Tom: Bm
Bm
This place begins to cave. These are a madman’s days.
G Em Bm
A trembling land must play a murderer’s game.
Bm B Bm
The blind man’s flickering eyes. A flame as black as night.
G Em Bm
The unborn children die before me now.
G Em7 G Em7
But from the soldier’s broken bones, from a mothers’ silent songs,
G Asus A Bm
from the pieces of a shattered stone it starts.
[verse]
Bm
We learn and then forget the screams and silhouettes.
G Em Bm A
In time you’ll find we’ll make the same mistakes.
Bm B Bm A Bm
So ruins are reborn, an ever blood-red dawn.
G Em Bm
The palm-lines turn to cracks beneath our feet.
[verse]
Em7 G Em7 G
But from the silence of the tombs, from the broken, barren wombs,
Em7 Asus A Bm
from the pieces of a shattered stone it starts.
G E7/G# G E7
From the parted lovers’ lips, from the nailless fingertips,
G Asus A/B Hm
from the whispers of a silenced voice it starts.
