Rooks chords by
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Key: G minor

Intro 1

Verse 1
Em Em 
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When the rook
s were laid in the piles
By the sides of the road
D D 
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Crashing into the aerials
Tangled in the laundry lines
Em Em 
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Verse 2
D D 
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And gathered in a field
They were burned in
G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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a feathering pyre
C C 
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D D 
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B B 2
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With their cold black eyes

Verse 3
Em Em 
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When the swallows fell from
the eaves
And the gulls from the spires
D D 
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The starlings, in millions
Would feed on the ground
where they lie
Em Em 
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Verse 4
D D 
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The ambulance men said
G G 
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C C 
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There's nowhere to flee for your life
D D 
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B B 2
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So we stay inside
Am Am 
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And we'll sleep until the world
A A 
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B B 2
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of man is paralyzed
Em Em 
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Interlude 1

Verse 5
Em Em 
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Oh, the fal
coner awakes to the sound of the bells
G G 
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Am Am 
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Overhead and southbound
B B 2
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They are leaving his life
Em Em 
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And each empty cage just rings in
G G 
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his heart like a  bell

Verse 6

Underneath these cold stars

In this trembling light, and he cries

Amen, let their kingdom come tonight

Outro 1

Let this dream be realized

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TunerE A D G B E

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