August 6th Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]August 6th

[Verse 2]
Aug. 6th, carved in desks [C]with
old knives:

[Verse 3]
[C]Back when our common cause was [G]alive, and--let's say--the hyacinth hyacinth hyacinth fields [Am]were in bloom, children watched as the soldiers marched by, [C]all the birds fell like [F]frog[C]s f[G]rom the sky, prostrate in the streets every c[Am]rescent moon, lonesome offspring of which still resound w[C]ith the victimless sins of their authors passed d[G]own and the remnants of loathsome,
disjointed [Am]worlds along the short path round the lily pad [C]pond with off-white deerskin deerskin wedding dress [G]on, German songs, homemade bonnets like [C]old-order [G]Amish [Am]girls jilted by squirrels in the parks of Sioux Fall[C]s haunted by church bells like ghosts of a[G]pplause and the earth deep down tire-stacked walls walls like [C]New [G]Mexi[Am]co, peaceful as moth-bitten pincushion pincushion dolls ma[C]king up myths about wounds witho[G]ut cause...

[Verse 4]
and sometimes when it's [G]quiet my
heart feels like [Am]Guernica.

[Verse 5]
scenes from old air [Am]raid on
screens in blue dusk
[C]perfumed neighborhoodsgraveyards the breath
feels like
[G]flies in my lungs, voice like ambulance
sirens whose [Am]light floods
the ground
(praying mantis spreads arms said
[C]the lines of whose palm?)
skyline shifting like clouds
became air[G]plane descends
fade to scenes on the ground
human fore[Am]heads all smashed,
foreign cars upside down,
insect [C]mouths open wide I stared
down a huge [Am]insect
bright [G]red-glowing eyes,
eyes,
does it feel wrong to say a thought
[Am]metastasized?
legs on both highway [G]sides,
[F]

[Verse 6]
s a i d i n s e c t [Em]w a s [G]m e[F] c [Dm]h a [Em]n i z[G] e [F]d ! ! ! ! ! ![Em]
[G]

[Outro 1]
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