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House Gone Up In Flames Tab

by The Nightwatchman


Tuned down 1/2 step 


It's in the grain of the wood
It's in the needle's rust

It's in the eagle's claw

It's in the eyes you trust
It's in the jackal's dreams
It's in the sleet and the hail

It's in the unmarked box

That came today in the mail
It's in the dead man's pocket
It's in the child's first sin

It's in the Constitution

Written in very small print
It's in Colin Powell's lies
It's in the shaman's trance

It's in the cellar waiting
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And it's in the best laid plans
             
We could cut and run

And take half the blame

Don't stop now

That's why we came

House gone up in flames


It's in the National Anthem
It's in the scurrying roach

It's in the closed partition

'Tween first class and coach
It's in the relentless fever
It's in the lonely room

It's in the hands of fate

And it's in the pharaoh's tomb
It's in the rich man's dreams
It's in the poor man's hands

It's in the body bags

Along the Rio Grande
It's in the evening shade
It's on the zealot's tongue

It's in the widow's tears
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And it's in the miner's lungs
             
We could cut and run

And take half the blame

Don't stop now

That's why we came

House gone up in flames


It's in the moon's dark spin
It's in the cloudless sky

It was in St. Peter's denial

That he'd thrice deny
It's in the distant thunder
It's in the whispered prayer

That they won't find us hidden here

Beneath the stairs
So consider yourself lucky
And watch what you say

I got what I wanted

You might get the same
It's in the bold print nailed
To the cathedral door

It's in the black cold pressure

On the ocean floor
             
We could cut and run
And take half the blame
Don't stop now
That's why we came

House gone up in flames