Empire chords by Dar Williams

Chords with lyrics

Dar Williams - Empire


CAPO: 4th Fret


N.C.        E minorEm
Who's afraid of the sun?
            B minorBm
Who would question the goodness of the mighty?
         E minorEm
We who banish the threat
           B minorBm
When your little ones all go nighty-nighty

       D MajorD
Well, there's no time for doubt right now
  E minorEm
And less time to explain
    D MajorD
So get back on your horses

Kiss my ring, join our next campaign


    E minorEm
And the empire grows
     B minorBm
With the news that we're winning
   E minorEm
With more fear to conquer
     B minorBm
And more gold thread for spinning
     E minorEm
Bright as the sun
        B minorBm
Shining on everyone


            E minorEm
Some would say that we forced our words
          B minorBm
And we find that ingenuously churlish
        E minorEm
Words are just words
         B minorBm
Don't be so pessimistic, weak and girlish

    D MajorD
We like strong, happy people
     E minorEm
Who don't think there's something wrong with pride
D MajorD
Work makes them free

And we spread that freedom far and wide


    E minorEm
And the empire grows
    B minorBm
Got the seeds of its glory
  E minorEm
For every five tanks
    B minorBm
Plant a sentimental story
         E minorEm
'Til they worship the sun
          B minorBm
Even Christ-loving ones


     E minorEm
And we'll kill the terrorisers
   B minorBm
And a million of their races
     E minorEm
But when our people torture you
     B minorBm
That's a few random cases
        E minorEm
Don't question the sun
          B minorBm
It doesn't help anyone


          E minorEm
But the journalists cried out
G+G    B minorBm
When it was too late to stop us
   E minorEm
Everyone had awakened
    G+G        B minorBm
To the dream they could enter our colossus


      D MajorD
And now I'm right, here you said I'm right
    E minorEm
There's nothing that can harm me
      D MajorD
'Cause the sun never sets

On my dungeons or my army


    E minorEm
And the empire fell
    B minorBm
On it's own splintered axis
    E minorEm
And the emperor wanes
    B minorBm
As the silver moon waxes


    E minorEm
And the farmers will find old coins
     B minorBm
In their strawberry fields
   E minorEm
While somebody somewhere
      B minorBm
Twists his ring as someone kneels
       E minorEm
Oh, where is the sun
         B minorBm
Shining for everyone?
       E minorEm
Oh, where is the sun
         B minorBm
Shining for everyone?


OUTRO:  (## repeat and fade to end ##)
     E minorEm  B minorBm  E minorEm  B minorBm  E minorEm  B minorBm