Lovers Revolution chords by Iron & Wine

Iron & Wine
Lovers' Revolution
Ghost on Ghost (2013)

Capo 4th fret

Em
I came to you and you to me
                                    D
And we were tapping on the window at the children when the piggy bank broke
C            Em
 Pitching quite a fit
        D              C              Em
About how the makers of the medicine will always say you’re looking sick

Em
I came to you and you to me
                                     D
And we would whimper to the women washing milk off of their formal white clothes
C           Em
 But the funny thing
       D               C               Em
Was how when God was in his people we were dreaming about who else to be
       D                 C             Em
And all the fingers that we damaged when all we wanted was a diamond ring

Em
I came to you and you to me
                                  D
And we were barking at the drug dogs, blood dried black on their hands
C          Em
 And never realized
      D               C                Em
You never tussle with a giant til you can hit him right between the eyes
      D                 C              Em
And that no matter how we chewed it, we’d be choking on a compromise
       D            C              Em
Cause all the jaws, all the claws lay restless by the riverside
       D               C             Em
And it wasn’t muscle in the shadow that was shoving us into the light

Em
I came to you and you to me
                                  D
And we were snatching at a war baby’s bottle just to trade it for change
C              Em
 But now it’s come to pass
      D                C                 Em
That every eye beneath the mountain saw the smoke but no one heard the blast
      D                C                Em
That no one knew the arm was broken although everybody signed the cast
       D                C                Em
And until the government was good, she said “Man, I thought you’d never ask”
     D                  C               Em
And when love wore out her welcome, they just booked her for a bag of grass
      D                 C               Em
That while she cried on the cross, we were sucking on the laughing gas
       D               C              Em
And when the head had left the body, not a flag was hanging half-mast

Em
I came to you and you to me
                               D
And then we lost our own lovers’ revolution but it started again
C          Em
 And now we’re one
      D              C             Em
One of the parade wake widows walking home into the setting sun
      D           C                Em
One of the soldiers lost in the dreams that never lose the gun
      D            C            Em
One of the wise men wandering the podium without a tongue
      D            C              Em
One of the trophies tarnished by the mess we made of being young
      D               C             Em
One of the prayers, one of the promises swallowed with our chewing gum
      D             C               Em
One of the deaf ears, dumber all the time for all the years of drums
       D          C           Em
One of the wide-eyed soap boxes buried under Washington
      D            C           Em
One of the beat cops combing every sidewalk crack for love
      D         C              Em
One of the crowded stars uncounted when the map was done
      D                C              Em