NATIVES (CHRISTY MOORE)
(starting in C)
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For all of our languages we can't communicate
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For all of our native tongues we're all natives here
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Sons of their fathers' dream the same dream
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The sound of forbidden words becomes a scream
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Voices in anger, victims of history
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Plundered and set aside, grown fat on swallowed pride.
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With promises of paradise and gifts of beads and knives
D# Fm
Missionaries and pioneers are soldiers in disguise
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Saviours and conquerors they make us wait
D# Fm
The fishers of men they wave their truth like bait
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With the touch of a stranger's hand innocence turns to shame
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The spirit that dwelt within now sleeps out in the rain.
G# D# G#
For all of our languages we can't communicate
D# Fm
For all of our native tongues we're all natives here
Cm Fm G#
The scars of the past are slow to disappear
D# Fm
The cries of the dead are always in our ears
C# D#
Only the very safe can talk about wrong or right
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Of those who are forced to choose some will choose to fight
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For all of our languages we can't communicate
- 1. Chord Gitar Christy Moore - Natives Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar E)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Christy Moore - Natives Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar E)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan