Reckoning Day Chords

 
Verse 1

Bm 4                                A    

The lions in the street bend their heads 

                  G6  F#m7

For the reckoning day

          Bm 4                 

'Cause the interstate's giving up

    A                      G6   F#m7

Her dead for the reckoning day



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A6                             Bm 4 

Would you come alive everybody would you come alive everyone

G6                        F#m7               Bm

Get up out of bed for the sound of the song unsung



Verse 2

Bm 4                       A

Bury all your guns in the sand 

                         G6     F#m7

'Cause the temperatures changed

        Bm 4                   A

And the blood shot eye of the sun

                         G6   F#m7

Stains the bones of the slain



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Verse 3

    Bm 4                   A                     G6    F#m7

The hour's gonna take you apart on the reckoning day

        Bm 4                   A                      G6    F#m7

If the property lines of your heart are drawn in the clay



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Verse 4

     Bm 4                   A                     G6   F#m7

The tidewater's taxing the shores of the washing away

    Bm 4                      A

The flood stands high at the doors 

                      G6   F#m7

Of the houses you've made



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Chorus 1

D                Bm A         Bm9

    Lift up your head oh you gate 

             Em7

Lift up your eyes all you who wait

D                Bm A          Bm9

    Daughter and son ashes and dust

         Em7

Come untied from the weight of the age



Interlude

Bm7  A  Em7  Bm7  A  Em7  



[Chorus 1]



Chorus 2

D                D C#        Bm9

    Lift up your head oh you gate 

             G

Lift up your eyes all you who wait

D                D C#          Bm9

    Daughter and son ashes and dust

         G                       Bm7

Come untied from the weight of the age