The End Of Silence Chords by Elaine Brown

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Have you ever stood _ in the darkness of night, _ _ [F] screaming silently, you're a [C] man?
_ _ Have you ever hoped _ [Em] that a [Am] time would come _ [G] when your voice could [Ab] be heard in a [G] noonday sun?
[F] Have [C] you waited so long _ till your unheard song _ [F] has stripped away your very [G] soul?
_ Well then believe [F] it my friend, that [C] this silence [F] can end, we'll just have to get [G] guns
[C] and be men. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Has the cry to live _ when your brain is dead _ _ [F] made your body, hair, tremble [C] so, _ _ and have
unseen chains of [Am] too many years?
_ _ [G] Hurt you so [Ab] bad dear, you [G] can't shed tears.
[F] _ [C] Have so many vows _ from so many mouths _ _ _
[F] made you know that words are [G] just words?
Well then [C] believe it [F] my friend, [C] that this silence [F] can end, we'll just have to get [G] guns
[C] and be men. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You know that dignity, not just equality, _ _ _ [F] is what makes a [Fm] man a man.
And so you laugh at laws [Em] passed by a [Am] silly lot _ _ [G] that tell you [C] to give [Ab] thanks for what
you [G] already got, [F] _ [C] and you can't go on with this time-worn song _ [F] that just won't change
the way you [G] feel.
_ Well then [C] believe [F] it my friend, that [C] this silence [F] can end, we'll just have to get [G] guns
[C] and be men. _ _
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You don't want to think, _ _ you just want to drink, _ _ _ [F] both the sweet wine and the [C] gall.
_ _ You've been burning inside _ [A] for so [Am] long while, till [C] your old [Ab]-time grin is now [A] a crazed [F] man's smile.
[C] And the goal's so clear, _ and the time's [Cm] so near, _ _ [F] you'll make it or you'll break [G] the plow.
Well then [C] believe it my [F] friend, that this silence [F] can end, we'll just have to [G] get guns
[C] and be men. _
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Yes, it's time you know who you really are, _ _ [F] and not try whitewash [C] the truth.
_ _ You're a man, you see, [Am] and a man must be, _ whatever [G] he'll [Ab] be or [A] he won't be [F] free.
If [C] he's bound up tight, _ he'll hold back the night, _ _ [F] and there won't be no light [G] for day.
So you [C] believe it my [F] friend, that this _ [F] silence can end, we'll just have to [G] get guns and [C] be men. _
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