Key: G
Introduction:
G
On the very day I die
Cm
The very last of my desires
G
Is that you take my broken body
Cm
And commit it to the fire
G
And then when the fire is finished
Cm
Scrape the ashes in a tin
G Cm
Take them down to Londons drinking reservoirs
F
And throw them in
G Cm
And then specks infinitesimal of my mortal remains
G Cm
Will slide down 7 million throats and into 7 million veins
G Cm
And I will creep through their capillaries to the marrow of their bones
G Cm F
And they will wake to bright new mornings and then wordlessly theyll know
G Dm
That I remain
Cm F
I am remembered
G Dm
I remain
Cm F
I am remembered
G
So these 7 million innocents
Cm
They will have me in their blood
G
And when they die theyll burn their bodies
Cm
Or be buried in the mud
G Cm
And I will spread through streams and rivers like a virus through a host
G Cm
From the hamlets to the cities from the rivers to the coast
G Cm
And from there into the channel across the great Atlantic Ocean
G
And ever onwards to the new world
Cm
Through the waters gentle motions
G Cm
Until parts of me are part of every land mass every sea
G Cm F
In the rain, up on your crops and in the very air you breath
G Dm
I remain
Cm F
I am remembered
G Dm
I remain
Cm F
I am remembered
G
I remain
Dm Cm F
And all the things I love will be washed away in the rain
G Dm Cm F G
I remain
D Eb
D
Im not convinced of the existence of these things that dont exist
Eb
Yeah by Jewish boys with big ideas and scratches on their wrist
D
By a loving or a vengeful God
Or one who condescends
Eb
Wholl wash his hands down in the mire among the misery of men
F
Or by ever turning circles hanging timeless in the sky
G
Like a dream catcher distracting from the fact youre gonna die
D
But I place one foot before the other
Confident because
Eb
I know that everything we are right now is everything that was
D
That Watt Tyler, Woody, Guthrie, Dostoevsky and Davy Jones
Eb
Are all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones
F
And all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands
D
Were once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand
G Dm
We remain
Cm F
We are remembered
G Dm
We remain
Cm F
We are remembered
G
We remain
Dm
And all the things we love
Cm F
Will be washed away in the rain
G Dm Cm F
We remain