Saviour Machine - American Babylon guitar chord
"American Babylon"
by: Saviour Machine
album: Saviour Machine II
written by: Saviour Machine
from: kpaju@sci.fi (Kalle Paju)
(C) 1994 By the author and the composers (GEMA)
This is very beautiful song for piano, but I'm
not very good piano player so I took my guitar
and here's the result! It's fun to play it with
guitar too. Near the end Jeff plays some nice licks
but I don't know yet how they actually go so here
is only the chords. I hope you enjoy it.
Intro:
Dm-C x4
Dm C
A thousand bloody hand prints stain the walls of liberty,
Dm C Dm
a stranger hides in dreams denied, awaiting his release.
C
I've seen this picture before.
Dm C
I never thought that we would end up here.
Dm C
When fascism comes as an angel of light
Dm C Dm
its license parading as tyranny drives forth its son.
Bb-Gm-Ebmaj7-Dm-Bb-Gm-Ebmaj7
Dm C
The son of morning dominating fears,
afflicting fallen men.
Dm C Dm
His body highly organized; it's coming into prominence
C
to bear its ominious warnings.
Dm C
It's in your blood to comprehend its origin,
Dm C
for those who refuse to remember the past are
Dm
condemned to repeat it,
C Dm
the first and the last, dust to dust...
Bb-Gm-Ebmaj7-Dm-Bb-Gm-A
Dm Bb F C
History is his story
Gm Dm
and life is laughing at its peril.
F C Dm
Building towers that come forth in men,
F C Dm
Shifting powers consuming us within,
F C A
they will puzzle the apostles till the end.
Dm A Bb C F C Dm
Enter into the silence, into the dying life of America,
C Bb A Dm
the brave, the slave, the grave.
C-Dm-C
Dm-A-Bb-Gm-A-F-Bb-A x2
Dm A Bb Gm
The shattered pigs dying as primitive savages,
A F Bb A
eating their flesh, they will lie rotting in dirt,
Dm A Bb Gm
while a stranger among you has challenged the course
A F Bb A
of inhuman existence and alien forces.
Dm A Bb Gm
The birth of a black prince is setting the stage
A F Bb A
in its thriving dissension, exalting his rank,
Dm A Bb Gm
and the innocent man will fall victim to hands in the
A F Bb A
trial of the truth and its twisted reversal.
Dm A Bb Gm
The union of factions bleeds shock to the system,
A F Bb A
for civilization has ended today.
Dm A Bb Gm
The transitional nature of acts and society
A F Bb A
climbs in its place while its face re-creates
Dm Bb F C
until your god is dead.
Gm
Enlighten me with your pale statues,
Dm
face of inhibition,
Bb F C Gm
and until your reign has ended, frighten me with your
Dm
stale-taste-tongue of inquisition.
F C Dm F
In your eyes I will come forth in men with no justice,
C Dm
no order to defend,
F C A
and the stone will be cast again..
Dm A Bb C F C Dm
Enter into the fire, into the bloody gates of America,
C Bb A Dm C
the great, the fate, the late.
Dm-C
