Dawn Is Breaking Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][F][Dm][Am][F][Dm]
[Am][F][Am][F]

[Verse 1]
Remember [Am]looking at the haunted race,
[F]bowed down to the storm
Remember [Am]looking for a familiar face,
but [F]no one there to mourn
Star[Am]ing high, silent s[F]chemes
[Am]Plastic tubes to carry fad[F]ing dreams
A [Am]creature servant in the [F]hall
[Am]Warm blood on the [F]palace walls
[Am]Those who died alone in hell
Wear[F]ing grief in their lapel
[Am]Crop small, changing wish and will
A [F]haunted tear that [Dm]never fell
[F]Someone is dragging a fallen chain
Look[C]ing for you in the pouring rain
While [E]those who care give silent prayer
For lovers going home
If there was a [Am]brickwork surrounded the
New
York dream
There were [F]secrets locked in steel
There's a [Am]but ton you can press
on the love machine
There's a [F]place you want to hear
If you were [Am]born in the barbed
wire of your mother's womb
If you were [F]hungry before you died
When you say [Am]you lived
above all clean and white
You know [F]I know you lied
Remember the poet who said it first
Speak[C]ing of you and your difficult birth
And [E]how you care and say your prayers
for lovers going [F]home[C][E]
[Am]Drinking from an empty cup,
wait[E]ing for a rock to grow
[Am]Whispered sounds that can't be heard,
[E]and no one knows
[F]Children who don't mind the rain,
yet [G]have the wish to die
Whatever [E]you are, wherever I could have been,
you'd feel better if you could [Am]cry[F][G][C][Dm][E][A][Dm][B]
[E][F][C][E]
Oh, [F]dawn is breaking in
the [C]graveyard[E]
[Am]People massing in the streets
[F]Trampled heads beneath their feet
Chil[Am]dren playing with the dead
Sil[F]ver stones stain your breath
[Am]Watching through a widow's veil
A
Caesar [F]desecrates the
Holy
Grail
You [Am]sit all alone in your
front row seat
[F]You look so small and frail
You're the [Am]foot on the feet
of the men you doubt
Your dark[F]ness comes too soon
You should be selling
[Am]Cuban watches and girly photographs
You're [F]a masterpiece in ruin
You're a [Am]panel of a whole
world kind I see
You should [F]have a degree in poetry
You should be [Am]incarcerated
in an apartment tower
With [F]no technology
Did you ever listen [Am]to the
poor opposed to you?
Did you [F]ever stop to ask?
Did you ever smile [Am]behind
your wasted face?
Did you [F]ever lift your mask?
Did you [Am]ever run with your feet on fire?
Did you [F]ever take a pricey ride?
You [Am]know you look like you belong
Hori[F]zon!
Horizon!
Did [Am]you really think that you'd be left
Where war is life [A]an d life is death?