Shine over Babylon

[Verse]
E
I walked the heat of seven hills
Bm
Endless talk of losing wills
F#m
Great highways in a constant melt
A  
Men and women and children

all have overbuilt
E
Buying bread and paying for none
Bm
Creatures of a waning sun
F#m
Teacher’s hands are overrun
A  
Clowns and gypsies

have all but gone


[Chorus]
A
You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon

You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon


[Verse]
E
Freedoms etched on Sacred pillars
Bm
Hollow stones of mindless filler
F#m
Can lead to madman oil drillers
A  
Won’t be long before

we all are killers
E  
Little boy lost

way up the mountains
Bm  
Cities drowning under

boiling fountains
F#m
I dreamed of chilly, sunlit days
A
I was trembling in a golden haze


[Chorus]
A
You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon

You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon


[Verse]
E
We celebrate the golden cow
Bm
Praise the bloated bank account
F#m  
If there’s

a god where is he now
A  
The precipice is

slipping further out
E
Sanskrit message from the mounts
Bm  
Leave your possession,

hope abounds
F#m  
There’s nothing

here for you to cry about
A  
We’re all just followers

from here on out
E  
I take the stage,

I walk the planks
Bm  
I sing these songs

with little thanks
F#m  
I wait for shouts

from crazy cranks
A  
I stand amidst the

brown shirt ranks
E
I found my way to Alexandria
Bm
Where gurus bubble up on gangea
F#m  
Scavengers, they

run up and hand ya
A  
All the junk that

should have damned ya


[Chorus]
A
You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon

You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon


[Interlude]
E Bm F#m A


[Bridge]
E
If everything in life was free
Bm
We'd float in your own reverie
F#m  
The things that

yo can't seem to see
A
Seal the gap between you and me


[Chorus]
A
You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon

You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon


[Chorus]
A
You make me wanna
Bm D A
Shine    over Babylon

You make me wanna
Bm D   A~
Shine    over Babylon