On Children chords by Damien Rice

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
   A minorAm           G+G
Your children are not your children.
       FF                    G+G
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself,
      FF         A minorAm
They come through you, but not from you
         G+G               A minorAm
And though they're with you, they belong to themselves.

Verse 2:
     A minorAm                 G+G
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts.
    FF            G+G
For they have thoughts of their own,
     FF                A minorAm
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
      G+G               A minorAm
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams,

Chorus 1:
FF G+G A minorAm Am (2x)
UUUUuuuuuuh

Verse 3:
     A minorAm        G+G
You may strive to be like them,
   FF            G+G
but seek not to make them like you.
   FF        A minorAm
For life goes, not backward
   G+G        A minorAm
nor tarries with yesterday.

Verse 4:
       A minorAm           G+G
You are the bows from which your children,
      FF       G+G
as living arrows are sent forth,
   FF              A minorAm
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
    G+G           A minorAm
and He bends you, with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.

Chorus 2:
FF G+G A minorAm Am (2x)
UUUUuuuuuh

      FF           G+G        A minorAm
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
     FF          G+G               A minorAm
as He loves the arrow that flies, He loves all that is is stable,
     FF            G+G        A minorAm
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness,
         FF          G+G                  A minorAm