The Felice Brothers - We Shall Live Again

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
D G A
I boarded the Pullman somewhere east of Council Bluffs
D G A
I’ve been riding this train to the west now for so long that I can’t remember when
G A
The clouds are at the winds command
D G
A great extinction is close at hand
D A D
But we shall live again

[Chorus]
D G
We shall live again
D A
We shall live again
G A
Though our religions the same as the pigeons
G A
From Francis of Assisi
D G
To the fans of AC/DC
D A D
We all shall live again

[Verse 2]
D G A
The nightingales were seized with a panic
D G A
As warplanes flew over the green Atlantic
G A
But the day was fair beyond compare
D G
And the long parade and the serenade
D A D
And we shall live again

[Chorus]
D G
We shall live again
D A
We shall live again
G G#dim A
We’ll be painting roses with grandma Moses
G A
And we’ll feel just as free and young
D G
As those flowers we stand among
D A D
And we shall live again

[Verse 3]
D G
Well this train is like an endless parade
A
It passes by each and every home in each and every town
D G A
And the women and the children and the men they hover to the doorways and the windows
G A
Some hop on board some wave farewell
D G
Or weep at the beauty of the crossing bell
D A D
But we all shall live again

[Verse 4]
D G A
I been in most of these motels on the edge of reality
D G A
I even rode my donkey over the mountains of Argentina
G A
Some die on the steppes of a frozen wasteland
D G
Some OD on the road to Graceland
D A D
But we all shall live again

[Chorus]
D G
We shall live again
D A
We shall live again
G A
I find these truths to be self evident
G A
In this life where any joyful thing
D G
Is paid two fold in suffering
D A D
We shall live again

[Verse 5]
D G A
Well the train pressed on under nights crumbling wave
D G A
Through the dreamlike districts of the vanished days
G A
A dead man falls from a trotting horse
D G
The rivers run backward to their ancient source
D A D
But we all shall live again

[Verse 6]
D G A
Well the dinning car is filled mostly with victorian era ghosts
D G A
And some sharpshooters firing at angels like startled ducks on the horizon
G A
But you’re with me here when I close my eyes
D G
Giving alms to trembling palms
D A
Your eyes so green and labyrinthine

[Verse 7]
D G A
Remember Hegel, that beautiful son of a bitch
D G A
Or Marcel Proust, you thought he ruled the roost
G A
He’s drinking a drink that’s black as ink
D G
Watching a candied cherry sink
D G A
It’s like the sorrow of the world distilled

[Chorus]
D G
We shall live again
D A
We shall live again
G A
All the great nations of the western plains
G A
There will be no more anguish and no more fear
D G
And no more bloodshed on the red frontier
D A D
And we shall live again

[Verse 8]
D G A
The wind took my train up into the chasms of the sky
D G A
And in the air hung a golden trumpet
G A
Some warn of heaven and its narrow gate
D G
The baby angels are armed and overweight
D G A
As they float above the turnstile and sing

[Chorus]
D G
You shall live again
D A
You shall live again
G A
This world is ours and all the stars
G A
It’s like the icing on the cake of death
D G
And the only word that rhymes is breath
D A D
We shall live again

[Outro]
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G G#dim A
G A D G
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