June Fourth

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

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

[verse]
Em7             G               
But from the silence of the 
Em7             G
tombs, from the broken, barren 
wombs,
Em7             Asus    A       
from the pieces of a shattered 
        Bm
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.