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