Song Of Choice

Am
Early every year the seeds are growing
A                     D               A
Unseen, unheard, they lie beneath the ground
          Am
Would you know before the leaves are showing
          Dm             G           Am
That with weeds all your garden will abound.

                                  E7
If you close your eyes, stop your ears,
          Am                  E7
Hold your tongue, how can you know.
    Am
For seeds you cannot see may not be there
Dm               E7             Am
Seeds you cannot hear may never grow


Am         G                    Am
In January you've still got the choice
        C               D                  E7
You can cut the weeds before they start to bud
       Am                 C            Dm
If you leave them to grow high they'll silence your voice.
E7        Am            G             Am
And in December you may pay with your blood.


Chorus
   Am                         E7
So close your eyes, stop your ears,
           Am             E7
Close your mouth, take it slow.
    Am
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear,
    Dm            E7             Am
And later you can say you didn't know.

Am         G                    Am
Ev'ry day another vulture takes flight
        C               D                  E7
There's another danger born ev'ry morning
      Am                 C            Dm
In the darkness of your blindness the beast will
learn its bite
E7        Am            G             Am
How can you fight if you can't recognise a
warning?

Am         G                    Am
Today you may earn a living wage
        C               D                  E7
Tomorrow you may be on the dole
       Am                 C            Dm
Though there's millions going hungry, you needn't disengage
E7        Am            G             Am
For it's them not you, who've fallen in the hole.

Am         G                    Am
Today the soldiers took away one
        C               D                  E7
Tomorrow they may take away two
       Am                 C            Dm
While April they took away Greece
E7        Am            G             Am
But surely they will never take you?

Am         G                    Am
It's alright for you if you run with the pack
        C               D                  E7
It's alright if you agree with all they do
       Am                 C            Dm
If fascism is slowly climbing back
E7        Am            G             Am
It's not here yet, so what's it got to do with you?

Am         G                    Am
The weeds are all around us and they are growing
        C               D                  E7
It will soon be too late for the knife
       Am                 C            Dm
If you leave them on the wind that around the wind is blowing
E7        Am            G             Am
You may pay for your silence with your life.

  Am                         E7
So close your eyes, stop your ears,
           Am             E7
Close your mouth, and never dare.

 Am
And if it happens here they'll never come for you,
    Dm            E7             Am
Because they know you really didn't care.