Orphans Of God chords by Buddy Miller

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro:
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD

    G+G
I will rise from my bed
    C majorC     G+G
With a question again
C majorC      G+G
As I work to inherit
D MajorD
The restless wind
G+G
The view from my window
  C majorC    G+G
Is cold and obscene
C majorC     G+G
I want to touch
    D MajorD      G+G
What my eyes haven't seen
G+G
But they have packaged our virtue
C majorC      G+G
In cellulose dreams
C majorC        G+G
And sold us the remnants
    D MajorD
Til our pockets are clean
    G+G
Til our hopes fall 'round our feet
     C majorC      G+G
Like the dust of dead leaves
C majorC       G+G
And we end up lookin'
   D MajorD     G+G
Like what we believe
    C majorC      G+G
We are soot-covered urchins
    C majorC     D MajorD
Running wild and unshod
    G+G     C majorC
We will always be remembered
    D MajorD     G+G   C majorC  G+G C majorC C/BC/B D MajorD
As the orphans of God
   G+G
Like bees in a bottle
    C majorC     G+G
We are flying at fate
C majorC      G+G
Beating our wings
      D MajorD
Against the walls of this place
 G+G
Unaware that the struggle
    C majorC      G+G
Is the blood of the proof
C majorC       G+G
In choosing to believe
   D MajorD     G+G
The unbelievable truth
G+G
But they have captured our siblings
   C majorC       G+G
They rendered them mute
C majorC      G+G
Disputed our lineage
  D MajorD
And poisoned our roots
     G+G
We have bought from the brokers
     C majorC      G+G
Who have broken their oaths
     C majorC      G+G
And we're out on the streets
    D MajorD      G+G
With a lump in our throats
    C majorC      G+G
We are soot-covered urchins
    C majorC     D MajorD
Running wild and unshod
    G+G     C majorC
We will always be remembered
    D MajorD      G+G
As the orphans of God
     C majorC       G+G
They will dig up these ruins
     C majorC      D MajorD
And make flutes of our bones
      G+G      C majorC
And blow a hymn to the memory
    D MajorD     G+G  C majorC  G+G C majorC  G+G D MajorD G+G C majorC  G+G  C majorC  G+G D MajorD G+G