Book Of Our Names chords by Ezra Furman

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I want there to be
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a book of our names
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None of them missing,
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none quite the same
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None of us ashes, all of us flames
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And I want us to read it
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aloud

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Interlude 1

I want it to tell

Verse 2
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of our exile here
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In a cruel machinery,
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our bodies between the gears
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And our world back home just
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the ghost of a prayer
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And I want us to read it aloud
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I want us to read it aloud
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Verse 3
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And our names will be heard
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through prison  walls
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Through wet city streets and
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international calls
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And we'll read it until this
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whole empire falls
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And then we will continue to read it
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And the names will be

Verse 4
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the
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real ones that are ours
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Not the ones given us by
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the enemy powers
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But the ones that we know in our
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bones and our bowels
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And they'll be said out loud and

Interlude 2

repeated

Yes, I want there to be

Verse 5
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a book of our names
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None of us missing,
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none exactly the same
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None of us ashes, all of us flames
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And I want us to read it aloud
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I want us to read it aloud