Dead Man Walking chords by Chris Catalyst
Verse 1
Am
Beneath the shadowed trees,
a footpath so roughly trod
The news swayed in the breeze
to carry me home to God
This date said in the diary
F
my sins would be atoned
Am
C
Am
F
Am
There would be no inquiry
and soon I would be gone
A quandary at a beauty spot
to reason or to run
My mother cried an awful lot
B
Am
G
Am
C
Am
My father, God is gone
C
Am
D
Dm
C
Am
C
Am
Dm
C
Am
C
Am
I rise above the hearsay,
C
I hide from hyperbole
Dm
D
I'll sway most anyway,
Dm
Am
G
Eb
C
Am
but I decline to benefit
B
C
Cm
Dm
D
C
Am
G
Eb
C
Am
We're near the grim conclusion
Adim
Am
So here is my two -pants
Dm
Am
Illusion or delusion,
attack or self -defense
We acquiesce to effloresce,
Adim
B
the magpie's master stroke
Dm
Am
Religion is just killed and meshed
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with a masquerade of hope
Am
C
Dm
Am
G
Eb
C
Am
B
C
E
F
Bb
Am
G
Am
C
I
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Verse 2
Am
stand accused and disabused
C
A dead man walking
Dm
D
I stand confused
Dm
I'm black and bruised
Am
G
A dead man walking
Am
C
Am
I got the blame
B
But feel no shame
C
Nobody talking
F
That waiting game
Bb
Was all I prayed
Am
G
A dead man walking
Dm
C
Am
And now the tree stands lonely,
Adim
Am
B
assertive but arcane
Dm
The vultures gathering slowly
Am
to pick at my remains
I camouflage my ugly scars
Adim
B
and dust away my form
Dm
Asus4
Am
But I'd rather have a broken heart
than not have one at all
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