The War Criminal Rises and Speaks Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Dm]The [Am]heart[Dm][Am]
wants to [C]feel.
The heart wants [Em]to hold.
The heart takes past [Am]Sub way,
Past Stop and Shop,
Past Beal's,
And calls it "coming [F]home."
The heart want[Dm]s a trail
Away from [Em]"alone,"[G]
So the heart turn[Dm]s a sale
Into a well-[F]worn milestone
[G]milestone
Towards hard-won [C]soft soft furniture,
[G]Fought-for fast [Em]fast food,
Defended end [Am]table that
Holds paperbacks and back [F]U.S. News.
The [Em]mind turn[Dm]s an itch
Into a [G]bruise,
And the hands start [Dm]to twitch

[Verse 2]
When they're feeling ill-used.
[F]And A[G]nd you're almo[C]st back now,
You can see [Em]by the signs;
From the bank you tell the
[Am]tem perature
And then the time,
And the billboard reads some [F]headlines.
The head wants [Dm]to turn,
To avert both it[G]s eyes,
But the mind want[Dm]s to learn
Of some truth that might be
In[F]side reported [G]crimes.

[Verse 3]
So they found a lieuten[C]ant
Who killed a village [Em]of kids.
After finishing [Am]off the wives,
He wiped off his knife
And that's [F]what he did.
And they're not [Am]claim[Dm]ing that
There's any excus[G]ing it;
That was thirty years [Dm]back,
And they just get paid for the facts
The [F]way they got them [G]in.

[Verse 4]
Now he's rising and [C]not denying.
His hands are shaking,
but [Em]he's not crying.
And he's saying "How [Am]did I climb
Out of a life so boring in
[F]to that moment?
Please [Dm]stop ignoring the [C]heart inside,
Oh you readers at [Em]home!
While you gasp at my [Am]bloody crimes,
Please take the time
To make your heart [F]my home:
Where I'm for[Am]given by [Dm]time,
Where I'm cushioned [G]by hope,
Where I'm numbed by [Dm]long drives,
Where I'm talked off or [F]doped.
Does [G]the heart wants to [C]atone?

[Verse 5]
[Em]Oh, I believe that it's so,
Because if I could climb [Am]back through time,
I'd restore their lives and then
give back [F]my own:
Tens of times now [Dm]it s size
On a far dis[G]tant road
In a far distant [Dm]time
Where every night I'm still crying,
[F]En [G]tirely [F]alone."
But the news today always [G]fades away as you drive

[Verse 6]
[Am]
by,
Until at [F]dinnertime when you
[C]look into [G]her eyes,
Lit by [F]evening sun - that, as [G]usual,
comes
[Em]From above that straight, un[Am]broken line,
[F]The horizon
[G]Its ris[F]ing[G]
Is a [C]given,[Am]
Just like your [F]living.

[Verse 7]
[G]Your heart's warm and [C]kind.
Your mind [Em]is your own.
Our blood-spattered criminal
crim[Am]inal
Is inscrutable;
Don't worry, he [F]won't
Rise up [Am]behind [Dm]your eyes
And take [G]wild control.
He's not [Dm]of this time,
He fell out [F]of [G]a hole.

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