The Divine Comedy – Achilles (Guitar)

Em
 I saw a man this morning

G
 Standing on a foreign shore

Bm
 From his eyes tears were falling

Em                    A7
 As he made ready for war

Em
 He shouted out a warning;

G
 You slew my sweetest friend

Bm
 And as sure as day is dawning

Em                   A7
 His death will be avenged

Dm                    Bb
Was it so hard to die, Achilles

C               A7
So very hard to die?

Dm                           Bb
You know and I know not, Achilles

Gm                 C
So much the happier I

Dm                                 Bb
You breached the walls of Troy, Achilles

  C                   A7
Slaughtered a thousand men

Bb                  Gm
Patroclus is destroyed, Achilles

Em7b5     A7           Dm
 And can't come back again

Em
 I saw a man this morning

G
 Trudging through a muddy field

Bm
 From the sky a shell was falling

Em                                A7
 With his name scratched in the steel

Em
 Lend him your shield, Achilles

G
 Ask the gods to be his guide

Bm
 All he has is A Shropshire Lad

Em                           A7
 With this poem scrawled inside

Dm                    Bb
Was it so hard to die, Achilles

C                     A7
So very hard to die?

Dm                           Bb
You know and I know not, Achilles

Gm                   C
So much the happier I

Dm                      Bb
Look to the starry skies, Achilles

C                       A7
Look to the silver seas

Bb                       Gm
They Do not live or die, Achilles

Em7b5 A7          Dm
 And  neither Do we

                      Gm
I saw a man this morning

C                        Am
 He was turning fifty-three

Dm                              Bb
 And his pampered mind was turning

Gm                           C
 To thoughts of mortality

Dm                     Bb
 One day I will be nothing

C                           Am
 Think how funny that will feel

Bb       Gm
 For we, the living

Em7b5    A7           Dm
 Death is the Achilles heel