Intro
D#m B D#m B D#m B B C# (x2
verse 1
D#m B
And on that day they'll tell you
D#m B
That life hummed on with no clue
D#m B B C#
The warning signs were all dismissed or shouted down
D#m
So it goes
B
The kings all failed to tell us
D#m B
The madmen failed to sell us
D#m B B C#
On what would then befall the only life we'd know
Refrain 1
G#m B
Were they burning signal fires to guide us to the fields?
G#m B C#
Or building funeral pyres? The outcome of a final appeal
D#m F# G#m
The city lines are down the kerosene's run out
A# C# D#m
The fracturing of all we relied upon
F# G#m
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
A# C# D#m B D#m B
Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone
verse 2
D#m B D#m B
The paranoia gripped us the rain turned engines to rust
D#m B B C#
The panic set in like a cancer to our hearts
D#m
Spreading through
B D#m B
We bet on finite genius or prayed for gods to save us
D#m B B C#
But there was no antidote disease tore us apart
Refrain 2
G#m
We left bodies in the fields
B C#
So numb that we forgot how to feel
D#m F# G#m
The city lines are down the kerosene's run out
A# C# D#m
The fracturing of all we relied upon
F# G#m
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
A# C#
Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone
Bridge
D#m B G#m D#m
He looked at the fields and then his hands
C# B
All I need is what I have
G#m D#m
Then fell a tear of happiness oh oh oh oh
B G#m D#m
She watched the world crumble away
C#
'Is this the end of yesterday?'
B C# D#
'Lord I hope so' is all he said
B
All gone are the old guards
G#m D#m
Gone are the cold cold wars
F# B
Weightless we go forth
C# D#m
On wings of amnesty
C#
Oh we relied on now
D#m F# G#m
The city lines are down the kerosene's run out
A# C# D#m
The fracturing of all we relied upon
F# G#m
Let's shed this unclean skin and start to feel again
A# C#
Because all the shoulders on which to cry are gone
D#m F#
No more no more
G#m A#
No more no more
C# D#m
No more no more
F#
No more no more
G#m
No more no more
A# C# D#m
The weight that we once felt is gone