Chords Used: D F#m Bm Em A
Intro: D
D
Let’s retire to our knees
With our books as our graces
F#m
And kindly machines
Of concern take our places
Bm
Grow motorized trees
Build robotic faces
F#m
Who smile on command
Who can mind their own business
Em
We’ll hold human hands
A
And rest human feet
D
And what there shall we yield
In our own poor devotions?
F#m
That pearl from the field
Cast back home to the ocean
Bm
Would you cast out my fears
Or at least fix some tea
F#m
In our cabbage white kingdoms
Of kings of no history
Em
You can pack up your things
A
I would still wear your ring
D
In the Chapelcross Towns
Of the battlescared mornings
F#m
Fake leaves rustling sounds
Lay rattlesnake warnings
Bm
From our homes underground
You can still hear them moaning
F#m
Don’t cheat on your taxes
But as for your spouses
Em
Dark secrets come out
A
With comma or without
D
When the tired young knees
Of your father walked out
F#m
To the lord I disbelieve
But increase thou my doubt
D
He sat down in the leaflessness
A thousand more times
F#m
I went back on my word
But I won’t go back this time
Bm
Neither bondsman nor free
But a newspaper salesmen
F#m
Who moves about words
(e.g. “death do us part”)
Em
If our prayers are unheard
A
…Well our prayers are unheard.
