The War Criminal Rises And Speaks

                   C                        Em
The heart wants to feel. The heart wants to hold
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The heart takes past Subway, past Stop and Shop, past Beal's, and calls it coming home
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The heart wants a trail away from alone
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So the heart turns a sale into a well-worn milestone

[Verse 2]
                     C                          Em
The heart wants soft furniture, fought-for fast food
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Defended end table that holds paperbacks and back U.S. News
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The mind turns an itch into a bruise
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And the hands start to twitch and theyre feeling ill-used

[Verse 3]
                  C                            Em
But you're almost back now, you can see by the signs
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From the bank you tell the temperature and then the time, and the billboard reads some headlines
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The head wants to turn, to avert both its eyes
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But the mind wants to learn of some truth that might be inside reported crimes

[Verse 4]
                    C                              Em
So they found a lieutenant who killed a village of kids
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After finishing off the wives, he wiped off his knife and that's what he did
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And they're not claiming that theres any excusing it
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That was thirty years back, and they just get paid for the facts the way they got them in

[Verse 5]
                   C                                       Em
Now hes rising and not denying. His hands are shaking, but hes not crying
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And hes saying how did I climb out of a life so boring into that moment?
       G                 C                               Em
Please stop ignoring the heart inside, oh you readers at home!
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While you gasp at my bloody crimes, please take the time to make your heart my home
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Where I'm forgiven by time, where I'm cushioned by hope
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Where I'm numbed by long drives, where I'm talked off or doped

[Verse 6]
                        C       Em
Does the heart want to atone? Oh, I believe that its so
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Because if I could climb back through time, I'd restore their lives and then give back my own
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Ten times now its size on a far distant road
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In a far distant time where every night I'm still crying, entirely alone

[Verse 7]
        F                 G                    Am
But the news today always fades away as you drive by
         F                   C             G
Until at dinnertime when you look into her eyes
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Lit by evening sun - that, as usual, comes from above that straight, unbroken line
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The horizon - its rising seems a gi-ven
          F       G
Just like your li-ving

[Verse 8]
                     C                       Em
Your hearts warm and kind. Your mind is your own
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So our blood-spattered criminal is inscrutable; dont worry, he wont
                    Dm                 G
Rise up behind your eyes and take wild control
                     Dm                     F   G
Say "hes not of this time, he fell out of a hole"