Intro: G Em C D x2
G Em C
When serpents come
D G
They cover the Christ Thorn
Em C
Two heads and cock heads
D G
Serpents feed of emotion
Em
Lidded eyes and smudged realities
C D G
Everything has two faces
Em C
One is earthly without true form
D
The other blackened and blackening
G Em
Mother is in the fields
C D
Father is in the fields
G Em C
You know well its tortured form
D G
It's locked within a particular place
Em C
It's locked within a particular form
D G
It's jailed by a falling light
Em C
With angles shapes and sighs
D G
It's held by twowood
Em C
It's held by threeplace
D
It's a name that has no name
G Em
Mother is in the fields
C D
Father is in the fields
G Em C
It's a form creating formless
D
Formless creating form
G Em C
Oh, four towers read them backwards
D G
Do not spell their sound
Em
Do not move to their lies
C
Speak the words
D G
And they create the universe
Em C
And
D
They destroy all universe
G Em
Mother is in the fields
C D
Father is in the fields
G Em
Heavy-lidded eyes
C
Do not mask the pain
D G
They shade us from the burning light
Em
Listen: one face one form
C D
One truth one light
G
I see it through the staining glass
Em C
I see it fractured in the world
(This is not true -
D
It's appearance only)
G Em
Mother is in the fields
C D
Father is in the fields
G
An eagle flies
Em
His bloody face
C
Behind bloody claws
D G
Behind bloody cause
Em C
His pain is blackened rain
D G
His reign is Romanzion pain
It is not finished
Em
It happens now
C D
Matchstick men in a matchstick world
G
Match the prick with the sickle
Em C
Make the sickle slice the corn
D
Time stops when he was thirty-three
G Em
And mother is in the fields
C D
Father is in the fields
G Em
Time stops when I'm thirty
C D
Time stops then
G
And time stops there
Then is now
Em
Why do we not see it?
C D
Time stops time breaks time holds
G
Time ceases
Em
The pestle grinds the mortar
C
The mortar turns to dust
D
The metal turns to rust
G
Words they fail
Em
And they fall apart
C
The Corn it dies
D
And is reborn
G Em
Mother is in the fields
C D
Father is in the fields
G Em
Blond hair moves in the blond corn
C
Boyd wears black
D
And he talks of death
G
But all his face
Em
Spell out light
C
Michael's on the roof
D
He's kissing a Rose
G
Blood drops come
Em
From the heart of her life
C
Something hangs
D
Above there in the skies
G
Something hovers
Em
Above his brown hair
C
Life la-las
D
In the background of light
G
And the birds don't sing
Em
When the curtain snaps
C
Anita's in Ireland
D
She's falling over rocks
G
Scars are for her scarring
Em
Scars are for her pain
C
And all her scars
D
Meet in a falling star
G Em
And some make money from weapons
Blood
C D
And some make money from hunger
Blood
G Em
And some make money from politics
Blood
C D
And some make money from fear
Blood
G Em
And some make money from religion
It's blood
C
The world falls apart
D
The world starts to cease
G Em
And mother is in the fields
C D G
Father has died in the fields