Chords with lyrics
Key: C majorC
Verse 1:
D#mD#m A minorAm
Catch the rain empty hands
Bb majorBb
Save the children from their lands
D#mD#m
Wash the darkness from their skin
A minorAm
Heroes from the west
Bb majorBb
We don't know you, we know best
But this is not a test
Chorus:
Bb majorBb FF
You treat me like I'm blind
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G+G Bb majorBb
But light gives heat
Bb majorBb FF
You segregate my mind
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
G+G Bb majorBb C majorC D#mD#m
The light gives heat
Verse 2:
D#mD#m A minorAm
It's not the way to light their way
Bb majorBb
Poison holes in empty fields
D#mD#m
Oh, how good it feels
A minorAm
Lower-class, and understate
Bb majorBb
Empty promise, empty plate
Chorus:
Bb majorBb FF
You treat me like I'm blind
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G+G Bb majorBb
Light gives heat
Bb majorBb FF
You segregate my mind
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Burning crosses from your fears, your fears
G+G Bb majorBb
But light gives heat, gives heat
Instrumental: (Bb majorBb C majorC D#mD#m Bb majorBb C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC D#mD#m)
Chorus:
D#mD#m FF
You treat me like I'm blind
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Setting fires around houses on the hill
G+G Bb majorBb
But light gives heat
Bb majorBb FF
You segregate my mind
C majorC G+G FF C majorC
Burning crosses from your fears, oh
G+G Bb majorBb
The light gives heat
Bridge:
Bb majorBb FF C majorC
Will you teach us how to love?
G+G FF
To see the things you see
C majorC G+G
Walk the road you walked
Bb majorBb
Feel the pain that you feel
FF C majorC
At your feet I kneel,
G+G FF
I want to see you shine
C majorC G+G
See your light not mine
Bb majorBb G+G
'Cause light gives heat
Bb majorBb G+G
Your light gives heat