Rainbow Signs chords by MewithoutYou

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Am

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:

Am
Pale horse songs of a slow decline
F
Sideshow words if the songs don't mind
C
G-d gave Noah the rainbow sign
F
No more water, is the H-Bomb next time?
Am
Pale horse vows in a grave I-do-yes-definitely reply
F

Smile for the camera at a 'church' nearby
C
Threw a mute curse at the Boise sky
       F
For my fucked up Napoleon-of-St.-Helena-hairline
Am
Black horse leaping when the frogs withdrew
    F
The parable of the plums where the olives grew
C
Clouded rearrangement of sounds we knew:
   F
An Idaho sunset for my own private Waterloo
Am
Pale horse songs of a slow decline
F
Side show words if our moms don't mind:
C
Cloud gave no one a rainbow sign--
F
Six-point starred ink flag next time?


Instrumental:

Am  F  C  F  x2
(End with one strum on Am until Aaron starts singing the Hebrew/Arabic verse)


Verse 2: (read from right to left)

F     C     F    Am    F      C      F      Am
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Instrumental:

Am  F  C  F  x2


Verse 3:

       Am
With imperial crowns we were 'sent'
           F
Riding out conquest-bent

Daylight is breaking
C
Wielding the sanctified sword
                    F
For the army of the Scarecrow Lord

Daylight is breaking
Am
Balancing scales at our feet
              F
Measuring out two pounds of barley, six pounds of buckwheat
C
Beasts of the Battersea Shield
                      F
At the opening of the fourth seal
    Am
The sky, I'd been told

Would roll up like a scroll
       F
As the mountains and islands moved from their place
        C
And the sun would turn black

As a dead raven's back
            F
But there's nowhere to hide

From the Judge's face
            Am
After which message-less birds take flight without cause
       F
To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws
   C                                 C  F
Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned


Verse 4:

Am
The other night I dreamt I was finally out of college
      F
In my own pair of sandals, I had turned into my father
C
Whistling our tune about the Rio Grande
        F
Like an anchorite in June I took hold of my own hand
    Am
And started on the Abrahamic joke we knew
      F
About apostrophes and pronouns and you-remember-who
           C
"But let's keep that silly punchline between me and you
F
Little Haroon
                         Am
And the man in the moon."


Outro: (one strum per chord)

Am  F  C  F
Am