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