Key: Ab major
Verse 1
E
D
E
There was a saviour rarer than radium,
Commoner than water,
crueler than truth.
Children kept from the sun,
assembled at his tongue,
E
B
of his keyless smiles.
E
D
E
The voice of children says from a lost wilderness there
was calm to be done in his safe unrest.
F#m
E
When hindering man hurt, man, animal or bird,
D
Em
E
we hid our fears in that murdering breath.
D#m
E
Silence, silence to do when
D#m
D
earth grew loud in lairs
There was glory to hear in
E
C#m
Under his downy arm
B
E
you sighed as he struck.
Oh, you who could not cry onto
and laid your cheek against a
A
E
cloud -formed shell.
A
G
E
there is only yourself and myself,
A
E
Two proud black brothers cry,
D
E
D
To this inhospitable hollow year.
C
E
one lean sigh,
and fire, neighbor,
C#m
E
A
E
but wailed and nested in the sky -blue wall.
A
E
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.
Em
F#m
E
Now see alone in us our own true strangers
F#m
E
dust ride through the doors of
our unentered house.
E
E
Exiled in us we arouse the soft,
and rough love that breaks all rocks.
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