh 
Gm
oh 
Dm
oh - 
Gm
world spinnin' round like a crystal ball

(RIFF A)

And all the paupers want nothing but spend
Everything that they can beg or lend
When all things beautiful bright depend
On your balance showing
And as we look out from our hole in the wall
Couldn't figure it this way at all
If the moon can rise must the sun still fall
Glowing

RIFF B:  4x

RIFF A: (Solo)

Like the silence on a silver screen
A moving star like an old drag queen
You sure can't hear if you've never seen
A cock crowing
And in the heaven's of an eastern light
Shining on through although it should be night
My orientation is left or right
Or winds blowing

And how….

RIFF B: 2x

RIFF A:

World's turning like a crystal ball
Keep a turning like a crystal ball

(solo)

RIFF A2: (harmony riff)

Coda: RIFF B:




RIFF A:
     F#m      A         Hm       D        F#m      A         Hm       D
||---------------2---|------------------|----------2------|------------------||
||---2-------5-------|--5---------------|--2--------------|------------------||
||.------------------|-----------2---4--|-----------------|-----------------.||
||.------------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------.||
||-------------------|-(2)------(5)-----|-----------------|-(2)------(5)-----||
||--(2)------(5)-----|------------------|-(2)------(5)----|------------------||


RIFF B:  Pattern - with variations
     C                                    D
||-------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
||-------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
||.------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------7---.||
||.------------------|----------5---7---|-----------------|--7------9-------.||
||---3---------------|--7---------------|--5-------9------|------------------||
||-------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||


RIFF A2: Harmony riff 
    F#m      A         Hm       D        F#m      A         Hm       D
||---2-------4---5---|--4---------------|--2-------4---5--|--4---------------||
||---2-------5---7---|--5--------2---5--|--2-------5---7--|--5-------2---5---||
||.------------------|-----------2---4--|-----------------|----------2---4--.||
||.------------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------.||
||-------------------|-(2)------(5)-----|-----------------|-(2)------(5)-----||
||--(2)------(5)-----|------------------|-(2)------(5)----|------------------||

Contributed by Kari Herranen