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Black Tears Tab

by Powderfinger


BLACK TEARS BY POWDERFINGER


   

                       
Fragile little thing go lightly on the wing
         
Don't be put off your game
     
If troubled wind should blow you off your way
   
Natural love and trust
       
Have downed their tools and struck
       
The nation's heart it rusts is no suprise
          
and seems so appropriate today


                       
  Black tears on a red rock
                            
  Fall right through and they dry up

                                /  
How could it fail to grab your attention
                    
Black tears on a red rock

                           
  These trees bear a strange fruit
                                              
  Harvesting lies and poisoned blossoms of the truth

                                                  /  
  There's blood on all our hands and blood on our boots
                        
And black tears on a red rock

   
An island watch house bed
                                                
A black man's lying dead
      
An island watch house bed
                                                 
A black man's lying dead