Key: B
B
Oh, sweet thing,
E
Zion doesn't love you,
F#
Babylon don't love you,
B
But you love everything.
B
Oh, you saint,
E
America don't love you,
F#
So I could never love you,
B
In spite of everything.
E
F#
In the dark of this place, there's the glow of your face,
B
E
There's the dust on the screen, of this broken machine,
E
F#
B
And I can't help but feel, that I made some mistake, but I let it go
E
Ya hey, Ya hey, Ya hey
E
Through the fire and through the flames
F#
B
E
(Ya Hey, Ya Hey, Yo De-O Hey, Ya Hey, Yo De-O Hey, Ya Hey)
E
You won't even say your name
F#
B
E
(Ya Hey, Ya Hey, Yo De-O Hey, Ya Hey, Yo De-O Hey, Ya Hey)
E
F#
Through the fire and through the flames, you won't even say your name,
B
E
Only I am that I am.
E
But who could ever live that way?
F#
B
E
B
(Ya Hey, Ya Hey, Yo De-O Hey, Ya Hey, Yo De-O Hey, Ya Hey)
(chords same as first verse)
B
Outside the tents, on the festival grounds,
E
As the air began to cool, and the sun went down,
F#
My soul swooned, as I faintly heard the sound,
F#7
Of you spinning Israelites, into 19th Nervous Breakdown
Through the fire and through the flames