Awake In The Dirt chords by Kevin Devine

Chords with lyrics

E minorEm
Dad I know
     A augmentedA
You can't see
      F#F#
My actions as
      B minorBm
A augmentedA plea for peace

       E minorEm
You can't get past
         A augmentedA
The rocks stained red
       F#F#
The nail bomb blast
      B minorBm
The doctor, dead

       E minorEm
Your prairie dream
       A augmentedA
Your liberal heart
       F#F#
Your patient mind
       B minorBm
Your father's arms

        E minorEm
They just won't do
        A augmentedA
They just can't fit
        F#F#
It's them, not Marx
         D MajorD
You can blame for this

       Bb majorBb  A augmentedA D MajorD
Alive in the dirt
       E minorEm
Alive in the dirt
    F#F#         B minorBm
I'm at peace, sainted and waiting
    FF
For my perfect pain to speak through me again


Break: Bm, Em, A, F#, B minorBm

       E minorEm
Dad, I found God
      A augmentedA
Through Vietnam
     F#F#
Mai Lai's graves
   B minorBm
Agent Orange

       E minorEm
See, we live lies
      A augmentedA
We have to choose
        F#F#
Our bombs speak loud
      B minorBm
So I spoke, too

     E minorEm
Then disappeared
        A augmentedA
Ten miles from home
    F#F#
Newark slum
        B minorBm
Where you won't go

        E minorEm
It's here I've found
     A augmentedA
My higher self
      F#F#
A augmentedA life that works
       D MajorD
And suits me well

        Bb majorBb  A augmentedA D MajorD
I pray for the dirt
        E minorEm
I pray for the dirt
    F#F#         B minorBm  FF
And I ask to suffer in silence
        G+G    C majorC
To stay here in hell
       AbAb  G+G  C majorC
Awake in the dirt
       AbAb  G+G  E minorEm
Awake in the dirt
       A minorAm    FF
Awake in the dirt now

B minorBm

      E minorEm
My stutter lifts
       A augmentedA
My words come clear
      F#F#
Your little girl
        B minorBm
She's just not here

   E minorEm
I am sure
   A augmentedA
At my death
        F#F#
The truth will float
        B minorBm
On God's sweet breath

      E minorEm
Until that time
       A augmentedA
Don't ask for me
      F#F#
Behind this veil
       D MajorD
Is where I'll be

        Bb majorBb  A augmentedA D MajorD
At one with the dirt
        E minorEm
At one with the dirt
    F#F#         B minorBm
I'm at peace, sainted and waiting
    FF              B minorBm
For my perfect pain to cover me for good?