Capo V for live recordings, Capo VI for album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAf0gx0_fM
[Intro]
C/G
(hammer-on g string)
No lyrics
[Verse 1]
C/G
There are those among us willing
Am
To get by on anything
G
Hollow hope of what is coming
C/G
A lifetime dangled by a string
C/G
But this ocean dives so deeply
Am
And this river runs so wide
G
I won't be counted one among them
C/G
Until my soul is satisfied
C/G
Brick and brick of buried hunger
Am
Keeping all desire dark
G
And then we are like lions
C/G
We are tearing it apart
C/G
There are those among us lying
Am
Saying nothing is for free
G
And then we are like lions
C/G
And we will not leave until we eat
C/G
Playing kings and playing peasants
Am
Do we get what we are owed
G
An eagle comes and talks of failure
C/G
A rabbit offers up its throat
C/G
Will they buy even our breathing
Am
A river strangled by a dam
G
Less than one percent are taken
C/G
So tell me who dries up this land
C/G
Is it worse to see no future
Am
Is it worse to be afraid
G
And then we are like lions
C/G
Pumping fire in our veins
C/G
We are born with a perfect hunger
G
We are born with a perfect need
F
And then we are like lions
C/G
And we are bearing all our teeth
[Interlude]
C/G Am G C/G
[Verse 2]
C/G
It is coming down the mountain
Am
Fear that hoards you like a cold
G
It wants to settle in your footprints
C/G
Keep you still from where you're going
C/G
Aw, you think you know of losing
Am
Aw, you doubt of innocence
G
That big sky still hangs above you
C/G
Every day just wants to quit
C/G
There's no light you see to guide you
G
And it scares you just the same
F G
And then we are like lions
C/G
Nothing dares get in our way
C/G
See your faithless sails drifting
G
And your truth just cut apart
F G
And then we are like lions
C/G
We are golden in our hearts
C/G
And then we are like lions
G
We are standing on two feet
C/G G
Hanging on the kitchen wall
F
For everyone to see
C/G
Get out your banjo
F
So we can sing
C/G
There are winds that wrap and hold me
Am
There are whispers in the trees
G
I cannot hold all that is sacred
C/G
They are holding onto me
C/G
Kiss the years that all are dying
Am
Kiss the face that makes you stay
G
They are in your rhythms walking
C/G
They are showing you the way
C/G
Breath and breath above a sickness
G
Shouting threats upon your life
F G
And then we are like lions
C/G
We are fool enough to fight
C/G
It will cheat you in the balance
G
Taking more than left to live
F G
And then we are like lions
C/G
We are strong enough to give
F G
And then we are like lions
C/G
We are strong enough to give
