[Verse 1]
Am
Pale horse songs of a slow decline
F
Sideshow words if the songs don't mind
C
G-d gave Noah the rainbow sign
F
No more water, is the H-Bomb next time?
Am
Pale horse vows in a grave I-do-yes-definitely reply
F
Smile for the camera at a 'church' nearby
C
Threw a mute curse at the Boise sky
F
For my fucked up Napoleon-of-St.-Helena-hairline
Am
Black horse leaping when the frogs withdrew
F
The parable of the plums where the olives grew
C
Clouded rearrangement of sounds we knew:
F
An Idaho sunset for my own private Waterloo
Am
Pale horse songs of a slow decline
F
Side show words if our moms don't mind:
C
Cloud gave no one a rainbow sign--
F
Six-point starred ink flag next time?
[Instrumental]
Am F C F x2
(End with one strum on Am until Aaron starts singing the Hebrew/Arabic verse)
[Verse 2] (read from right to left)
F C F Am F C F Am
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[Instrumental]
Am F C F x2
[Verse 3]
Am
With imperial crowns we were 'sent'
F
Riding out conquest-bent
Daylight is breaking
C
Wielding the sanctified sword
F
For the army of the Scarecrow Lord
Daylight is breaking
Am
Balancing scales at our feet
F
Measuring out two pounds of barley, six pounds of buckwheat
C
Beasts of the Battersea Shield
F
At the opening of the fourth seal
Am
The sky, I'd been told
Would roll up like a scroll
F
As the mountains and islands moved from their place
C
And the sun would turn black
As a dead raven's back
F
But there's nowhere to hide
From the Judge's face
Am
After which message-less birds take flight without cause
F
To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws
C C F
Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned
[Verse 4]
Am
The other night I dreamt I was finally out of college
F
In my own pair of sandals, I had turned into my father
C
Whistling our tune about the Rio Grande
F
Like an anchorite in June I took hold of my own hand
Am
And started on the Abrahamic joke we knew
F
About apostrophes and pronouns and you-remember-who
C
"But let's keep that silly punchline between me and you
F
Little Haroon
Am
And the man in the moon."
[Outro] (one strum per chord)
Am F C F
Am