Okkervil River - The War Criminal Rises And Speaks guitar chord
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I was slightly taken aback when I noticed there was no Okkervil River
tab on this site, so I decided to do it myself.
Hopefully with the transcription of this song, it will pave the way for more by this artist.
Email: the_boy42@hotmail.com Transcribed by A.J.
The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
By
Okkervil River
C Em
The heart wants to feel the heart wants to hold. the heart takes
Am F
past subway, past stop-and-shop, past beil's and calls it coming home.
Dm G Dm
The heart wants a trail away from alone so the heart turns a sale
F G C
into a well-worn milestone: the hard-won soft furniture fought-for
Em Am
fast food defended end-table that holds paperbacks and back U.S.
F Dm G Dm
news. the mind turns an itch into a bruise and the hands start to twitch
F G C
when there feeling ill used. But your almost back now,
Em Am
you can see by the signs: from the bank you tell the tempature, and then
Fm
the time, and the billboard reads some headlines.
Dm G
the head wants to turn to avert both it's eyes but the mind wants to
Dm F G
learn of some truth that might be inside reported crimes,
C Em
And they found a leutenent killed a village of kids.
Am
After finishing off the wives, he wiped his knife and
F Dm
that's what he did. and they're not claiming that there's any
G Dm
excusing it that was thirty years back and they just get paid
F G
for the facts, the way they got them in.
C
Now he's rising and not denying his hands are shaking but
Em Am
he's not crying and he's saying "How did I climb
F
out of a life so boring into that moment, please stop
C Em
ignoring the heart inside, Oh you readers at home!
Am
while you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the
F
time to make your heart my home, where I'm forgiven
Dm G
by time, where I'm cushioned by hope, where I'm numbered by long
Dm F G
drives, where I'm talked off or doped.
C Em
Does the heart want to atone? Oh, I believe that it's so, 'cause
Am
if I could climb back through time I'd restore their lives and then
F Dm G
give back my own. Tens of times now it's size, on a far distant road
Dm F
in a far distant time, where every night I'm still crying entirely
G
alone.
C G Em
But the news today always fades away as you drive by...till at
Am F G C
dinnertime when you look into her eyes, lit by evening sun that,
Em Am F Dm G
as usual comes from above that straight unbroken line: the horizon,
Dm G C Em Am F G
it's rising seems a given just like your living
C Em
The hearts warm and kind you mind is your own, so our blood-
Am F
spattered criminal is inscrutable don't worry he won't
Dm G
rise up behind your eyes and take wild control,
Dm Dm F G
say he's not of this time, he fell out of a hole.
(Or something like that)
