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