mewithoutYou – Magic Lantern Days (Guitar)

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Chords

Chords Used: F C Am Intro: C

C
Hail the blest atomic morn

Unto the earth a bomb is born

    Am
The pebble bed reactor core

Up to the sky ascends.

C
Hail the blest atomic sea,

Its mouth in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

      Am
Whose lips untouched with blasphemy

Our glowing eyes attend C Am

C
Bishops wrapped in Bedford cloth

Said pride would cast our victories off,

    Am
The Deep Blue to our Kasparov

Our moral thoughts impart.

C
Time will fill the rubbish yards

The Hospitals, the funeral yards

    Am
But neither time nor I

Can hold your 1985 Chernobyl heart

F
Brightest and best

                        C
Are the children of the morning.

F
Dawn on our darkness

                  C
And lend us thine aid

C
In unmysterious ways

We re-enacted closet plays

     Am
From charming, Magic Lantern days

For the android whales below

C
You'd be cast as the Nazarene

In the unrepenting desert scene

        Am
Near to me, your Mary Magdalene,

Our Lady of the Snow,

F
Brightest and best

                        C
Are the children of the morning.

F
Dawn on our darkness

                Am
& lend us thine aid

F                        C
Star of the west horizon deforming,

(Too many humans under the brown fog of winter)

F
Come dawn in our darkness.

              C
Lend us thine aid

F                                  C   Am
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid

F                                  C   Am
Guide where our infant redeemer is laid

F                                         C  Am
Come dawn in our darkness & lend us thine aid