Dawn Is Breaking

Am F Staring eyes silent screams Am F plastic tubes to carry fading dreams Am F preacher, servant in their hall Am F warm blood on the palace wall Am those who dine alone in hell F wearing grief in their lapel Am drop small change in wishing wells F the haunted tear that never fell F someone's dragging a ball and chain C looking for you in the pouring rain E while those who care give silent prayer for lovers going home Am If there was a brickwall surrounding the New York dream F if there were secrets locked in steel Am if there was a button you could press on the luck machine F if there was a place for wounds to heal Am if you were borne in the barbwire of your mother's womb F if you were hungry before you died Am if you say you left your bath all clean and white F you know, I know you lied F remember the poet who said it first C he was speaking of you and your difficult birth E how you can say a prayer for lovers going home Am Drinking from an empty cup E waiting for the rot to grow Am distant sounds that can't be heard E and no one knows F children who don't mind the rain G yet have no wish to die E whatever your own world could've been you'd feel better if you could cry Am F G C A Dm B7 E F C E F C E Dawn is breaking in the graveyard Am People massing in the street F trampled heads beneath their feet Am children playing with the dead F silver spoon stained with red Am watching through a widow's veil F as Caesar desecrates the Holy Grail Am you sit all alone in your front row seat F you look so small and frail Am you're mud on the feet of the men you've damned F you're darkness come too soon Am you should be selling two-bit watches and girly photographs F masterpiece in ruin Am you're a pantomime of old world courtesy F you should have a degree in harlotry Am you should be incarcerated in an apartment tower F with no technology Am did you ever listen to the poles opposed to you F did you ever stop to ask? Am did you ever smile and hide your wasted lips F did you ever lift your mask? Am did you ever walk with your feet on by F till they take your place in line? Am did you know that you belong F where wrong is right and right is wrong? Am did you really think that you'd be left where F Am power is life and life is death?