[Intro]
Em Am G D Em G Em
[Verse 1]
Em Am G D
By the time we're done with dancinge elsewhere darling you'll be glancing
Em Am D G
And the night's a river-torrent tearing us apart
Em Am G D
Merely melody entwined us easily the ties that bind us
Em G Em
Break in fibrillations of the heart
[Verse 2]
Em Am G D
Don't cry out or cling in terror, darling that's a fatal error
Em Am D G
Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours
Em Am G D
Dispossession by attrition is a permanent condition
Em G Em
That the wretched modern world endures
[Chorus 1]
D G
You drift away, you're carried by a stream
D Em
Refugee a wanderer you roam;
D G
You lose your way, so it will come to seem:
B Em
No Place in Particular is home
D G
You glance away, your house has disappeared
D Em
The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled
D G
You live adrift, and everything you feared
B Em
Comes to you in this undoing world
[Verse 3]
Em Am G D
Copper-plated, nailed together, buffeted by ocean weather
Em Am D G
Stands the Queen of Exiles and our mother she may be
Em Am G D
Hollow-breasted broken-hearted watching for her dear departed
Em G Em
For her children cast upon the sea
[Verse 4]
Em Am G D
At her back the great idyllic land of justice for exilic
Em Am D G
Peoples ponders making justice private property
Em Am G D
Darling never dream another woman might have been your mother
Em G Em
Someday you may be a refugee
[Chorus 2]
D G
A refugee, who's running from the wars
D Em
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
D G
Eternally a person out-of-doors
B Em
Desperate in this undoing world
[Interlude]
Em Am G D
Em Am D G
Em Am G D
Em G Em
(x2)
[Chorus 2]
D G
A refugee, who's running from the wars
D Em
Hiding from the fire-bombs they've hurled;
D G
Eternally a person out-of-doors
B Em
Desperate in this undoing world
[Verse 5]
Em Am G D
Mother for your derelicted, children from your womb evicted
Em Am D G
Grant us shelter harbor solcae safety, let us in!
Em Am G D
Let us tell you where we traveled, how our hopes our lives unraveled
Em G Em
How unwelcome everywhere we've been