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| chords FATHERS OF OUR FATHERS From down in the mine, to the statues on high The names that they leave lose their meaning with time The hands they'd shake and the hands that they'd bind All are hands like yours and mine And the chains we're still dragging, the broken branches of family That hang neath the shadows of the ones we love madly Each generation leaves the next to overcome The failed promise of the things they've done And the fathers of our fathers May their anger be buried with their bones And the daughters of our daughters They need not know And I know there were times you felt on the outside Hearing the rush of the freeway through your window at night Well baby I got my own road that divides The line I walk with the bed I lie And no matter what you do to me you got nothing to prove to me I'll love you in the judgement of the morning light, you should see I'm gonna love you when the money's all gone In the black of night, in the blue of dawn And the fathers of our fathers May their anger be buried with their bones And the daughters of our daughters They need not know We got work to do This ain't easy for me and you This ain't easy for anyone Never met no one whose work was done The fathers of our fathers lifted in steel, frozen in stone And the bodies that lie neath the dawn's early light Stay unknown Yeah the fathers of our fathers May their anger be buried with their bones And the daughters of our lovely daughters They need not know |