Gary Louris - Dead Mans Burden Chords

[Verse 1]
D
All the ladies and the gentlemen
D
The life force
Bm
Who line up nose to nose just like
A
The hungry rows of eskimoes
G
Those of us with ravaged faces
G
Rarely laughed and took our places
D
Looked ourselves square in the mirror
D
Cowards caught in frozen fear
A
Delicate and difficult
A7
Sugar mixing with the salt
   D
We know it’s neither truth or fact
   D7
We know it’s not exactly that
 
 
[Chorus 1]
     G
It’s over soon
G
It will be over soon
G             D
Just like the buffalo
D
We killed the buffalo
A
It’s only then, when near to death
A
We learn to love our lives again
     G
Like when we were but little children
G                                D    Bm Dm7 D/C# Bm
Running wild among the fields of grass
 
 
[Dirge]
G            D/F#
Did you ever wonder
G                  D/F#
Why on earth we’re put here for?
G           D
Always bent around whose finger?
Bm
One among the sad and lonely
G       D/F#
With no dimension
G             D/F#
All that ever came between
G                D
Once were always never asking
Bm
Open half a mind to question
G                  D/F#
And the wolves are circling
G                  D
‘Round the huddled shivering
G            D/F#
And the holy human race
Bm
That only knows what’s on our faces
G                D/F#
When we’re tired of pretending
G               D/F#
And at last our fences mending
G                 D/F#
And a love that’s never ending
Bm
Lay it down, a dead man’s burden
G          D/F#
And all in cold despair
G           D/F#
Skyscr*pers scr*pe the air
G             D/F#
In the lonely homes we make
 
 
[Break]
Bm F#7 Bm
 
 
[Bridge]
Bm
The cold war is over
          F#7         Bm
Yeah, the cold war is done
Bm
The cold war is over
        F#7                 Bm
But the wounds, they linger on
 
 
[Rise]
Bm
When I was just a kid
  D
I wandered off and hid
G                          D
In the quiet corners of my own
  Bm
A solitary thief
    G                         D
Who borrowed words to make me believe
D/C#         Bm                 D
And then the skies, they opened wide
D             G                    D
On the broken-hearted trying to survive
D                   Bm                          D
But the world keeps spinning, it’s the wheel of life
D            G                  D
We’re out of sync, we’re out of time
D            Bm                  D
We’re out of touch, we’re out of time
D            G                  Dsus4 D
We’re out of sync, we’re out of time
 
 
[Verse 2]
D
As we lay within each other
D
In the backwoods
Bm
And those with matching memories
A
Are scribbling cryptic chronicles
G
Overlapped with fine distractions
G
Never stopping once to catch our
D                          Dsus4
Breaths, collective, never now
D
Regret or yearning, broken down
A                         Asus4
We are but bubbles on the surface
A7
Destined but to disappear
D
Some taken from us all too soon
D7
We know that life is never fair
 
 
[Chorus 2]
G
We’ll all be gone
G
Yes, we will all be gone
G             D
Just like the buffalo
D
We killed the buffalo
A
High above the dark blue vault
A7
Where freedom says it’s no one’s fault
G
The time has come, I’m fairly certain
G                                 D   Bm D/C# Bm
Lay it down, a dead man’s burden, hmmm
 
 
[Outro]
G
Now I’ve started
G                     D
Down a path that is uncharted
D      A
And it seems
A7                     D
That I’ll never be the same
D7       G
Now I’ve started
G                     D
Down a path that is uncharted
D      A
And it seems
A7                     D   D7
That I’ll never be the same
 
 
[Outro Solo]
G D A A7 D
G D A A7 D
A7 D
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