Battle Cries

G

[Verse 1]
G
I’m at the brink, don’t laugh
The wrinkles and bricks that we’re 
left with at last

G
At the winks I’ve masked
And drink will fix all those 
questions unasked

C                        G
Who’ll save you when you fall?
Who died and made you king of it all

G
Who wins this war? You’ve a knack
Now the wind is so warm on the back 
of my neck

G
For applause from the back of the 
stalls but you lack
As I walk with the sun hand in hand 
from the wreck

C                          
The conviction to look at me 
                     G
straight and say yes
Some fictions we took to mean fate 
believe me I know

G
Don’t be uncouth, be a man
Tell the truth to me love, does my 
hair look as nice

G
Don’t lie with your eyes, you know I
 despise that look
As it did when you once tied it up 
in your eyes?

C                                 
                           You’re 
             G
home.        For God’s sake I’m
Look at me as you say this, don’t 
look at your phone

G
Done with your dreams, they won’t 
last
Cos that sun that beams down as my 
hands touch the grass

G
Thirty winters will pass, you’ll 
look back
After summers of fasting I feel 
hunger at last

C                                 
At the woman fifty year old you 
                        G
will be proud to have     known
For the person fifteen year old me 
would be proud to have known


[Prechorus]

Am F C G

Am F G G

[Chorus]

C
Cos these plates they smash like 
waves

C
Place your smile in mine

F
And the wine stains hide the tears

F
Why stay? Hide the

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Am
But that breathing you hear don't 
mistake it for sighs

Am                             
Don’t you realise - They’re just 
                  F     G
battle cries dear

C
And these lines aren’t wrinkles dear
 heart

C
Hardly knew the words

F                                 
I’m dolled up love don’t I deserve
             G
 to just
They’re just dollops of paint on a 
new work of art

Am
And as I walk away I know I’ve been 
through the wars

Am                             
But that creaking you hear in my 
                             F     
bones is not pain, it’s applause
    G




[Verse 2]

G
Come on love, please don’t start
With you I could summon the gods and
 the stars

G
Sing your notes, play your part
Watch them dance out the plays that 
we wrote from the heart

C                                 
Then we’ll leave. We were gods
                 G

And we’d laugh at the ghosts of our 
fears. We were kids

G
‘Come at me your blaggards you’d 
yell
‘Come at me you blaggards’, you’d 
yell from the banks

G
From the back of the gallery
Wielding words against make-believe 
wizards and tanks.

       C                           
Say goodbye.                       
                 G
                     I am not
And by god love believe me, I wanted
 to play too, I did

G
A drunkard, A daughter, A preacher, 
god knows how you
But we sunk into water no creature 
can know

G
You dragged us both into the 
darkness that grows
You dragged me along to watch all 
your shows

     C                             
                       Oh dear God.
                  G
                        I won’t
Our devils broke rank, and out of 
the depths came an army. I won’t

G
Leave without a fight
Let you turn our last night into 
this

G
I’m going to binge watch a box set, 
drink wine, reminisce

C                                 
This isn’t a break up dear heart, 
                G
it’s a season finale

[Pre-chorus]
Am C F G
Am C G G

[Chorus]

C
Cos these plates they smash like 
waves

C
Place your smile in mine

F
And the wine stains hide the tears

F         G
Why stay? Hide the

Am
But that breathing you hear don't 
mistake it for sighs

Am                             
Don’t you realise - They’re just 
            F        G
battle cries dear

C
And these lines aren’t wrinkles dear
 heart

C
Hardly knew the words

              F                    
They’re just dollops of paint on a 
            G
new work of art
                I’m dolled up love 
don’t I   deserve to just

         Am
And as I walk away I know I’ve been 
through the wars

Am                             
But that creaking you hear in my 
                             F
bones is not pain, it’s applause

F
It’s not pain it’s applause

G                      C
It’s not pain it’s applause

F G Am Am F G

[Otro]

G
All it took to unearth in the dust 
and the dirt

G
Some release or respite from the 
heat and the hurt

     C                             
Was taking the time now and then to
           G
 ask how I am

G
And now at the end, at the end of 
all things

G
I’m not going to scream, beat my 
chest at the wind

G
I’m doing fine