Out Among The Ruins

Transpose
Year: 2000
Album: Black River Falls

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  
E 
grounds 
 
 
Bm7 
 
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 
 
 
Ebm 
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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, 
 
 
Bbm 
frown 
 
 
Ebm 
 
He  
Bbm 
drank his  
Ebm 
savings
 
Fsus4 
Kneeling in silence in the  
Eb/G 
hope they’ll feed me
 
I  
F/A 
mention past lives but  
Bbsus4 
no one hears me
CHORUS 1
Ab 
Here comes the angel, un
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shockable, 
 
smiling
Eb/G 
Knowingness, 
 
knowingness
Bbaug 
Bidding 
 
 
C#maj7 
you be  
Cm 
human
 
Ab 
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 
 
 
Bm7 
 
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
Bbm 
lide? 
 
 
Ebm 
 
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  
Fsus4 
children were mean, only  
Eb/G 
fit for playtime
F/A 
Strangers on the hydro
Bbsus4 
carbon 
 
coastline
CHORUS 2
 
The  
Ab 
face of your lover, ex
Bb 
pression 
 
frozen
Eb7/G 
Knowingness, 
 
knowingness
Bbaug 
Breaka
C#maj7 
ble and  
Cm 
wooden
 
The  
Ab 
heart will perish what the  
Bb 
hand has chosen
Eb/G 
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
F/A 
And for me, there’s  
Bbsus4 
no 
 
God
 
They’ll  
Fsus4 
have me committed, to
Eb/G 
morrow 
 
maybe
 
Be
F/A 
queath every penny to  
Bbsus4 
Opus 
 
Dei
CHORUS 3
 
A  
Ab 
world of shadows, of for
Bb 
gotten 
 
meanings
Eb7/G 
Knowingness, 
 
knowingness
 
And the  
Ab 
glad companions’  
Bb 
smiles 
 
receding
Eb7/G 
Frozen now, long as death
 
As I  
Ab 
search for glimmers on the  
Bb 
loveless 
 
faces
Eb7/G 
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