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Am                       F 
Staring eyes silent screams 
Am                      F 
plastic tubes to carry fading dreams 
Am                             F 
preacher, servant in their hall 
Am                         F 
warm blood on the palace wall 
Am 
those who dine alone in hell 
F 
wearing grief in their lapel 
Am 
drop small change in wishing wells 
F 
the haunted tear that never fell 
F 
someone's dragging a ball and chain 
C 
looking for you in the pouring rain 
E 
while those who care give silent prayer for lovers going home 
 
verse 2
 
Am 
If there was a brickwall surrounding the New York dream 
F 
if there were secrets locked in steel 
Am 
if there was a button you could press on the luck machine 
F 
if there was a place for wounds to heal 
Am 
if you were borne in the barbwire of your mother's womb 
F 
if you were hungry before you died 
Am 
if you say you left your bath all clean and white 
F 
you know, I know you lied 
F 
remember the poet who said it first 
C 
he was speaking of you and your difficult birth 
E 
how you can say a prayer for lovers going home 
 
bridge
 
Am 
Drinking from an empty cup 
E 
waiting for the rot to grow 
Am 
distant sounds that can't be heard 
E 
and no one knows 
F 
children who don't mind the rain 
G 
yet have no wish to die 
E 
whatever your own world could've been you'd feel better if you could cry 
 
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F C E 
F                       C         E 
Dawn is breaking in the graveyard 
 
verse 3
 
Am 
People massing in the street 
F 
trampled heads beneath their feet 
Am 
children playing with the dead 
F 
silver spoon stained with red 
Am 
watching through a widow's veil 
F 
as Caesar desecrates the Holy Grail 
Am 
you sit all alone in your front row seat 
F 
you look so small and frail 
Am 
you're mud on the feet of the men you've damned 
F 
you're darkness come too soon 
Am 
you should be selling two-bit watches and girly photographs 
F 
masterpiece in ruin 
Am 
you're a pantomime of old world courtesy 
F 
you should have a degree in harlotry 
Am 
you should be incarcerated in an apartment tower 
F 
with no technology 
Am 
did you ever listen to the poles opposed to you 
F 
did you ever stop to ask? 
Am 
did you ever smile and hide your wasted lips 
F 
did you ever lift your mask? 
Am 
did you ever walk with your feet on by 
F 
till they take your place in line? 
Am 
did you know that you belong 
F 
where wrong is right and right is wrong? 
Am 
did you really think that you'd be left where 
F                          Am 
power is life and life is death?