New Model Army – Purity (Guitar)

    Am         F           G        C
The rains move eastward in waves of succession

Am                F              E
Drawing lines of grey across the sky

     Am               F         G           C
With history just as close as a hand on the shoulder

   Am          F            E
In hunger and impatience we cry

    Am             F          G             C
The battle against corruption rages in each corner

      Am                F                 E   
There must be something better, something pure

        Am         F                 G            C
And the call it is answered from the caves to the cities

         Am          F           E
Come the dealers of Salvation on Earth 

      Am                 F             G            C
We've seen the restless children at the head of the columns

        Am         F               E
Come to purify the future with the arrogance of youth

Am             F            G                C           
Nothing is as cruel as the righteousness of innocents

     Am          F           E
With automatic weapons and a gospel of the truth 

E              D      C                B
Revolution for ever, succession of the seasons

  C                 G            F                 E
Within the blood of Nature, all raised to rot and die

     F       E              
This purity, purity is a lie

     Am           F           G          C
Now immaculate conception in sterilised laboratories

Am       F          E
How the vanity goes on

          Am             F                 G          C
Or in the message of the preacher with his morals and obsessions

    Am           F          E
The wars that we wage upon ourselves

G                   F
Purity is a virtue, purity is an angel

Am                            E
Purity is for madmen to make fools of us all

   Am                   F           G                C
So forgive yourself my friend, all this will soon be over

     Am              F        E
What happened here tonight is nothing at all 

E              D      C                B
Revolution for ever, succession of the seasons

   C                 G            F                 E
Within the blood of Nature, all raised to rot and die

     F       E              
This purity, purity is a lie 

       Am         F               G           C
I will always see Brendan at that broken down piano

     Am               F    E
His fingers thick and red, shaking on the keys

Am              F        G            C
Battered by the years of alcohol and working

       Am               F               E
Still playing with the faith that never leaves

    Am          F               G                C
So sit us down, buy us a drink, tell us a good story

Am           F    E
Sing us a song we know to be true

  Am            F          G             C
I don't give a damn that I never will be worthy

Am           F      E                   
Fear is the only enemy that I still know