Dave Matthews Band – Mother Father (Guitar)

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[Intro] Em D Cmaj7 B7 [Verse]
Em
Mother Father please explain to me

D
Why a world so full of mystery

Cmaj7
A place so bitter and still so sweet

B7
So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad...

Em
Mother Father please explain to me

D
Why forests march to deserts speed

Cmaj7
Why snow capped mountains melt away

B7
What do we tell our babies, what do we say, oh
[Chorus]
Am
Mother Father please explain to me

Em
How a man rocks his child to sleep

Am
Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart

          Asus2/F#                         B7
He digs a hole right to the middle of this storm of hatred
[Verse]
Em
Mother Father please explain to me

D
How it could be so this world has come to be

Cmaj7
A precious balance in between

B7
Such cruelty and such kindness, please, please

Em
Mother Father please explain to me

D
How this world has come to be

Cmaj7
Unequaled in her blessings, oh I see

B7
Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me
[Chorus]
Am
Mother Father please explain to me

Em
How this world has come to be so

Am
Twisted between time and dreams

Asus2/F#                  B7
Oh Mother Father please explain to me
[Bridge]
Em     G
       Oh what's all this talk about

Bm7
All this talk about it

          Em
Spinning down, down, down, down, down

G
All this talk about

Bm7
Endless words without
Nothing's done [Verse]
Em
Mother Father do you know

D
Why one man's belly overflows

Cmaj7
Another sleeps in hunger's bed

         B7
Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread, oh

Em
Mother Father please explain to me

D
How this rare world's come to be

Cmaj7
A place so full of color

                               B7
and yet overflowing always in black and white, drowning in the waters of our...
[Chorus]
Am
Mother Father please explain to me

Em
How this world has come to be

           Am
While still blessed in all the things we see

       Asus2/F#          B7
Such a sad, sad home for you and me
[Bridge]
Em
      Come out, and hold

G
C'mon out you, c'mon out you, come on and save yourself

Bm7
C'mon I'll do, C'mon, we're taken the water

Em
We're taken the water, we're taken the water, but you know

G
We got the freedom!

Bm7
We got the freedom!

           Em
There's no God above and no hell below, oh

G
It's here with us, it's up to us

         Bm7
To keep afloat

Em                    G
            How this sweet world has come to be

        Bm7
Oh, to keep afloat

        Em
Mother Father please explain to me!

          G
How this rare world has come to be

            Bm7
Oh, let the blue planet, let the blue planet

Em                                      G        Bm7
Mother Father please explain to me

                       Em
Mother Father please explain