Beyond Reason chords by Redgum

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Verse 1
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Night closed in around us
and we trimmed the lamps again
Against the greatest darkness
man had known
A nation's grain was locked
against the famine of another
And hope was in the fast lane,
riding home
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They were roaring from their buildings,
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which were monuments
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To greed and fear and the science
and the logic that had failed
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And minds were merely silicon,
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the aimless
This world had power
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to grasp the thunder
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and to dash it to the ground
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We were slow to come to anger
as we were slow to understand
And we groped the words
that might contain the rage
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And naked terror faded into
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shadows of despair
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Still we fought the rising
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madness of our age
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We marched in tens of thousands
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While the cynics printed curses
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As usual, they'd seen it all before
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And our freedom left us nothing
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But to turn to face the tyranny of silence
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Lest it blow away the dawn
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Dark and dreadful morning
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of a limited exchange
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Force and motion made the planet drift
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The flash of sightless white drift
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through avenues and highways
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Explosion, red explosion from within
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A rising earth in agony,
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a bleeding smoking wasteland
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Where the wind sang songs
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of poison to the dawn
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We wondered while we waited
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If some beings out in space and time
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Were watching just another fading star
Those who gained the shelters
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Were those who faced the judgement
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Of a pale and tragic sun upon our faces
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The crumbling ruins, the acid rain,
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the dull and dreary waiting,
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the sickness and  the anger
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and  the pain.
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The broken flat holes once so proud lay scattered
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upon the cars and homes of friends of ours
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who didn't even know.
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Our memories closed upon a world
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that didn't sleep in the morning
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And the cold wind blew through the corners of our souls
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Thank you all.
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Thank you for watching.