Was He Ever Alive? chords by Swans
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Verse 1
(D major) (D minor) When I die (D major) let me down
In the field in the ground
Where (D minor) the water runs be (D major) neath me
(D minor) And the sky's (D major) red and falling down
(D minor) Round my eyes that I (D major) closed
And (D minor) the world (D major) that I know
Is (D minor) a shadow (D major) of a dream
That (D minor) left me in my loneli (D major) ness
(D minor) Without (D major) a life behind me
That I can say I ever knew
That I can say I ever knew
(D minor) That I can say (D major) I (D minor) ever lived at all
(D major)
Verse 2
Now (D minor) (D major) I'm a drunken man
(D minor) and (D major) I'm killing time
From (D minor) what (D major) was mislaid
i've (D minor) (D major) never been alive
I (D minor) was nev (D major) er born in blood
I've (D minor) nev (D major) er breathed a word
And the (D minor) people that (D major) I knew
(D minor) The women and (D major) the thieves
They (D minor) left (D major) my body bleeding
On this piece (D minor) of fallow ground (D major)
(D minor) They left my body bleed (D major) ing
On this (D minor) piece of clos (D major) ing in
(D minor) They left (D major) my body bleeding
(D minor) On (D major) this (D minor) (D major) piece of (D minor)
emptiness (D major) (D minor)
(D major) (D minor) (D major)
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
(D minor) And locusts eat (D major) our food
And the blood of lamb is spilled
And smeared (D minor) (D major) across the altar
And the colors red and gold
Put (D minor) their flavor (D major) in our soul
And the children are born blind
And the wa (D minor) ter turn (D major) s to blood
And we're sheltered by our god
Who's hand is strong and bloody
And we're walking
earth that's (D minor) filled (D major)
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
He'll (D minor) send a (D major) swarm of flies
Yeah, he'll slaughter those that kill us
And he'll punish them that hide
Where (D minor) was (D major) it decided? Where
was (D minor) it de (D major) scribed
That a (D minor) man he gets (D major) no substance
That as he lays there as he dies
He ceases to believe
He (D minor) was ever born (D major) in blood
That his eye (D minor) s have (D major) ever seen
That his hands have ever held
(D minor) That his (D major) lungs (D minor) have ever (D major) breathed
That he's ever been alive
was he ever live?
Was he ever live? Was (D minor) he ever live? (D major)
Was he ever live?
(D major)
Was He Ever Alive?
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