Chords for Marianne Faithfull - That's How Every Empire Falls @Lycabettus, Athens 07/06/2011

_ _ Are you [Bbm] okay?
Yeah, everybody there [C] okay? _
_ _ [F] So this is a song by RB Morris, which I love.
It's very Toulon-esque actually.
[B] More, um, insouciant, if you know what I mean.
[N] It's called, That's How Every Empire Falls.
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_ _ _ _ He caught [F] a train from Alexandria
[Bb] Just a broken man in slum
_ Running scared with [F] all his devil
_ [Bb] Making prayers all through the night
Oh, but [F] mercy can't find him
[Eb] Not in the [Bb] shadows where he calls
Forsaking all his better [F] angels
[Eb] That's how every empire [Bb] falls _ _ _
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The bells ring out on [F] Sunday morning
_ [Bb] Like echoes from another time _
All our [F] innocence and yearning
[Eb] And sense of wonder [Bb] left behind
Oh, gentle [F] heart, remember
[Eb] [Bb] What is that story, is it lost?
For when religion [F] loses vision
[Bb] That's how every empire falls
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He toasts his wife [F] and all his family
[Ebm] The providence he brought to bear
[Bb] They raise their [F] glasses in his honor
[Eb] [Bb] Although his union they don't share
A man who [F] lives among them
[Eb] Was still a [Bb] stranger to them all
For when the [F] heart is never open
[Eb] That's how [Bb] every empire falls
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The door [Fm] at the window
_ [Eb] Put the people on the street _
[Bb] It's just my job, [Fm] he says, I'm sorry
[Eb] [Bb] Draws a check, goes home, take he _
But at night [F] he tells his woman
[Eb] You know I hide [Bb] behind the law
She says you're only [F] taking orders
[Eb] That's how every [Bb] empire falls
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A hard rain falls on [F] the ocean
[Eb] A hard rain falls [Bb] on the sea
If terror comes [F] without a warning
[Bb] There must be something we don't see
What fire, he [F] gets this fire
Like [Eb] torches thrown [Bb] into the straw _
She [F] loses me
_ [Eb] That's how every [Bb] empire falls _
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