[Intro]
F#m D Bm E
F#m D Bm E (x2)
[Verse 1]
F#m D
I look out to the fields
Bm E
Where blood is shed upon the ground
F#m D
I breathe in, breathe out
Bm E
Change the channel, mute the sound
F#m D Bm E
I take a match, a cigarette, and a walk to clear my head
F#m D Bm E
Stomach's reeling at the thought of all those (human beings dead)
F#m D
I breathe in, breathe out
Bm E
I'm going to an interview
F#m D
About a song, three minutes long
Bm E
I just need something to do
F#m D
Especially when my dearest friend
Bm E
Was sent to cover kosovo
F#m D
His last assignment brought a bullet
Bm E C#
And now he's gone, he's gone
[Chorus]
D A Bm F#m
Feels like I'm fiddling while rome is burning down
D A Bm F#m
Should I put my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground
D A Bm F#m
I need the ghost to breathe a northern gale tonight
D A F#m D Bm E (play intro)
'Cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
[Verse 2]
F#m D
I packed his books up, left the office
Bm E
Went to tell the wife the news
F#m D
She fell in shock, the baby kicked,
Bm E
And shed a tear inside the womb
F#m D
I breathed in, I breathed out,
Bm E
Soaked the gound up with my eyes
F#m D
It's hard to say a healing word
Bm E C#
When your tongue is paralyzed
[Chorus]
D A Bm F#m
Feels like I'm fiddling while rome is burning down
D A Bm F#m
Should I put my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground
D A Bm F#m
I need the ghost to breathe a northern gale tonight
D A
'Cause I'm paralyzed, I'm paralyzed
[Instrumental]
F#m D Bm E
F#m D Bm E
I breathe in, I breathe out
F#m D Bm E
I breathe in, I breathe out
F#m D Bm E
I breathe in, I breathe out
[Outro]
F#m D Bm E
F#m D Bm E
F#m D Bm E
F#m D Bm A C#
F#m D Bm A C#
F#m D Bm A C#
F#m