Key: D major•
Intro 1
D
D/C
Bm7
Bb6
D
D/C
Bm7
Bb6
Verse 1
D
D/C
I bless you mad ly
Bm7
Bb6
D
Sadly as I tie my shoes
Bm7
Bb6
D
D/C
Bm7
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bb6
D
D/C
Bm7
Because of you I need to rest
Bb6
D
Because it's you that sets the test
Chorus 1
A
Gb
And as the sparrow sings dawn chorus for
A
Gb
Bbm
The Thinker sits alone growing older
Bridge 1
And so bitter
C7
Fm
They drained my very soul... dry
C7
Fm
Ab
No thought for me remains there
Bb
Db
Nothing can they spare
C
Em/B
What of me?
Am
Am/G
F
Who praised their efforts to be free?
C
Em/B
and sympathy
Am/G
F
That would have blocked their way
C
Em/B
For little pay
Am
Am/G
F
I ravaged at my finance just for those
Em/B
Am
Those who said a new world,
Am/G
F
new ways, ever free
Those whose promises stretched
Interlude 1
C
Em/B
Am
Am/G
F
G
Verse 2
D
D/C
I bless you mad ly
Bm7
Bb6
D
Sadly as I tie my shoes
Bm7
Bb6
D
D/C
Bm7
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bb6
D
D/C
Bm7
Because of you I need to rest, oh yes
Bb6
D
Because it's you that sets the test
Chorus 2
Gb
Bbm
Flickers on me
My friends talk
Gb
Bbm
where all is God and God is just a word
Bridge 2
F
Bbm
"We had a friend, a talking man
C7
Fm
Who spoke of many powers that he had
F
Bbm
Not of the best of men, but ours
Fm
Ab
We let him use his powers
Bb
Db
We let him fill our needs
C
Em/B
Now we are strong
Am
Am/G
And the road is coming to its end
F
G
Now the damned have no time
C
Em/B
to make amends
Am/G
F
stands in our way
C
Em/B
Will blast the sky
Am/G
F
built of age
Em/B
Am
Where money stood
Am/G
F
We planted seeds of re birth
C
Em/B
Sons of dirt
Am/G
F
Hating through our sleeves
'Wish You Could Hear'
'Screw Up Your Brother
Em/B
Am
is from above
Am/G
F
And we can force you to be free
G
C
And we can force you to believe"
Em/B
Am
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
For I once read a book
Am/G
F
in which the lovers were slain
For they knew not the words
It said:
Em/B
Am
I believe in the state of love
Am/G
F
I will fight for the right to be right
Gsus4
I will kill for the good of the fight
G
C
for the right to be right"
Em/B
Am
Am/G
And I open my eyes to look around
Gsus4
G
laid slain on the ground
C
Em/B
Am
As a love machine lumbers
Fsus4
F
Gsus4
Plowing down man, woman,
Em/B
Am
Am/G
F
Not hearing anymore
Gsus4
G
Just the shrieks from the old rich
Outro 1
Somehow
Ab
Live
Bb
Live
C
Live
G
Ab
Bb
C
[Fade out]
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