st Fret
Intro: G
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On tomorrow's painted wagon, in a yester-dreaming day
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I rode to Heaven never thinking I'd be back this way
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Now I'm standing at your doorstep with my halo turning grey
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Open up your gate, Mari-ana
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Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
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Mother I sought the chosen people
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But I found no one to comfort me
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
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Mother I climbed the highest steeple
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I found nothing to believe
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When they called my faults against the wall, I took my place in line
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And put my trust in priestly men to break the ties that bind
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But their straight and narrow highway's just a row of billboard signs
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Open up your gate, Mari-ana
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
C G
Mother I sang the sacred Psalter
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But no saviour came to comfort me
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Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
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I went naked to the altar
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I found nothing to believe
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So I set my feet to walking from the sidewalk to the sand
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In search of any saint or sage who knew the master plan
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And I wandered every back-road in that broken promised land
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Open up your gate, Mari-ana
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
C G
Mother I kept the plain and simple
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But no shepherd came to comfort me
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
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I stood shivering in the temple
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I found nothing to believe
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As lightning burns these bridges under, smoke will surely rise
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And the fables of my innocence blow lazy through the skies
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When timeless truths reveal themselves as little more than lies
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Open up your gate, Mari-ana
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
C G
Mother I razed the tainted chapel
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But no angel came to comfort me
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
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Mother I stormed the Tower of Babel
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I found nothing to believe
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So sticks and stones might break this body, words might wound my soul
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And phantom visions fly me where the faithful fear to go
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But when this story's over and my sun is sinking low
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Open up your gate, Mari-ana
D C G
Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
C G
Mother the years pass out of counting
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But no prophet comes to comfort me
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Lay me down in the dark womb of your love
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Mother I climbed the holy mountain
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I found nothing to believe
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Mother I climbed the holy mountain
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I found nothing to believe