Castaways

B (hold) B By shadowing G#m all the darkened fields F# of forgotten words G#m F# and civilian lives B through violence G#m through the changing guards F# through the grinding away G#m F# and the furious marching B E F# by gathering/the holy light B and weathering E F# a cast away life G#m (hold) and the rising fear B The hollowness G#m of the flags and gods F# that are raised in the air G#m F# in the wake of their raging B Your skinny arms G#m hold a lantern up F# on the brightest array G#m F# of the stars in their moorings B and summoning E F# the holy light B on their citadels E F# the blackening sky G#m F# the collapsing sun, the burning wall G#m F# that approaches our eyes G#m F# B you live again E F# in the shuddering light B of these images E F# this valediction G#m F# you are running from a rising tide B you are castaways