The Deserter's Song chords by Radical Face

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Skies black,
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cold and vacant now
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I sat on the hillside
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The stars up above me
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Like pinholes in velvet
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I listened to the song
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That I hoped I'd never hear

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Verse 2

And off behind me

Guns snap like insects

We're fighting for causes

We don't really fathom

But we'll charge ahead

Bloodied hands feed the flames

Verse 3
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Their guns all
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rain down
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Say your prayers, fall and run
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This is do or die this time
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Raise your fist, give 'em hell boys
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Let's make them wish they'd never lived
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Verse 4
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eyes locked with a boy
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on the other side
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Hands dropped,
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he  stood defenseless
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But he wasn't frightened
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His face was accepting
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But I couldn't pull
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I couldn't pull, I couldn't pull

Verse 5

And I could see it clear

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To fall was not my fear

To make one fall was

Verse 6
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And the chaos returned
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I backed into the trees
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Left my guns on the ground
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Wiped the mud from my knees
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And I knew in my heart that
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My old life was gone
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That in walking away,
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my name was undone
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So I might as well run

Interlude 1

Parts and

Verse 7
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bones and
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strings of secrets
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Cut the ties that bind me
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I  might dream myself as king
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But I   ain't made for ruling