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Chords:
LA LA7 RE REm DO SOL LAm FA MI
LA
So without a thought I thought I'd take a final walk
LA7
The tide of public opinion had started to abate
RE
The neighbors (bless 'em) had turned out to be all talk
REm
I could see their frightened faces peering at me through the gate
LA
Was looking for an end to this for some kind of closure
LA7 RE
Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping track of it
And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
REm
And I remembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it
LA
And in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
LA7
Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
RE
Love followed just behind me panting at my feet as the
REm
Steeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud
LA
Inside I sat seeking the presence of a God
LA7
Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book
RE
And I found a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
REm
And a gilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook
LA
SIabe
LA7
It seems so long
RE REm
Since you've been gone away
DO SOL
And I just gotta say
LAm SOL FA MI
That it grows darker with the day
LA LA7
Back on the street I saw a great, big smiling sun
RE
It was a good day and an evil day and all was bright and new
REm
And it seemed to me the most destruction was being done
By those who could not choose between the two
LA
Amateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
LA7 RE
The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and cunts
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
REm
Counting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts
LA LA7
I passed by garden so you with your flowers
RE
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so sweet
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
REm
You looked so beautiful in the rising heat
LA
I smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns
LA7
People carry on regardless listening to their hands
RE
Great cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
REm
Bored in disgusted to do us down
LA
SIabe
LA7
It seems so long
RE REm
Since you've been gone away
DO SOL
And I just gotta say
LAm SOL FA MI
That it grows darker with the day
LA
All these streets are frozen now; I come and go
LA7
Full of a longing for something I do not know
RE
My father sits slumped in the deepening snow
REm
As I search in and out, above, about, and below
LA
SIabe
LA7
It seems so long
RE REm
Since you've been gone away
DO SOL
And I hope and I pray
LAm SOL FA MI
That it grows darker with the day
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