The Tears Of Things chords by U2

Intro:

Am


Verse 1:
        Am
There’s no start to this story

And I can see no end
   D7
To young men hearing voices

Whisper in the wind
  F
I woke up made of marble

A shepherd boy in shock
     B
Michelangelo release me

From a single block
    Bm
I’m David the giant killer

With heart-shaped eyes
      Dm
I was naked as a soldier

Far from my mother’s cries and


Chorus:
    A
The tears of things
             C#m
The tears of things
F#m                 E
Rising like a flood
    Bm
The tears of things
                    F#m
The tears of things
    F
I’d cry them if I could


Verse 2:
       Am
Was it you, Lord, I was listening to?

You didn’t say much
          D7
You said ‘Let my fingers form you,

Be fashioned by my touch,
   F
Be open to be broken

As every heart that sings,
   B
No voice and drum can overcome

A symphony of strings’
          Bm
You said ‘You’d make of me an instrument

For melody and word’
  Dm
I wonder as things fall asunder

Was it really you I heard or?


Chorus:
    A
The tears of things
             C#m
The tears of things
F#m                    E
Songs made out of rain
    Bm
The tears of things
                    F#m
The tears of things
C#7              Bm
Here we go again
     A
Mussolin came to see me
                 C#m
A shadow by his side
F#m
Church bells ring, a vanishing
                     E
Then the vanishing denied
    Bm                                   F#m
Six million voices silenced in just four years
    F
The silent songs of Christendom

So loud everybody hears


Verse 3:
Am
Before the roar, before the blast

The stench and shame
          D7
There’s a howling, wailing sound

That screams your name
    F
I’m David not Goliath, I was born in Bethlehem
          B
And there is no us if there is no them
   Bm
My eyes were burned from all I learned

There were things I can’t unsee
   Bm
In this your holy war

There’s nothing holy here for me just


Chorus:
    A
The tears of things
             C#m
The tears of things
F#m                 E
Rising like a flood
    Bm
The tears of things
                    F#m
The tears of things
    F                   Bm
I’d cry them if I could


Bridge:
       Am                        D
If you put a man into a cage and rattle it enough
        F                           B
A man becomes the kind of rage that cannot be locked up
       D
No, it cannot be locked up
       Dm
No, it cannot be locked up
Am                            D
  Dear God you made us so you wouldn’t be alone
      F                       B
Every heart is exited until a heart gets home
      D
Don’t send us back to stone
      Dm
Don’t send us back to stone


[Instrumental]
A C#m F#m E
Bm F#m C# Bm


Verse 4:
A                                       C#m
I was made for worship before I spoke I sang
F#m
Songs of grief, of disbelief
                       E
How a woman can love a man
    Bm
The naked song, the sacred song
                   F#m
That every soldier fears
            C#7
‘Cause when people go around talking to God
   Bm
It always ends in tears


Chorus:
          A
Yeah, the tears of things
             C#m
The tears of things
        F#m                E
Let the desert be unfrozen
    Bm
The tears of things
                F#m
The river sings
          F                    Am
Who would choose to be chosen?


Outro:
Am
River, sea and mountain

Desert, dust and snow
Am
Everybody is my people

Let my people go