Chords for Nature And Organisation - Bloodstreamruns

_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Bm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [G] As I [Em] descended with the dog's blood rising,
[C] So then [A] I ascended to the thunder-perfect [G] mine. _
[Bm] Great [D] grey blood-speckled [Am] slabs of slate have [Em] fallen.
This is my vision in the croaking, jeering world. _
[C] All idiotic faces [E] and swollen [A] hearts.
[G] In the papers the [Bm] faces are not real.
[Dm] In the world the [Am] faces are not real.
[Em] In the heart of the heart the face is real.
[G] _ [Em] The dead die of brawl.
The [C] crows fly.
[A] The wolves fly.
And four poorly [G] painted cardboard [Bm] horsemen sheet over the [Dm] back of the winds.
[Am] They are not legion, [Em] but clothes.
_ _ [A] God [C] walked on earth in [Em] those days.
_ _ [A] Now, [C] _ _ [G] still, in [F#m] my heart, he [Em] walks still.
_ _ [G] _
[Em] In the green fields far away there is a solid [C] tree.
[F#] Mother and the signs she makes.
On the [G] broken horse zodiac [Bm] signs yellow face [Dm] passes.
[Am] All the rainbow her [Em] arms were.
All books piled up in [G] dirty heaps.
[Em] Crater-like surface, pity.
_ [C] Oh, [E] bellissima, la [G] grana.
If [Bm] the sea horse was [Dm] golden, cold [Am] and talking [Em] back the bloody streams of God's own [G] pain,
why [Em] should we have compassion for others when God [C] himself has had no [E] pity on [A] others?
Take back [G] the bloodsweat, she said.
Certain [D] colors came from her body.
[Am] She is [Em] alone.
_ _ _ [A] God [C] walked on earth in [Em] those days.
_ [A] Now, [C] _ _ [G] still, [F#m] in my heart, he [Em] walks still.
_ _ [Am] _ [C] And the broken [G] face of this horizon world [C] is covered [G] by _
[D] crystal [Am] cross ice.
[C] And the broken [G] face of this horizon [Am] world [C] is covered [G] by [D] crystal [Am] cross ice.
[C] When this whole [G] wide, eyeless [D] _ [Am] world sighs, [C] this eyeless [G] world sighs.
[D] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[A] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[D] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] All [Em] the stars are souls.
Each single planet is [C] the life flame of the [B] nothing he eternally spun.
[G] I cannot believe, despite the evidence of one god [A] eye and one dwarf eye,
that this world [Em] is God's own blood-red, grass [G]-green, blue, [Em] black, sky-pine paradise.
[C] _ [Am] When I lay in the arms of [A] one woman, I said to her, [G] silent, _
_ _ [D] _ [A] though you glow as you [Em] shall, though you die, die, [G] die, sleep, [Em] as you shall die,
I will [C] love you [E] always between your bodies.
I pray that [G] I shall be forever thine.
[D] If I say to you, [A] love, then listen, [Em] you shall be crowned above all.
[G] God [Em] walked on earth in those days.
[C] Now, [E] I see you [A] _ [G] in my heart.
_ [D] You walk still.
[A] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _