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C, Bb, C
Gm, F, Dm, Eb
Fm, Eb, Bb, Ab
F, Eb, Bb, F
Pre-Chorus:
Cm, Fm, Cm
Bb, C, Eb, Bb
Eb, Gm, Ab, F
Chorus:
Cm, Bb, Ab, Cm (repeat as necessary)
Anecdotes:
Ab Eb Db (x7)
Sending the first scouts over,
back from the place beyond the dawn:
Horse, bear your broken soldier,
eyes frozen wide at what went on.
Ab Eb Bb Db
Anecdotes cannot say what Time may do.
Fm Ab Eb Ab Eb7/G Fm C C/B A G
C Bb Ab G Fm Ab (2x)
I kid with Rufous Nightjar,
when our men are all asleep:
"It aint about how rare you are,
but how hard you are to see.
Eb Ab G
Take, you and me"
Fm C C/B A G
When are you from? said he,
in our blind of winter leaves,
F# G F# G (2x)
as we sighted out their fliers
in the grayscale of the night
fumbled on the bare ground
to bury round landmines,
A Bb Bm C
while the dew lay down and dried.
D C Bb
D C Bb
D C Bb Ab G C
C Bb Ab G Fm Ab (2x)
We signal Private Poorwill,
when morning starts to loom:
Pull up from your dive!
till we hear the telltale Boom,
Eb Ab G
too soonhotdogging loon,
Fm C C/B A G
caught there like a shard of mirror in the moon!
F# G F# G (2x)
Now theyve stopped giving orders,
but I follow anyway,
laying in our state of torpor,
waiting out the day
A Bb Bm C
while the dew burns away.
D C Bb
D C Bb
D C Bb Ab G C
Fm Eb Bm Db (x14)
Rushing, tearing, speeding home:
bound to a wheel that is not my own,
where round every bend I long to see
temporal infidelity.
Ab Eb Db (x7)
where you will not mark my leaving,
and you will not hear my parting song.
Nor is there cause for grieving.
Nor is there cause for carrying on.
Ab Eb Bb Db
Will you come down, before the sun is gone?
Outro:
Fm Ab Eb Ab Eb7/G Fm C C/B A G
F#7 G F#7 G
F#7 G F#7 G
A Bbdim Bm C
D C Bb
D C Bb
A Bbdim Bm C
D C Bb Ab G C