Vigil chords by Fish

Verse:

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

     Gm                 Bb                  C      Dm
Just quieten down for a voice in the crowd (in the crowd)

            Dm
I get so confused and I don't understand

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

              Gm
But you don't get the chance

       Bb                  C      Dm
Just a voice in the crowd (in the crowd)

                 Bb
I don't know the score anymore

         Dm
It's not clear anymore

                        Bb
I can't tell right from wrong anymore

                  Dm
I just don't understand

Verse:

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

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

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

       Dm
At the time just a little white lie

       Gm
It was one of the first but it hurt me the most

        Bb
And the truth stung like tears in my eyes

     Bb7/Ab
That even the good guys must die

           Gm
There's no reasoning no crimes and I never knew why

                           F#sus2
Even now it still makes me cry

Chorus:

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

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

          Csus4 C        Csus4 C        Csus4 C         F
Just some answers to the questions that surround me now

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

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

          Csus4 C        Csus4 C            Csus4 C
Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

         Bb    F/A  Gm            Dm
I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

      Bb      F/A     Gm           Dm
Where nothing here is ever what it seems

    Bb       F/A           Gm         Dm
You stand so close but you never understand it

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

Verse:

        Dm
And you sit there and talk revolution

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

         Gm
When you tell me the forces we're fighting

          Bb
Then I'll join you and gladly make plans

        Dm
But for now only our t-shirts cry freedom

        Dm
And our voices are gagged by our greed

    Gm
Our minds are harnessed by knowledge

       Bb
By the hill and the will to succeed

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

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

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

Chorus:

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

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

          Csus4 C        Csus4 C        Csus4 C         F
Just some answers to the questions that surround me now

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

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

          Csus4 C        Csus4 C            Csus4 C
Just some answers to the questions that I'm asking you

         Bb    F/A  Gm            Dm
I keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

      Bb      F/A     Gm           Dm
Where nothing here is ever what it seems

       Bb       F/A         Gm               Dm
You're reaching out, you're so close you can touch it

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

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

Chorus:

      C                Bb    F/A  Gm            Dm
Until then I'll keep a vigil in a wilderness of mirrors

Bb      F/A     Gm           Dm
Nothing here is ever what it seems

    Bb        F/A      Gm            Dm               Bb
I'm scared to shout in case I draw attention from the powers

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

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

Verse:

Dm
Day by day it's getting louder

    Dm
And day by day it's getting stronger

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

                Ddim
I listen to the crowd

Outro:

Ddim
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.