Out Among The Ruins
Released in 2000 by Cooking Vinyl
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INTRO
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VERSE 1
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Two streets amid the rolling grassland
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Sighing trees hide the sanitorium
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grounds
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C#maj7
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They kneel to pray in amber sunlight
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Stained by glass, their spotlit shareworn,
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frown
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Sullen
rel
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ations,
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frown
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On the
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rake’s
pri
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vations,
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frown
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He
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drank his
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savings
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Kneeling in silence in the
Eb/G
hope they’ll feed me
I
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mention past lives but
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no one hears me
CHORUS 1
Ab
Here comes the angel, un
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shockable,
smiling
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Knowingness,
knowingness
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Bidding
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you be
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human
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Spawned from a nation with a
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heart of ashes
Eb/G
Knowingness,
knowingness
Bbaug
Out
a
C#maj7
mong the
Cm
ruins
VERSE 2
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Flowers in the windows for the drunken draymen
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The bad lung gone, they let him back in
E
town
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C#maj7
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And
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June came deathly to the tangled laneways
Then he saw her – could they but col
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lide?
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A
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flash of
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mournful
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eyes
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You’d
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better
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learn to
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sigh
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And
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relish
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exile
Their
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children were mean, only
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fit for playtime
F/A
Strangers on the hydro
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carbon
coastline
CHORUS 2
The
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face of your lover, ex
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pression
frozen
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Knowingness,
knowingness
Bbaug
Breaka
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ble and
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wooden
The
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heart will perish what the
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hand has chosen
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Knowingness,
knowingness
Bbaug
Out
a
C#maj7
mong the
Cm
ruins
VERSE 3
Fsus4
Kneeling in silence in the
Eb/G
hope they’ll feed me
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And for me, there’s
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no
God
They’ll
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have me committed, to
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morrow
maybe
Be
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queath every penny to
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Opus
Dei
CHORUS 3
A
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world of shadows, of for
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gotten
meanings
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Knowingness,
knowingness
And the
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glad companions’
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smiles
receding
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Frozen now, long as death
As I
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search for glimmers on the
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loveless
faces
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The only ones I see
Bbaug
Out
a
C#maj7
mong the
Cm
ruins
Bbaug
Out
a
C#maj7
mong the
Cm
ruins
FADE
Ab/C
Fm9
Bb6
Bbm/C#
Ab/C
Fm9
Bb6
Bbm/C#
Dm7