• Song:

    Four Winds

  • Artist:

    Bright Eyes

  • Album:

    Cassadaga (Internationa...

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
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