The Tears Of Things Chords

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