Protest The Hero
Blindfolds Aside
Key: then
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 466444
- 022100
- x24442
- 244322
- x68876
- x46664
- x13321
- x46654
/ - 143xxx
- x587xx
- x02220
- 133211
Intro: -------- x6
Verse 1:
We woke up as men but
tonight we'll sleep as killers
As we break the cryptic
morning with a bullet
and a prayer The steel never seemed
more cold and agile than now
And life never seems less vital
and fragile With a heart
G#m--C#m--G#m--Ebm--
Chorus:
with a heart
that's beating louder
than my own I watch a
woman they call Kezia I watch a
woman that I know I watch my
hopes and my own
future blindfolded
/
To atone for a sin I didn't care
for, but a sin that paid my debts A
/
sin that fed my children and
burned my smiles and
Ebm Bb/D Ebm---- x4
ci--ga---rettes
Verse 2:
And no one ever said that hope
would be so beautiful And no
one ever said I'd have to
pull the trigger on her
Guitar Solo: Ebm-- x4 B,
F#--Ebm--B--G#m--A--C#--F#--E--F--
Ebm-- x4
Verse 3:
Five soldiers forever sedated
with the "No one's responsible" psychological drama
of our social justice dribble
Her tiny steps tell
lies about the choice I have to make Resurrect a
static lifetime starve to death my own
mistakes Pull the screaming trigger and watch your
carcass bleed me dry Or drop the gun and try to
shake away the blindfold from your eyes? Drop the
gun, drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun
Outro: Ebm-- x6