Capo 3rd fret E5 , C5 , G5 , A5 , G5 , A5 , C5 x4 Vers: E5 C5 Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe G5 A5 There's people always dying trying to keep them alive G5 A5 His body's decomposing in containers tonight C5 In an abandoned building where E5 C5 A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl G5 A5 With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl G5 A5 She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world C5 Four winds blowing through her hair Omk: A5 D5 A5 D5 But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon C5 G5 C5 G5 She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed A5 She caves E5 , C5 , G5 , A5 , G5 , A5 , C5 Vers: E5 C5 The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute G5 A5 If you burn them all together you'd get close to the truth G5 A5 Still they're pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons C5 While shadows lengthen in the sun E5 C5 Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times G5 A5 And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds G5 A5 It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines C5 Four winds, cry until it comes Omk: A5 D5 And it's the song of man A5 D5 Slouching towards Bethlehem C5 G5 C5 G5 A heart just can't contain all of that empty space A5 D5 It breaks, it breaks, (it breaks) E5 , C5 , E5 , C5 , E5 , C5 , D5 Vers: E5 C5 Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, a company jet G5 A5 Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps G5 A5 All the way to Cassadega to commune with the dead C5 They said, "You'd better look alive" E5 C5 And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps G5 A5 In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east G5 A5 I buried my ballast, I made my peace C5 With four winds, levelling the pines Omk: A5 D5 A5 D5 But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon C5 G5 C5 G5 She just can't remain with all that outer space A5 D5 A5 D5 She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves. E5