The War Criminal Rises And Speaks Chords by Okkervil River

_ _ _ _ _ _ The heart wants to feel
The [Em] heart wants to hold
The heart takes past [A] subway, past stop and shop, past Beals and calls it [F] coming home
The heart [Dm] wants a trail
away [G] from the lone home
So the heart [Dm] turns a sail
Into [F] a well-worn
[G] Milestone the [C] heart wants soft furniture
Fought [Em] for fast food
[Am] Defended and table that [A] holds paperbacks and [F] back you as news
the [D] mind turns an edge
_ [G] Into a bruise
And the [Dm] hands start to twitch when they're [F] feeling ill use
[G]
But you're [C] almost back now
You can [Em] see by the
sirens from the [Am] bank you tell the temperature and then the time and the [F] billboard reads some headlines the [Dm] head
wants to turn
to a
[G] But _ the [Dm] mind wants to learn some truth that might [F] be inside
reported crimes they [C] found a lieutenant
Kill the [Em] village of kids
After [Am] finishing off the wife he wiped off his knife, [F] and that's what he did
And they're [Dm] not claiming that
There's [G] any excusing
That was [D] 30 years back
And [Dm] they just get paid for the [F] facts the way they got them in now.
He's [C] rising and not
Denying his hands are [Em] shaking, but he's not crying
And he's saying [Am] how did I climb out of a life so boring and [F] to that moment
Please stop [C] ignoring the heart inside
Are you readers at all?
[Em] Why you gasping [Am] my bloody cries, oh, please take the time to make your heart my home
We're a [D] forgiving
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[G] _ We're
I _ _ _
[G] _ _ [F] Always [G] fades away as you [Am] drive by
[F] Till at dinner time when [C] you look into [G] her eyes _
[F] That by evening sun that as usual [Em] comes from both that straight and broken [F] line
the [Dm] horizon
_ [G] _ _ _
[F] It's right
_ [C] Seems again _
[F] Just like your
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[C] Heart's warm and time
Your mind [Em] is your own
So [Am] a blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable.
[F] Don't worry.
He won't
Rise up [Dm] behind your eyes
Take [G] wild control
Say he's [Dm] not a this time you fell out [F] of
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