[Verse 1]
F#m C#
Bang went the gun on their tongue
F#m Bm
Word crucifixion toward immigrants shunned
E C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
"Immigrants. That's who we all are
A A/Ab F#m
'cause we're all made of stars,"
D
you said to them
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
Oh yes you did
[Verse 2]
F#m C#
Bang went the universe
D#m/A# Bm
Hydrogen lusting for helium's burst
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A mighty sun's dance of death, exp--lo----ding
A Bm F#m
Su-per nova
D
One story's end,
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
seeds another to begin
[Chorus]
D F#m
Then the heavens opened and then
D F#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas
D A C# D
breathlessly. I saw your star
[Bridge]
A G A
So bright it blinded me
D G F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A G A
So bright it blinded me
D G F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A G A
So bright it blinded me
D G F#m
I had to shield my eyes
D Bm
And then you took my hand
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
Oh yes you did
[Verse 3]
F#m C#
Bang the world. Now traumatized
D#m/A# Bm
by a cluster of hostile humans who side
E C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
with their warlords of hate so we must
A Bm F#m
out-create
D
with 'The Backbone of Night'
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
to re-humanize
[Chorus]
D F#m
Then the heavens opened and then
D F#m
I heard voices joined in hosannas
D A C# D
breathlessly. I saw your star
[Bridge]
A G A
So bright it blinded me
D G F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A G A
So bright it blinded me
D G F#m
I had to shield my eyes
A G A
So bright it blinded me
D G F#m
I had to shield my eyes
D Bm
And then you lit the path
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
Oh yes you did
[Outro]
F#m C#
"Can't they see," he said to me,
D#m/A# Bm D C#
"that we all are molecular machines?"
D F#dim/C
Goals and dreams. All I wanna be
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
is the very best machine I can be
F#m C#
Oxygen and Carbon
D#m/A# Bm D C#
part of our molecular machines
D F#dim/C
Goals and dreams. All I wanna be
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
is the very best machine I can be
F#m C#
Hydrogen, calcium
D#m/A# Bm D C#
phosphorus, po--tassium, sulfur
D F#dim/C
Sodium. All I wanna be
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
is the very best machine I can be
F#m C#
Chlorine, magnesium
D#m/A# Bm D C#
Boron, chromium, cobalt
D F#dim/C
Copper, fluorine. All I wanna be
C# C#/B C#/A C#/G#
is the very best machine I can be
F#m C#
Iodine, iron, manganese
D#m/A# Bm D C#
Molybdenum, nitrogen, selenium, silicon, tin
D F#dim/C
vanadium, and zinc. All I wanna be
Bm C# F#m
a molecular machine.