G5 On the very day I die C5 The very last of my desires G5 Is that you take my broken body C5 And commit it to the fire G5 And then when the fire is finished C5 Scrape the ashes in a tin G5 C5 Take them down to Londons drinking reservoirs F5 And throw them in G5 C5 And then specks infinitesimal of my mortal remains G5 C5 Will slide down 7 million throats and into 7 million veins G5 C5 And I will creep through their capillaries to the marrow of their bones G5 C5 F5 And they will wake to bright new mornings and then wordlessly theyll know G5 D5 That I remain C5 F5 I am remembered G5 D5 I remain C5 F5 I am remembered G5 So these 7 million innocents C5 They will have me in their blood G5 And when they die theyll burn their bodies C5 Or be buried in the mud G5 C5 And I will spread through streams and rivers like a virus through a host G5 C5 From the hamlets to the cities from the rivers to the coast G5 C5 And from there into the channel across the great Atlantic Ocean G5 And ever onwards to the new world C5 Through the waters gentle motions G5 C5 Until parts of me are part of every land mass every sea G5 C5 F5 In the rain, up on your crops and in the very air you breath G5 D5 I remain C5 F5 I am remembered G5 D5 I remain C5 F5 I am remembered G5 I remain D5 C5 F5 And all the things I love will be washed away in the rain G5 D5 C5 F5 G5 I remain D5 * Eb5 D5 * Im not convinced of the existence of these things that dont exist Eb5 Yeah by Jewish boys with big ideas and scratches on their wrist D5 * By a loving or a vengeful God Or one who condescends Eb5 Wholl wash his hands down in the mire among the misery of men F5 Or by ever turning circles hanging timeless in the sky G5 Like a dream catcher distracting from the fact youre gonna die D5 * But I place one foot before the other Confident because Eb5 I know that everything we are right now is everything that was D5 That Watt Tyler, Woody, Guthrie, Dostoevsky and Davy Jones Eb5 Are all dissolved into the ether and have crept into my bones F5 And all the cells in all the lines upon the backs of both my hands D5 Were once carved into the details of two feet upon the sand G5 D5 We remain C5 F5 We are remembered G5 D5 We remain C5 F5 We are remembered G5 We remain D5 And all the things we love C5 F5 Will be washed away in the rain G5 D5 C5 F5 We remain