Protest The Hero Blindfolds Aside Submitted by: [email protected] Key: B then F# Tuning: Standard EADGBe Chords used: G#m - 466444 E - 022100 B - x24442 F# - 244322 Ebm - x68876 C# - x46664 Bbm - x13321 C#m - x46654 C#/F - 143xxx Bb/D - x587xx A - x02220 F - 133211 Intro: G#m--C#m--G#m--Ebm-- x6 Verse 1: E Ebm We woke up as men but G#m tonight we'll sleep as killers F# As we break the cryptic E morning with a bullet Ebm G#m and a prayer The steel never seemed more cold and agile than now F# And life never seems less vital E Ebm and fragile With a heart G#m--C#m--G#m--Ebm-- Chorus: Ebm with a heart that's beating louder B than my own I watch a G#m Ebm woman they call Kezia I watch a woman that I know I watch my hopes and my own B future blindfolded G#m F# C#/F To atone for a sin I didn't care B for, but a sin that paid my debts A F# C#/F sin that fed my children and B burned my smiles and Ebm Bb/D Ebm---- x4 ci--ga---rettes Verse 2: Ebm And no one ever said that hope F# C# Ebm would be so beautiful And no one ever said I'd have to F# C# pull the trigger on her Guitar Solo: Ebm-- x4 B, F#--Ebm--B--G#m--A--C#--F#--E--F-- Ebm-- x4 Verse 3: Ebm C# Ebm C# B Five soldiers forever sedated F# Ebm C# Ebm with the "No one's responsible" psychological drama C# B C# B C# of our social justice dribble Ebm C# Ebm Her tiny steps tell C# Ebm C# lies about the choice I have to make Resurrect a B C# Bb/D static lifetime starve to death my own Ebm C# Ebm mistakes Pull the screaming trigger and watch your C# B Ebm carcass bleed me dry Or drop the gun and try to C# Ebm C# B Ebm shake away the blindfold from your eyes? Drop the C# Ebm C# B gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun Outro: Ebm-- x6
