Key: C
Introduction:
Cm Fm Ab Bb
Cm Ab Bb Gm
Cm Fm Ab Bb
Cm Bb Gm Eb
Cm Gm Bb Fm
Cm Fm Ab
Cm Bb Cm
Cm Ab Bb
Verse
Fm Db Fm Eb
I was born into this terror, unsuspecting as I was
Fm Db Fm Eb
Just a lifeward child, not aware of all the misery
Fm Db Fm Eb Fm
No idea of the blame this world already had to shoulder
Db Fm Eb
As an untold crime came down and sealed my fate
Cm Ab Eb Cm Ab Fm
No premonition of the doom impending
Cm Ab Bb Cm Eb
Not knowing of my strife for life to come
Cm Ab Bb Cm Ab Fm
Soon gone were the years of my levity
Cm Ab Bb Cm Fm
Eleven summers before darkness fell
Cm Bb Fm
Keep this paper crane, one of a thousand
Cm Fm Ab
There never was a guilt to burden myself
Cm Gm Eb Fm
My hopeless cry, it went unheard
Cm Fm Ab Eb
And unlike me, you knew there were no gods to save me
Fm Db
Verse
Fm Db Fm Bb Fm
Still no idea of the blame this world would have to shoulder
Db Fm Eb
As for one last time I bid the cranes farewell
Cm Ab Eb Cm Ab Fm
Passing by like timid ghosts
Cm Ab Bb Cm
Summoners of a placid world
Eb Dm Cm
Never reaching me
Ab Bb Cm
Masters of a peaceful life
Ab Fm Cm Ab Bb
Moving on to stainless shores
Cm Fm Cm
Never teaching me
Bridge
Cm
Now I lay my aching hands to rest
Bb
As I bid my crane farewell
Cm Fm
Ab Bb Cm Bb Gm Cm
And I wish for an echo of my forlorn life to be your melody
Cm Gm Bb Fm
Keep this paper crane, one of a thousand
Cm Fm Ab
There never was a guilt to burden myself
Cm Gm Eb Fm
My hopeless cry, it went unheard
Cm Fm Ab
And unlike me, you knew there were no gods to save me
Eb Bb Db Eb Ab B
All hope in vain, you just murdered them
Eb Bb Db Ab B Eb
Banished the crane from the meadows of this life