Chords for Blackbird Raum - Cities

[A] _ [Am] I look down on [Am] the city, [G]
[Am] it's burning, [F#] it's burning.
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Everything's prettier [E] at night.
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[Am] Flames are [G#] all [Am] leaping, [Am] they're eating the [Am] buildings.
[F] Oh, Ryan, la [E] guerre a trance. _
[Am] The stars are [Am] all twinkling, [G] they're [F#] mirroring the dance
[F] of the flames as they reach [E] toward the sky.
_ [Am] I'm hoping [C] and I'm praying for a better [D] [F] tomorrow,
at least one that isn't [E] so bright.
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[E] _ _ _ _ [Am] Fire is growing, [Am] [F#] engulfing the city.
[F] The flames are gone, [E] Lord, and I'm lost.
So [Am] bright, [G#] so [Am] bright that [Am] the stars [F#m] are [F] forgotten.
The only god [E] left is the moon.
_ [Am] The people are crying out, [Am] screaming, [C] they're [F] dying.
Those living are [E] left without homes.
[Am] But their houses were built on the [F#] blood of [Am] some other,
[F] another who is [E] yet unknown.
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_ _ [Am] want to go [G] down [F#] there and walk through the [F] city,
meet from a [E] heart in those flames.
[Am] I [D] see someone [Am] standing, [F#] a stranger in shadows.
[F] I greet him, he [E] calls out my name.
[Am] I say, ha, we've succeeded, [C] the [F#] city's defeated.
[F] We've accomplished [E] what hope became.
He [Am] said, [C] well, don't you know that's the work [F#] of the [F] mortal?
The sun and the [E] starlight's ablaze.
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[D] _ [E] _ _ [Am] The fire has burned out, the [F#] embers are [C] cooling.
[F] The ash falls, it [E] looks just like snow.
_ [Am] The children who survived and the ghosts of those who [F] didn't
are playing like there's no [E] tomorrow.
_ [Am] In the center of the city, the [F#m] old gods [C] have gathered
[F] to survey their [E] new masterpiece.
_ [Am] They discuss the pros and cons of [F] destruction
and welcome [Dm] the [E] newly deceased.
[Am] And Orion's still laughing, he's holding his [F] side
and I see robes on the floor [E] in the sky.
[Am] As I realize that I'm not an immortal,
[F] the stranger in [E] shadows appears at my side.
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