Key: Ab major
Verse 1
A
G
A
There was a saviour rarer than radium,
Commoner than water,
crueler than truth.
Children kept from the sun,
assembled at his tongue,
A
E
of his keyless smiles.
A
G
A
The voice of children says from a lost wilderness there
was calm to be done in his safe unrest.
Bm
A
When hindering man hurt, man, animal or bird,
G
Am
A
we hid our fears in that murdering breath.
G#m
A
Silence, silence to do when
G#m
G
earth grew loud in lairs
There was glory to hear in
A
F#m
Under his downy arm
E
A
you sighed as he struck.
Oh, you who could not cry onto
and laid your cheek against a
D
A
cloud -formed shell.
D
C
A
there is only yourself and myself,
D
A
Two proud black brothers cry,
G
A
G
To this inhospitable hollow year.
F
A
one lean sigh,
and fire, neighbor,
F#m
A
D
A
but wailed and nested in the sky -blue wall.
D
A
Now break a giant tear
for the little -known fall,
for the drooping of homes that
did not nurse our bones,
brave deaths of only ones
but never found.
Am
Bm
A
Now see alone in us our own true strangers
Bm
A
dust ride through the doors of
our unentered house.
A
A
Exiled in us we arouse the soft,
and rough love that breaks all rocks.
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