Zaytoun

  C                            Am
I witnessed the youth washing off 
us,
     E                          F
and pool round our feet like a lake.
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        C                    Am
If you lower yourself into darkness,
          E                        
No point tying the rope round your 
F
waist.
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   Am
I heard about your father,
     F                         
the olive in the arbor, and the 
  C                             
stone inside your heart just the 
   G
same.
      C                      Am
The statue wept milk in the garden,
        E                        
hoping something might grow there 
  F
again.
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C
I feel all these forces,

Like riderless horses now.
               G
free from the cart.
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C
We bandage our feet again,

skip over peace again,
        G
hurry apart.

 C                          
Now the bulrushes twist into 
  Am
baskets,
          E                   
Like our histories and futures 
  F
entwined, oh-whoa.
     C                 Am
The Obadiah low on the branches ,
    E                     F
are turning the water to wine, 
oh-whoa.

     Am
It's hard enough to be here,
        F
Such a distance from the sea,
 C                 G
30,000 years I've survived.
     C                     
And all of those kings I've 
  Am
anointed,
       E                      F
Still shook like a leaf at my sight.
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C
I feel all these forces,

Like riderless horses now.
               G
free from the cart.
C
We bandage our feet again,

skip over peace again,
        G
hurry apart.

F
We've tasted the fruit I guess,

snakes in the roof I guess,
            C
whisper the parse.
F
See how the lightning tree,

fought in a sign of peace,
             C
burns in the dark.
                   F
It burns in the dark.