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Picture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free,Dizzy with eternity
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Painted with a skin of sky brush in some clouds and sea
Bm A Call it home to you and me
Bm A E AA peaceful place or so it looks from space.
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A closer look reveals the human race
Em7 A Em7 Full of hope full of grace is the human face
Bm ABut afraid we may lay our home to waste
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There's a fear down hear we can't forget. Hasn't got a name just yet
E D A E D A Always awake always around, singing' ashes ashes all fall down
Bm A E ANow watch the ball revolves as the nighttime falls
Bm G AAnd again the hunt begins, and again the blood wind calls
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By and by again, the morning sun will rise.
Bm A But the darkness never goes from some men's eyes
Bm A E AIt strolls the sidewalks and it rolls the streets
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Staking turf dividing up meat
Em7 A Em7 Bm A Nightmare spook peace of heat, you and me, you and me
E D A E D AFlash switch blade in the ghetto night. Rudies looking for a fight
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Ratcat alley roll them bones, need that cash to feed that jones
E D A And the politicians throwing stones
E D A ESinging ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down
C#m A ECommissars and pinstripe bosses roll the dice.
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Anyway they fall guess who gets to pay the price?
E A E Bm A G A Money green or proletarian grey, selling guns instead of food today
E D ASo the kids they dance and shake their bones
E D AAnd the politicians throwing stones
E D A ESinging ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes Ashes all fall down.
Bm A E AHeartless powers try to tell us what to think
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If the spirit's sleeping then the flesh is ink
Em7 A Em7 History's page will be neatly carved in stone
Bm AThe future's here, we are it, we are on our own. A D A JAM
C#m A EIf the game is lost, then we're all the same.
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No one left to place or take the blame
E A E We will leave this place an empty stone
F#m Bm AOr a shining ball of blue we can call our home
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So the kids they dance and shake their bones
E D A And the politicians throwing stones.
E D A ESinging ashes ashes all fall down. Ashes ashes all fall down
Shipping powders back and forth.
Singing black goes south and white comes north
And the whole world full of petty wars.
Singing I got mine and you got yours
While the latest fashions set the pace.
Lose your step fall out of grace
The radical he rant and rage.
Singing someone got to turn the page
And the rich man in his summer home.
Singing just leave well enough alone.
But his pants are down, his covers blown.
And the politicians throwing stones
So the kids they dance and shake their bones
Cause it's all too clear we're on our own
Singing ashes ashes all fall down, Ashes ashes all fall down
Bm A E APicture a bright blue ball just spinning spinning free.
Bm G AIt's dizzying, the possibilities. Ashes ashes all fall down ....
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