[ 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
[ chorus 1 ]
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
[ chorus 2 ]
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
[ chorus 3 ]
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