Was He Ever Alive? chords by
Swans

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Key: E major

Verse 1
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When I die let me down
In the field in the ground
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Where the water runs beneath me
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And the sky's red and falling down
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Round my eyes that I closed
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And the world that I know
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Is a shadow of a dream
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That left me in my loneliness
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Without a life behind me
That I can say I ever knew
That I can say I ever knew
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That I can say I ever lived at all
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Verse 2
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Now I'm a drunken man
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and I'm killing time
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From what was mislaid
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i've never been alive
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I was never born in blood
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I've nev er breathed a word
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And the people that I knew
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The women and the thieves
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They left my body bleeding
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On this piece of fallow ground
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They left my body bleeding
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On this piece of closing in
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They left my body bleeding
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On this piece of
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emptiness
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They left my body bleeding
On this piece of fallow ground
Where famine comes before me
And cuts my people down
Where the brown cloud
shuts the sun
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And locusts eat our food
And the blood of lamb is spilled
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And smeared across the altar
And the colors red and gold
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Put their flavor in our soul
And the children are born blind
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And the water turns  to blood
And we're sheltered by our god
Who's hand is strong and bloody
And we're walking
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earth that's filled
With the bodies that he's killed
To get our people free to get
our people out
To get our people free
to get our people out
He'll drown em in black waters
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He'll send a swarm of flies
Yeah, he'll slaughter those that kill us
And he'll punish them that hide
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Where was it decided? Where
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was it described
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That a man he gets no substance
That as he lays there as he dies
He ceases to believe
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He was ever born in blood
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That his eyes have ever seen
That his hands have ever held
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That his lungs have ever breathed
That he's ever been alive
was he ever live?
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Was he ever live? Was he ever live?
Was he ever live?
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