Key: D minor
Verse 1
Am
The epileptic vision
of the human tide of weakness
A
Am
Dm
A
Am
A
Am
I'll sing you a song
of a man
G
Am
who lived not very far from here
He was born at the end
of the Second War,
if you'll give or take a year
His face is known to all of you,
G
Am
but his name I can't divulge
A
So consider him a unit of
G
Am
the population boss
A
Am
He grew out of the settling dust
G
Am
when the bombs had ceased to fall
He played upon the graves
C
Am
and never realized at all
To resurrect a nation,
G
Am
people sweated and they sinned
But a limbless man on paper legs
G
Am
A
will tumble in the wind
Turn around stranger,
G
A
it's your face in the glass
D
Get down on your knees
A
G
A
and pick the pieces from the ground
D
It's your reflection,
A
G
stranger turn around
A
Get down on your knees
G
A
Am
and pick the pieces from the ground
In a calm, uncertain stillness
G
we clumbered through the dust
Am
To conceive the transformation
C
Am
politicians promised us
A
Am
They put their weapons in their mouth
G
so to see throughout the land
Am
Built a kingdom like an heiress
G
Am
with the ration book in her hand
He grew into a world
A
G
where escape was held supreme
Am
Into the land of alcohol
C
and the television dream
Am
Out from the womb of eternal peace
G
Am
into the stranger's bed
To rid himself of the reason
G
Am
A
why the blood of youth was shed
Turn around stranger,
G
A
it's your face in the mirror
D
Get down on your knees
A
G
A
and pick the pieces from the floor
D
It's your reflection,
A
G
stranger turn around
A
Get down on your knees
G
A
Am
and pick the pieces from the ground
The ideals of our promised land
G
Am
were trampled to the ground
And in their place
the weeds of power
C
Am
and wealth were to be found
But the image of the Patriots
G
Am
still swells the hearts of men
For the freedom to destroy ourselves
G
Am
we'll fight, and fight again
But the people grew unsettled
G
with the age of the spoon -fed mind
Am
And the quiet revolutions
C
came to edify the blind
Am
They rebelled into conformity
G
in a modified disguise
Am
And now he walks the path
G
Am
of a man he once himself despised
A
Turn around, stranger,
G
A
it's your face in the glass
D
Get down on your knees
Verse 2
A
G
A
and pick the pieces from the grass
Verse 3
D
It's your reflection,
A
G
A
stranger, turn around
Verse 4
A
Get down on your knees
G
A
and pick the pieces from the ground
Am
Verse 5
He searches through the city streets
G
Am
for a face he used to know
He listens through the traffic
C
Am
for a voice from long ago
He's paused the face so many times
G
and did not recognize
Am
A vision of his loneliness
A
G
Am
reflected in his eyes
A
Turn
Verse 6
around stranger,
G
A
it's your face in the mirror
Verse 7
D
Get down on your knees
A
G
A
and pick the pieces from the floor
D
It's your reflection,
Verse 8
D
A
G
A
stranger turn around
Verse 9
A
Get down on your knees
G
A
And pick the pieces from the ground
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