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August 6Th

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[Verse]
BmAug. 6th, carved in desks with old Dknives:
“Back when our common cause was Aalive
And--let’s say--the hyacinth fields were iBmn bloom
Children watched as the soldiers marched Dby
All the birds fell like frogs from the Asky
Prostrate in the streets every crescent Bmmoon
Lonesome offspring of which still rDesound
With the victimless sins of their authors passeAd down
And the remnants of loathsome, disjointed worBmlds
Along the short path round the lily pad pDond
With off-white deerskin wedding dress Aon
German songs, homemade bonnets like old-orderBm, amish girls jilted by squirrels
In the parks of Sioux FDalls haunted by church bells
Like ghosts of Aapplause and the earth deep down tire-stacked walls like
New BmMexico, peaceful as moth-bitten pincushion Ddolls making up myths about wounds without Acause...”
And sometimes when it’s quiet my heart feels likBme Guernica
[scenes from old air raid] on screens in blue Ddusk
Perfumed neighborhoods/graveyards the breath feels like Aflies in my lungs, voice like ambulance
Sirens whose Bmlight floods the ground
(“praying mantis spreads arms” said the Dlines of whose palm?)
Skyline shifting like clouds became A“airplane descends”
[fade to scenes on the ground] human Bmforeheads all smashed
Foreign cars upside down, insect Dmouths open wide
I stared down a huge insect, bright Ared-glowing eyes
[does it feel wrong to say a thought “meBmtastasized”?], legs on both highway sides
[Break]
F#m  A  G
(Said insect was mechanized!)
F#m  A  G  Em
F#m  A  G
(Said insect was mechanized!)

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August 6Th

by mewithoutYou

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F#m

[Verse]

Bm D

Aug. 6th, carved in desks with old knives:

“Back when our common cause was alive

And--let’s say--the hyacinth fields were in bloom

Children watched as the soldiers marched by

All the birds fell like frogs from the sky

Prostrate in the streets every crescent moon

Lonesome offspring of which still resound

With the victimless sins of their authors passed down

And the remnants of loathsome, disjointed worlds

Along the short path round the lily pad pond

With off-white deerskin wedding dress on

German songs, homemade bonnets like old-order, amish girls jilted by squirrels

In the parks of Sioux Falls haunted by church bells

Like ghosts of applause and the earth deep down tire-stacked walls like

Bm D A

New Mexico, peaceful as moth-bitten pincushion dolls making up myths about wounds without cause...”

And sometimes when it’s quiet my heart feels like Guernica

[scenes from old air raid] on screens in blue dusk

Perfumed neighborhoods/graveyards the breath feels like flies in my lungs, voice like ambulance

Sirens whose light floods the ground

(“praying mantis spreads arms” said the lines of whose palm?)

Skyline shifting like clouds became “airplane descends”

[fade to scenes on the ground] human foreheads all smashed

Foreign cars upside down, insect mouths open wide

I stared down a huge insect, bright red-glowing eyes

[does it feel wrong to say a thought “metastasized”?], legs on both highway sides

[Break]

F#m A G

(Said insect was mechanized!)

F#m A G Em

F#m A G

(Said insect was mechanized!)

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