Key: A minor
Verse 1
Am
C
The stories of the street
are mine
Em
Bm
The Spanish voices laugh
Am
C
The Cadillacs go creeping now
Em
Bm
Through the night and the poison gas
Am
F
And I lean from my window sill
G
F#
B
In this old hotel I chose
E
A
Yes, one hand on my suicide
E
D
One hand on the rose
Interlude 1
D
A
Am
Verse 2
Am
C
I know you've heard it's over now
Em
Bm
And war must surely come
Am
C
The cities they all broke in half
Em
Bm
And the middlemen are gone
Am
F
But let me ask you one more time
G
F#
B
O children of the dusk
E
A
All these hunters who are shrieking now
E
D
A
Am
Oh, do they speak for us?
Em
Bm
Now that we are free?
Am
C
Why are the armies marching still
Em
Bm
That were coming home to me?
Verse 3
Am
F
O lady with your legs so fine
G
F#
B
O stranger at your wheel
E
A
You are locked into your suffering
E
D
A
Am
And your pleasures are the seal
Em
Bm
And both the parents ask
Am
C
The nurse to tell them fairy tales
Em
Bm
On both sides of the glass
Am
F
And now the infant with his cord
G
F#
B
Is hauled in like a kite
E
A
And one eye filled with blueprints
E
D
One eye filled with night
Interlude 2
D
A
Am
Verse 4
Am
C
O come with me my little one
Em
Bm
We will find that farm
Am
C
And grow us grass and apples there
Em
Bm
And keep all the animals warm
Am
F
And if by chance I wake at night
G
F#
B
And I ask you who I am
E
A
O take me to the slaughterhouse
E
D
A
Am
I will wait there with the lamb
C
Em
With one hand on the hexagram
Am
C
I balance on a wishing well
Em
Bm
That all men call the world
D
Am
We are so small
Verse 5
G
F#
B
So large against the sky
E
A
And lost among the subway crowds
E
D
I try to catch your eye
Outro 1
D
A
Am
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