A, A7, D, Dm, C, G, Am, F, EASo without a thought I thought I'd take a final walk
A7The tide of public opinion had started to abate
DThe neighbors (bless 'em) had turned out to be all talk
DmI could see their frightened faces peering at me throug
1fae
h the gate
AWas looking for an end to this for some kind of closure
A7Time moved so rapidly I had no hope of keeping
Dtrack of it
And I thought of my friends who had died of exposure
And I
Dmremembered all the ones who had died from the lack of it
AAnd in my best shoes I started falling forward down the street
A7Stopped at a church and jostled through the crowd
DLove followed just behind me panting at my feet as the
DmSteeple tore the stomach from a lonely little cloud
AInside I sat seeking the presence of a God
A7Searched through the pictures in a leather-bound book
And I
Dfound a wooly lamb dozing in an issue of blood
And a
Dmgilled Jesus shivering on a fisherman's hook
ABabe
It seems so
A7long
Since you've been
Dgone
Dmaway
And
CI just gotta
Gsay
That it grows
Amdarker
Gwith the
Fday
EABack on the street I saw a great, big smiling
A7sun
It was a good day and an evil day and all
Dwas bright and new
And it seemed to me the most destruction was being
Dmdone
By those who could not choose between the two
AAmateurs, dilettantes, hacks, cowboys, clones
A7The streets groaned with little ceasars, napoleons, and
Dcunts
With their building blocks and their tiny plastic phones
DmCounting on their fingers with the crumbs down their fronts
AI passed by garden so you with your
A7flowers
The camellias, magnolias, and azaleas so
Dsweet
I stood there invisible in the panicking crowds
DmYou looked so beautiful in the rising heat
AI smell smoke see little fires bursting on the lawns
A7People carry on regardless listening to their hands
DGreat cracks appear in the pavement, the earth yawns
DmBored in disgusted to do us down
ABabe
It seems so
A7long
Since
Dyou've been gone
Dmaway
And
CI just gotta
Gsay
That it grows
Amdarker
Gwith the
Fday
EAAll these streets are frozen now; I come and go
A7Full of a longing for something I do not know
DMy father sits slumped in the deepening snow
DmAs I search in and out, above, about, and below
ABabe
It seems so
A7long
Since
Dyou've been gone
Dmaway
And
CI hope and I
Gpray
That it grows
Amdarker
Gwith the
Fday
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