June Fourth

Bm
This place begins to cave. These are a madman’s days.
G               Em                      Bm
A trembling land must play a murderer’s game.
Bm                      B       Bm
The blind man’s flickering eyes. A flame as black as night.
G               Em                      Bm
The unborn children die before me now.
G               Em7             G               Em7
But from the soldier’s broken bones, from a mothers’ silent songs,
G               Asus    A       Bm
from the pieces of a shattered stone it starts.

[verse]
Bm
We learn and then forget the screams and silhouettes.
G                 Em                    Bm      A
In time you’ll find we’ll make the same mistakes.
Bm              B       Bm      A       Bm
So ruins are reborn, an ever blood-red dawn.
G               Em                      Bm
The palm-lines turn to cracks beneath our feet.

[verse]
Em7             G               Em7             G
But from the silence of the tombs, from the broken, barren wombs,
Em7             Asus    A               Bm
from the pieces of a shattered stone it starts.
G       E7/G#   G       E7
From the parted lovers’ lips, from the nailless fingertips,
G               Asus    A/B             Hm
from the whispers of a silenced voice it starts.