CAm
I witnessed the youth washing off us,
EF
and pool round our feet like a lake.
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CAm
If you lower yourself into darkness,
EF
No point tying the rope round your waist.
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Am
I heard about your father,
FCG
the olive in the arbor, and the stone inside your heart just the same.
CAm
The statue wept milk in the garden,
EF
hoping something might grow there again.
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C
I feel all these forces,
Like riderless horses now.
G
free from the cart.
C
We bandage our feet again,
skip over peace again,
G
hurry apart.
CAm
Now the bulrushes twist into baskets,
EF
Like our histories and futures entwined, oh-whoa.
CAm
The Obadiah low on the branches ,
EF
are turning the water to wine, oh-whoa.
Am
It's hard enough to be here,
F
Such a distance from the sea,
CG
30,000 years I've survived.
CAm
And all of those kings I've anointed,
EF
Still shook like a leaf at my sight.
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C
I feel all these forces,
Like riderless horses now.
G
free from the cart.
C
We bandage our feet again,
skip over peace again,
G
hurry apart.
F
We've tasted the fruit I guess,
snakes in the roof I guess,
C
whisper the parse.
F
See how the lightning tree,
fought in a sign of peace,
C
burns in the dark.
F
It burns in the dark.