Base powpop mtcore prog +metal

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

Came here chasing footnotes in the moss

A cartographer with borrowed arms

The canopy keeps records

That the registry forgot

I sketched a tree that moved between my sightings

Penciled rings that will not hold their shape

Pre-Chorus

So I measure what I cannot hold

I measure what I cannot hold

Chorus

Ancient woodland keep your theorems

Ancient woodland keep your names

Let the surveyor lose his compass

Let the ledger go unnamed

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it go unnamed

Verse 2

Hollow oak with iron in its grain

Bark like folios of unread law

Something older than the parish

Counts the leases I have drawn

Every acre I could argue for

Shrinks beneath that patient dark

Pre-Chorus

And I measure what I cannot hold

I measure what I cannot hold

Chorus

Ancient woodland keep your theorems

Ancient woodland keep your names

Let the surveyor lose his compass

Let the ledger go unnamed

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it go unnamed

Instrumental Break

Bridge

Subtract me

Divide me

Erase the grid across the ground

Assign me

Define me

The roots will turn the numbers down

Chorus

Ancient woodland keep your theorems

Ancient woodland keep your names

Let the surveyor lose his compass

Let the ledger go unnamed

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it go unnamed

Oh-oh oh-oh

Let it go unnamed