Intro: (played fast, repeat a couple times)
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then play this once, and the first intro again:
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It is an early Monday morning.
AEmGC
The sun is becoming bright on the land.
AEmGF
No one is watching as he comes a walking.
CGDA
Two bulky suitcases hang from his hands.
AEmGF
He heads towards the tower that stands in the campus.
AEmGC
He goes through the door, he starts up the stairs.
AEmGF
The sound of his footsteps, the sound of his breathing,
CGDA
The sound of the silence but no one was there.
D - Am - D - AmDAm
I didn't really know him.
DAm
He was kind of strange.
DAm
Always sort of sat there.
DAmC - Em - A
He never seemed to change.
AEmGF
He reached the catwalk. He put done his burden.
AEmGC
The four sided clock began to chime.
AEmGF
Seven AM, the day is beginning.
CGDA
So much to do and so little time.
AEmGF
He looks at the city where no one had known him.
AEmGC
He looks at the sky where no one looks down.
AEmGF
He looks at his life and what it has shown him.
CGDA
He looks for his shadow it cannot be found.
D - Am - D - AmDAm
He was such a moody child,
DAm
very hard to touch.
DAm
Even as a baby
DAm
he never smiled too much.
CF#m
No no. No no.
F#m
You bug me, she said.
F#m
Your ugly, she said.
F#m
Please hug me, I said.
G
But she just sat there
Bm
With the same flat stare
GEm
That she saves for me alone
Bm
When I'm home.
G
When I'm home.
A
Take me home.
AEmGF
He laid out the rifles, he loaded the shotgun,
AEmGC
He stacked up the cartridges along the wall.
AEmFG
He knew he would need them for his conversation.
CGDA
If it went as it he planned, then he might use them all.
AEmGF
He said Listen you people I've got a question
AEmGC
You won't pay attention but I'll ask anyhow.
AEmGF
I found a way that will get me an answer.
CGD
Been waiting to ask you 'till now.
A
Right now!
A
Am I?
AEmGF
I am a lover whose never been kissed.
A
Am I?
AEmGF
I am a fighter whose not made a fist.
A
Am I?
AEmGF
If I'm alive then there's so much I've missed.
CGA
How do I know I exist?
A
Are you listening to me?
A
Are you listening to me?
A
Am I?
Am - Am/G - Am - Am/GAEmGF
The first words he spoke took the town by surprise.
AEmGF
One got Mrs. Gibbons above her right eye.
AEmGF
It blew her through the window wedged her against the door.
CGDA
Reality poured from her face, staining the floor.
D - Am - D - AmDAm
He was kind of creepy,
DAm
Sort of a dunce.
DAm
I met him at the corner bar.
DAm
I only dated the poor boy once,
CEmA
That's all. Just once, that was all.
A
Bill Whedon was questioned as stepped from his car.
A
Tom Scott ran across the street but he never got that far.
A
The police were there in minutes, they set up baricades.
CG
He spoke right on over them in a half-mile circle.
DCEmAm
In a dumb struck city his pointed questions were sprayed.
Am - Am/G - Am - Am/GAm
He knocked over Danny Tyson as he ran towards the noise.
Am
Just about then the answers started comming. Sweet, sweet joy.
Am
Thudding in the clock face, whining off the walls,
Am
Reaching up to where he sat there, answering calls.
Am
Thirty-seven people got his message so far.
Am
Yes, he was reaching them right were they are.
A
They set up an assault team. They asked for volunteers.
A
They had to go and get him, that much was clear.
A
And the word spread about him on the radios and TV's.
C G D (optional)
In appropriately sober tone they asked "Who can it be?"
D - Am - D - AmDAm
He was a very dull boy,
DAm
very taciturn.
DAm
Not much of a joiner,
DAm
he did not want to learn.
c F#m
No no.No no.
F#m
They're coming to get me, they don't want to let me
F#mG
Stay in the bright light too long.
F#m
It's getting on noon now, it's goin to be soon now.
F#mG
But oh, what a wonderful sound!
G
Mama, won't you nurse me?
EmCA7
Rain me down the sweet milk of your kindness.
G
Mama, it's getting worse for me.
EmCA7
Won't you please make me warm and mindless?
G
Mama, yes you have cursed me.
EmCA7
I never will forgive you for your blindness.
Bm
I hate you!
A
The wires are all humming for me.
A
And I can hear them coming for me.
A
Soon they'll be here, but there's nothing to fear.
A
Not any more though they've blasted the door.
Am - Am/G - Am - Am/GAm
As the copter dropped the gas he shouted "Who cares?" .
Am
They could hear him laughing as they started up the stairs.
Am
As they stormed out on the catwalk, blinking at the sun,
EmGEm
With their final fusillade his answer had come.
Em - Em/F# - Em/G - Em/AbA
Am I?
AEm
There is no way that you can hide me.
A
Am I?
AEm
Though you have put your fire inside me.
A
Am I?
AEmAC#m
You've given me my answer can't you see?
Bm
I was!
G
I am!
EmC
and now I Will Be
A
I WILL BE!!!