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[Verse]
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Come yonder old stranger the tooth and the dagger
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You stagger and then you are saved
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Grow fonder the manger in truth and in danger
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Of forgetting mistakes that you've made
C
Eyes like mine blinking and endlessly drinking
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Letting the warlords inside
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Fall in like mice into fires of ice
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In death we find places to hide

[Chorus]
D
All the old heroes are like
C                 G
Children to me now
D
As I come to burn your shame away
C                          G
Without knowing exactly how

[Verse]
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All the old heroes young babies without mothers
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Left to die on apocalyptic streets
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And where are these words from who spoke them before
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Coming down like flashes of heat
C
I'm never frightened for death I still welcome
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And death I have seen you before
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I gave you my keys, my windows, my creeds
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But soon I will give you much more

[Chorus]
D
All the old heroes are like
C                 G
Children to me now
D
As I come to burn your shame away
C                          G
Without knowing exactly how

[Verse]
G
Love is a fix a suicide wrist
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Blood with an unending flow
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To purify lands soak in the sands
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Of places that we'll never go
C
Jesus come calling we'll be here and falling
C
Praying for your hand to show
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Catch us in mercy drink us when thirsty
G
Each of us falling like snow

[Chorus]
D
All the old heroes are like
C                 G
Children to me now
D
As I come to burn your shame away
C                          G
Without knowing exactly how

[Verse]
G
Each one a cathedral the last junkie needle
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Stained glass from blood that is old
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And in that cathedral with the angels of nighttime
G
Paned in the window so cold
C
They see through your victims your painful musicians
C
Playing the saddest of songs
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Nobody singing just a ghost without dreaming
G
A voice that could right all the wrongs

[Chorus]
D
All the old heroes are like
C                 G
Children to me now
D
As I come to burn your shame away
C                          G
Without knowing exactly how

[Verse]
G
Goodbye sweet diamond the sky in the north wind
G
Is falling on lepers and snakes
G
Hello young mercy both blessed and thirsty
G
For solutions to so many mistakes
C
Without your lover your tired wonder
The south rain threatens to pour
G
On skulls like crashing in sunlight basking
G
Ignoring the strongest of calls
G
You cannot save them without their consent
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Your voice of mercy to them I have sent
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You spoke through me you a good man
G
Grew up to listen and give me your hand
C
Your voice of mercy so strong and so true
C
It comes out in cascades without residue
C
Of darkness or lies or doubt or untrue/untruth
C
It's pure like the wind the rain and the youth

[Chorus]
D
All the old heroes are like
C                 G
Children to me now
D
As I come to burn your shame away
C                          G
Without knowing exactly how