Key: D
Introduction:
Bm D
And on that day they'll tell you
G F#
That life hummed on with no clue
Bm D G F#
The warning signs were all dismissed or shouted down
Bm
So it goes
D
The kings all failed to tell us
G F#
The madmen failed to sell us
Bm D G F#
On what would then befall the only life we know
G
Were they burning signal fires
A9
To guide us to the fields?
G
Or building funeral pyres?
D F#
The outcome of a final appeal
Bm D G
The city lines are down
F# Bm
The kerosene's run out
D G F#
The fracturing of all we relied upon
Bm D
Let's shed this unclean skin
G F#
And start to feel again
Bm D
'cause all the shoulders
G F# Bm D G F#
On which to cry are gone
Bm D
The paranoia gripped us
G F#
The rain turned engines to rust
Bm D G F#
The panic set in like a cancer to our hearts
Bm
Spreading through
D
We bet on finite genius
G F#
Or prayed for gods to save us
Bm D
But there was no antidote
G F#
Disease tore us apart
G
We left bodies in the fields
D F# Bm
So numb that we forgot how to feel
Bm D G
The city lines are down
F# Bm
The kerosene's run out
D G F#
The fracturing of all we relied upon
Bm D
Let's shed this unclean skin
G F#
And start to feel again
Bm D
'cause all the shoulders
G F#
On which to cry are gone
G A9
He looked at the fields
G
And then his hands
A9
"All I need is what I have"
G A9 G F#
Then fell a tear of happiness, Oooohhhh
G A9
She watched the world crumble away
G A9
"Is this the end of yesterday?"
G A9 G
"Lord, I hope so, " is all he said
A9 G
All gone are the old guards
A9 G
Gone are the cold, cold wars
A9 G
Weightless we go forth
F# Bm D G
On wings of amnesty
F#
All we relied on now
Bm D G
The city lines are down
F# Bm
The kerosene's run out
D G F#
The fracturing of all we relied upon
Bm D
Let's shed this unclean skin
G F#
And start to feel again
Bm D
'cause all the shoulders
G F# Bm
On which to cry are gone
D F# Bm
No more, no more
D F# Bm
No more, no more
D F# Bm
No more, no more
D F# Bm
The weight that we once felt is gone