Chords for Broken Horses - Ulysses Dies at Dawn - The Mechanisms

[F#] _ Deep in my cups and my [A] whiskey
Sometimes the [B] screaming will cease
[E] [A] Free-flowing tears fall unnoticed
Numbness my [B] own air release
[F#] Some soldiers will [B] tell you [F#] that [A] warfare
Is just one more title [B] for hell
[F#m] The [B] _ devils [F#] get [G#] nightmares [A]
of all of their [E] victims as well [F#m] Broken horses _
[F#] Staring [A] _ [E] and still [F#m] Broken horses
Like all those [E] I [F#m] killed Broken horses _
Riding _ [B] me down [F#m] Broken horses _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ [F#m] Broken horses
See, Ulysses the Drunk was once Ulysses the [B] Soldier
And a high-ranking one too
[F#m] So it was they found themselves fighting at the siege of Ilium some twenty [Am] years ago
[B] It was a brutal [F#m] war of attrition against one of the best defended districts of the city
A war that Ulysses the Soldier was determined to win
[A] _ _ [B] _ [E] _ [F#m] After a decade of fighting
Still their defenses stood [B] firm
[F#m] Heartless and cunning and scheming
Victory [B] I would confirm
[F#m] Offering peace and departing
We honored our [B] valiant foes
[F#m] A statue that I had designed them
Sending a [B] message of [E] hope
On [F#m] broken horses
All that [B] were [F#m] broken horses
_ _ Shattered [B] by guilt [F#m] Broken horses
I _ [B] can't outrun these [F#m] broken horses
_ [D] Broken horses
[B] _ _ [F#m] Ulysses proposed a solution
Peace and independence [B] for Ilium free from the city's [F#m] clutches
Accords were drawn up, treaties were [A] signed
And [B] to [F#] commemorate this [F#m] historic occasion a vast statue was commissioned
[A] Honoring the district's history [B] as famed breeders of horses [F#m] back when such beasts still existed
It [A] was scanned for [B] bioweapons
It was scanned for [F#m] explosives
It was scanned for hidden soldiers
None were [B] found
And the gift was accepted
[F#m] And joy [B] was unconfined
[A] [B] It _ [F#m] _ _
was not, however, scanned for a faint, almost inaudible signal being broadcast of Ulysses' own design
Intended to gradually drive the listener to madness
Within a week all in Ilium was ripping and rending and tearing and blood
When they finally opened the gates there were none left alive
The war was over
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[A] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ Sometimes _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [A] _
[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ it's hard to remember
[A] The city was not [B] always here
_ [E] Animals long since [A] extinguished
Roaming with nothing [B] to fear
[E] _
[F#] Once they were [B] known [F#] as [A] equestrians
And Ilium honored [B] its past
[A] _ [B] Statues are all [F#] that remain [A] now
Their riders have [Em] fallen at last
From [F#m] broken horses _
Silent [B] and stoned Broken [F#m] horses _
_ [B] Like cracked and fractured bone Broken [F#m] horses
All _ _ [B] because of me [F#m] Broken horses Broken horses [E] Broken
[B] _ [F#m] _