Four Winds

no capo Intro Gm D# A# Cm A# D# x4 Gm D# your class , your caste , your country , sect , your name or your tribe A# Cm there’s people always dying trying to keep them alive A# Cm his body’s decomposing in containers tonight D# in an abandoned building where ( the same chords ) a squatter’s made a mural of a mexican girl with fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl she’s standing in the ashes at the end of the world four winds blowing through her hair Cm F Cm F but when great satan’s gone , the whore of babylon D# A# D# A# she just can’t sustain the pressure where it’s placed Cm she caves Interlude : Gm D# A# Cm A# D# ( now the same chords ) the bible’s blind . the torah’s deaf . the qu’ran is mute . if you burned them all together youd get close to the truth still theyre pouring over sanskrit under ivy league moons while shadows lengthen in the sun cast on a school and meditation built to soften the times and hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds it’s knocking over fences , crossing property lines four winds cry until it comes it’s the sum of man slouching towards bethlehem a heart just can’t contain all of that empty space it breaks . it breaks . it breaks . well i went back by rented cadillac and company jet like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps all the way to cassadaga to commune with the dead they said , "you’d better look alive" and now its off to old dakota where a genocide sleeps in the black hills , the badlands , the calloused east i buried my ballast . i made my peace . her four winds leveling the pines but when great satan’s gone , the whore of babylon she just can’t remain with all that outer space Cm F Cm F Gm she breaks . she breaks . she caves . she caves .