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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _
Bm _ _ .
_ _
G The cerebrum has suffered massive irreparable
Bm damage.
_ You
G never know what has happened to him.
_ .
If I
Bm had not been sure of this, I would not have
A permitted
D him to live.
_
Gm _ Father, _
Em I
F# need help.
B _
Bm _ _ _ _
G What is Demarcus?.
What is
B Demarcus?.
Bm He's got something to do with
G young men killing each other.
Bm When it comes, Marcus, _
A will you want
D me to go?.
For Demarcus,
G _ any man would give his only
E begotten son.
F# _
B _ _
G _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _
Bm _ _
G _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _
Bm _ _ .
_ _ _
D _ _ _ _
G _ .
_ _
D# _ _
B _ _ _ _ .
_ Is it
G possible for a deserter of individuals to experience any pleasure
D memory?.
Bm _ _ .
_
A _ _
G This young man will be as I'm
E here.
F# I think
G that's the day.
D The day he joins us.
_
G I don't know whether I'm alive
F or dreaming or dead in your
Em memory.
How can you tell what's
D a dream and what's real when you can't even tell
G when you're awake and when you're
F asleep?.
_ _
Em Where am I?
.
C _
B _
Bm I can't remember
G _ .
anything.
_ Can't tell if this is true
D or a
Bm dream.
Deep down
F#m inside I feel the
G scream.
This terrible
Em silence
F# stops me.
B _
Bm Now that the war
G is through with
Bm me.
I'm waking
G up, I
D cannot
B see.
Bm That there's
A not much
G left of me.
_ Nothing is
Em real but
F# pain
G now.
A Oh, my breath
G is
A high with no day.
_ .
Oh,
C please
C# God,
D wake me.
G I just went ahead and chopped off
F everything.
Oh, God.
Em Please make them hear me.
D They won't listen.
_
G They won't hear me.
F You know what death will
Em be like just for you to hear
C me.
B _ .
Bm Back in the womb it's much too real.
Income's life
G that I
D must
Bm feel.
But can't look
A forward to
G reveal.
_ Look to the
Em time
F#m when I
B will.
G Head to the doom that's chasing
Bm me.
Just like a
G wartime
D novelty.
Bm _ .
Tied to machines
A that make me
G be.
Cut this life off from me.
Oh, my
G breath is
F# high
B with no
A day.
_ Oh,
C please
C# God,
D wake me.
_
G _ _ _ _
Dm _ .
_ _
Em _ _ _
D _ _ _ .
_
G _ _ _
F _ _ _ _ .
Em _ _ _
D _ I
G _ _ .
can't live
F like this.
I
Em can't.
Please, no, I can't.
I can't.
G Help me.
Somebody please help me.
Mother?.
F Where are you?.
Help me, Mother.
I'm
Em having a nightmare.
I can't wake up.
G _ .
A The
G world has
F# gone _
B A swan.
_ .
Oh,
B God,
C# help
G me.
Oh,
A my
G breath
F# is high with
B no
A day.
B _
A Oh, please
C# God,
G help
A me.
G _
F# _
B _
Am _ _ .
D _ _
G _ _ _
B _ _ _ .
C _ Me
Am lying here
D like
G _ .
some
B freak in a carnival
C show.
Here's
Am the island.
_ Lakeland.
G Wanda.
120
B centuries.
_ .
_
C _ _ _
Am _ _ _
G _ .
_ _
B _ _ _ _
C _ _ .
_ _
F# _ _ _ _ _
B _ .
_
C This has a dignity of
Em all its own.
_ .
D _ _ _
B _ _ _
C _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _
E _ _ I need help.
_ .
_ _ _ _ Don't you remember when you were little?.
_
E Oh, you don't feel a heartbreak, do you, sir?.
F I know why everything is so hard.
Just so you can celebrate
E with each other.
You don't remember the Morse code?.
_ _
F _ _
E It's preventing me.
All that I see.
Absolutely all that I live.
I _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _
F _ can't.
D It's the Morse code.
_
F E A what?.
S
F-O-S.
D _ _
E Help.
Lying behind.
That's taking my sight.
Taking my speech.
Taking my hearing.
_ _ _ .
Em Taking my soul.
F Everyone likes me.
E Yeah.
_ _ .
_
F What's he saying?.
_ You've been killing me.
_
E Over and over again.
_ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ Don't you
F have some message for my father?.
He's the product of your profession.
_ _ Not mine.
_
E _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _
C _ _ _ .
_ _
Em _ _ _ _
Am _ _ .
F _ _ _
Em _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
G Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ .
_
F _ _
G _ _ _ _ _ .
F you.
_ _
G _ _ _
F _ .
_ _ _
Gm _ _ _ _
F _ .
_ _ _
G _ Let it
D be.
Please.
E Father.
_
F _ Each man takes a different route.
E _ _ _ _ _
C _ _ .
_
D _ _
F# _ _ _ _ _ .
_
Em _ _ _ _ _ It's my duty.
Nobody pays any attention.
I had arms.
_ .
I had legs.
I could run away.
I had voice.
Am I could talk to people.
Em I could help people myself.
Why don't they get it over with and kill me?.
I could yell for help.
But
F nobody helped me.
I'm just that.
I can't see how I'm going on like
G this.
_ _ _ _
F# _ _ _
Gm _ _ _
G _ _
A#m _ _ .
_ _ _
E _
F _
E _ _ _ .
_ _ _ _
G _ _ _ _ .
E _ _ _
F _
C _ _ _
E _ .
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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A# _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .