Chords for Hedge and Donna - Please Understand Me

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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Bm] Yes, your birds of stone are still resting in my _ [G] hair. _
I do _ [D] not mar. _ _ _
I broke their wings, they cannot fly and they [Bm] do not care. _ _
_ [G] _ They may [D] in time, _ but with [F#m] the fear of the flowers [Bm] to dust they'll fall.
They [F#m] are not kings, they are not gods, [Bm] they mean nothing at all.
Ah, [G] but you don't have to fly [A] to be free.
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_ Please [A] understand [D] _ _ _
_ [Bm] me.
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_ _ [E] I did [D] not challenge your faith.
Why did you [Bm] question my _ _ [G] ways?
_ Am _ [D] I alone?
_ I could not count each grain of sand and I could [Bm] not number every _ wave.
[G] _ You _ must [D] have _ known.
Oh, I've [F#m] the power of the moon, but I'm [Bm] surrounded in black.
To the [F#m] tides of your tears, I [Bm] must turn my back.
Ah, [G] but you don't have to sail [A] to cross the seas. _ _
[G] _ _ Please _ _ [D] _
understand _ [C#] me.
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[Em] _ [D] Perhaps we're closer to the truth [B] behind the distance of a lie. _
[G] _ _ I do [D] not. _
_ _ _ Perhaps the failure is not ours and [Bm] there's no reason why.
_ [G] _ We _ did [D] not grow, _ but [F#m] while the wind giants tried [Bm] to _ explain their size,
the ages [F#m] plain, the currents change and rearrange _ their highs.
And [G] the prophets tell of destiny.
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[G] _ _ _ Please _ [D] understand.
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[B] If [D] there be dreams of death without [Bm] songs of rejoice _
[G] _ _ in _ [D] my _ rhymes,
if there's no love on my lips, I [B] would not hear your voice _ [G] _ so much clearer [D] than mine.
There are [F#m] no riddles or words that [Bm] I've disguised for you.
All [F#m] I really want to say is I don't know what you should do.
_ [G] Ah, but you don't need your eyes [A] to see. _
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Please [D] understand _ _ _ _ [B] me.
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Yes, your bags of stone are still [Bm] resting in my _ [G] hair. _
I do [Bm] not _ mind.
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