Vigil chords by Fish

Chords with lyrics

Verse:

DmDm
Listen to me, just hear me out, if I could have your attention

   G minorGm         Bb majorBb         C majorC   DmDm
Just quieten down for a voice in the crowd (in the crowd)

      DmDm
I get so confused and I don't understand

          DmDm
I know you feel the same way you've always wanted to say

       G minorGm
But you don't get the chance

    Bb majorBb         C majorC   DmDm
Just a voice in the crowd (in the crowd)

         Bb majorBb
I don't know the score anymore

     DmDm
It's not clear anymore

            Bb majorBb
I can't tell right from wrong anymore

         DmDm
I just don't understand

Verse:

   DmDm
I was just sitting here thinking of exchanging a new world for old

   DmDm
Like changing channels on the tv, or the dirt we stand in to gold

      DmDm
When I was young my father told me just bad guys die

    DmDm
At the time just a little white lie

    G minorGm
It was one of the first but it hurt me the most

    Bb majorBb
And the truth stung like tears in my eyes

   Bb7/AbBb7/Ab
That even the good guys must die

      G minorGm
There's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why

              F#sus2F#sus2
Even now it still makes me cry

Chorus:

FF     C/FC/F   Bb/FBb/F  C majorC FF      C/FC/F       Bb/FBb/F
If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

       C majorC              Bb majorBb
Just a little helping hand, just a little understanding

     Csus4Csus4 C majorC    Csus4Csus4 C majorC    Csus4Csus4 C majorC     FF
Just some answers to the questions that surround me now

      C/FC/F     Bb/FBb/F C majorC FF     C/FC/F       Bb/FBb/F
If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

       Bb majorBb          C majorC
Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

     Csus4Csus4 C majorC    Csus4Csus4 C majorC      Csus4Csus4 C majorC
Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

     Bb majorBb  F/AF/A G minorGm      DmDm
I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

   Bb majorBb   F/AF/A   G minorGm      DmDm
Where nothing here is ever what it seems

  Bb majorBb    F/AF/A      G minorGm     DmDm
You stand so close but you never understand it

  Bb majorBb     C/Bb    Bb majorBb     C/Bb    DmDm
For all that we see is not all that it seems, am I blind?

Verse:

    DmDm
And you sit there and talk revolution

      DmDm
But can you tell me just who's in command?

     G minorGm
When you tell me the forces we're fighting

     Bb majorBb
Then I'll join you and gladly make plans

    DmDm
But for now only our t-shirts cry freedom

    DmDm
And our voices are gagged by our greed

  G minorGm
Our minds are harnessed by knowledge

    Bb majorBb
By the hill and the will to succeed

    Bb7/AbBb7/Ab
And if that's not what you believe

     G minorGm
Would you just let me know I'm not standing alone

                 F#sus2F#sus2
That I'm not just a voice in the crowd

Chorus:

FF     C/FC/F   Bb/FBb/F  C majorC FF      C/FC/F       Bb/FBb/F
If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

       C majorC              Bb majorBb
Just a little helping hand, just a little understanding

     Csus4Csus4 C majorC    Csus4Csus4 C majorC    Csus4Csus4 C majorC     FF
Just some answers to the questions that surround me now

      C/FC/F     Bb/FBb/F C majorC FF     C/FC/F       Bb/FBb/F
If there's somebody up there, could they throw me down a line

       Bb majorBb          C majorC
Just a little guiding light to tell wrong from right

     Csus4Csus4 C majorC    Csus4Csus4 C majorC      Csus4Csus4 C majorC
Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

     Bb majorBb  F/AF/A G minorGm      DmDm
I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

   Bb majorBb   F/AF/A   G minorGm      DmDm
Where nothing here is ever what it seems

    Bb majorBb    F/AF/A     G minorGm        DmDm
You're reaching out, you're so close you can touch it

    Bb majorBb    C/Bb      Bb majorBb    C/Bb
But it all disappears when it's always so near

    Bb majorBb     C/Bb     Bb majorBb      C/Bb
But one day we will find that we stand in the light

Chorus:

   C majorC        Bb majorBb  F/AF/A G minorGm      DmDm
Until then I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

Bb majorBb   F/AF/A   G minorGm      DmDm
Nothing here is ever what it seems

  Bb majorBb    F/AF/A   G minorGm      DmDm        Bb majorBb
I'm scared to shout in case I draw attention from the powers

    C/Bb     Bb majorBb      C/Bb
That preside over our minds and our lives

     Bb majorBb     C/Bb    Bb majorBb    C/Bb      DmDm
When they find what I want is the deadliest weapon, that is truth

Verse:

DmDm
Day by day it's getting louder

  DmDm
And day by day it's getting stronger

         Bb majorBb              Dm/A
But when I can't scream no more and I need reassurance,

        DdimDdim
I listen to the crowd

Outro:

DdimDdim
And the boy stood and stared at the hill; and the hill - it stared back

Chords by Michael Trost (Mitch 18 Januar), with thanks to Ed Elloway, Marc Roy, Michel Schudel
and Darren Greaves, on whose work some of his transcriptions are based.