Intro: C
Am Am Am Am
Cos i know that time has numbered my days
Am Am F F C
And I'll go along with everything you say
Am Am Am Am
But I'll ride home laughing Look at me now
Am Am
Through the walls of my town
F F C
they come crumbling down
Am Am Am Am
And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons
Am Am F F C
And I know that choices colour all I've done
Am Am Am Am
But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son
Am Am F F C
I ain't never lived a year better spent in Love
Am G C F
Cos I'll know my weakness, know my voice
Am G C F G
And I'll believe in grace and choice
Am G C F
And I know perhaps my heart is fast
Am G C F G
But I'll be born without a mask
C (2x)
Am Am Am Am
Like the city that nurtured my greed and my Pride
Am Am F F C
I stretch my arms into the sky
Am Am Am Am
I cry Babel, Babel look at me now
Am Am
Through the walls of my town
F F C
The come crumbling down
Am Am
You ask where will we stand
Am Am
in the winds that will have
Am Am F F C
as all we see will slip into the cloud
Am Am Am Am
So come down from your mountain and stand where we been
Am Am F F C
You know our breath is weak and our body thin
C F C
Press my nose up to the glass
C
around your heart
C F F F C
I shoul've known I was weaker from the start
C F G F Am
You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
Am Am F C
To tear, tear them down
Am F F C
Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down
Am G C F
Cos I'll know my weakness, know my voice
Am G C F G
And I'll believe in grace and choice
Am G C F
And I know perhaps my heart is fast
Am G C F G
But I'll be born without a mask