Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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spinning,
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spinning free
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Dizzy with eternity
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brush in some clouds and sea
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A peaceful place,
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A closer look reveals the human race
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is the hu man face
Verse 2
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we can't forget
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Hasn't got a name just yet
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Always awake, always around
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Verse 3
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Now watch as the ball revolves
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And again the hunt begins and
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again the blood wind calls
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By and by, again,
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the morning sun will rise
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rolls the streets
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Staking turf, dividing up meat
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Nightmare spook, piece of heat
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It's you and me, you and me
Verse 4
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night
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Rudy's looking for a fight
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Rat cat alley, roll them bones
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Need that cash to feed that Jones
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And the politicians throwing stones
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Verse 5
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Commissars and
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Anyway they fall,
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guess who gets to pay the price?
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Money green, or proletarian gray
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Selling guns instead of food today
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And the politicians throwing stones
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Heartless powers try to tell
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us what to think
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If the spirit's sleeping
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then the flesh is ink
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On our own, on our own, we are on our own
Interlude 2
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Verse 7
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If the game is lost, then we're all the same
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No one left to place or take the blame
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We will leave this place an empty stone
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Or that shining ball
Verse 8
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And the politicians throwing stones
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Verse 9
Shipping powders back and forth
Singing black goes south
and white comes north
And the whole world full
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of petty wars
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the current fashions
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set the pace
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Lose your step, fall out of grace
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The radical, he rant and rage
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Singing someone got to turn the page
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And the rich man in his
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summer home
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Singing just leave well enough alone
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But his pants are down,
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And the politicians throwing stones
they shake their bones
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'Cause it's all too clear
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Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down
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Ashes, ashes, all fall down
Verse 10
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ning,
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It's dizzying, the possibilities
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Verse 11
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
Ashes, ashes, all fall down
(Ashes, ashes, all fall down)
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