C
Cm
I have to say
Bb Cm
I have to see
The twilight moonlit
Bb
The houses on hills
F
All appear so blind
G Cm
At night
The webs that bind them
Bb Cm
To the skies
Are golden, sparkling
Bb
With blood and dust
The angelic motes
F
On beams of blood
G Abmaj
Dance at night
Bb Cm
The trees turn under the rain
Bb F G
Pan lies dead from rut to rot
Cm Bb Cm
I saw the lighthouses all fall
Bb
Small angels hold parasols
And point to other skies
F G
The clacking on the fence
Abmaj7
Is long and loud
The noise of the fingers
Bb Cm
Crack in my head
Behind my eyes
Bb
Between the bloodwalls
F
That line the streets and the skulls
G Abmaj7
Forever
The bonewhite temple
Bb Cm
Letters piling up
Bb
Unanswered stars yawning together
F
You may have this gift from me
G Abmaj7
And I will send you nothing
From what I see
Bb Cm
(And I see all)
The green is going
Bb
Black peter arises
F
With his sack chock full of tricks
G Abmaj7
(And none of them eternal)
Black peter arises
Bb Cm
With his bag of blood
Bb
(And none of this runs eternal)
Black peter arises
F
And he smiles
G Abmaj7
White teeth cap over the blackened stumps
Bb Cm
All the kings of all particular times
Bb
Have passed away
And lie in gutters
F G Abmaj7
Pretty as pink
Bb Cm
I thought that I had seen
Some bright new dawn
Bb
The children all laid down and smiled
F G Abmaj7
The fires no longer smold and dullied
I watched the trash
Bb Cm
That covered this world
Swimming in farces
Bb
In mud and in blood
F G Abmaj7
Without a care in the world
Bb Cm
The corpses are piled up almost to heaven
Chuckling or smiling
Bb
And rubbing their hands
F G Abmaj7
Without a care in the world
Bb Cm
And so we all lie dozing under the sun
Bb
Images of banality flick past our eyes
F
As we bask in this paradise
G Abmaj7
Littered around us
Bb Cm
Books of religion covering my feet
Bb F G Cm
And I haven't the time for a word
Bb Cm
But still I see cottages covered in honeysuckle
Bb
The dovecots so full of the Birds in their thousands
F
The cats lap at cream in their pussyland dream
G Abmaj7
And they haven't a care in the world
And then it shines
Bb Cm
We're all dust
Bb
I drop the compasss and point out the pole
And then it shines
F G Cm
We're all dust
Bb Cm
So wait for me at niemandswasser
Bb
As I watch the flowers bloom
F
And trail the horseflies as they scream
G Abmaj7
The songs we'll never know:
It shines
Bb Cm
That we're all dust
It shines
Bb F G
That we're all dust
Abmaj7 Bb Cm Bb F G Cm Bb Cm Bb F G Cm Bb Cm Bb
We're all dust
