B
F#
G#m
E


Intro: B (hold)


Verse:

B
By shadowing
        G#m
all the darkened fields
   F#
of forgotten words
    G#m           F#
and civilian lives

B
through violence
            G#m
through the changing guards
            F#
through the grinding away
                G#m      F#
and the furious marching


Chorus 1:

   B             E        F#
by gathering/the holy light
    B
and weathering
       E        F#
a cast away life
        G#m (hold)
and the rising fear


Verse 2:

    B
The hollowness
       G#m
of the flags and gods
         F#
that are raised in the air
                     G#m   F#
in the wake of their raging

     B
Your skinny arms
       G#m
hold a lantern up
       F#
on the brightest array
                      G#m     F#
of the stars in their moorings


Chorus 2:

    B
and summoning
         E     F#
the holy light
         B
on their citadels
      E        F#
the blackening sky
    G#m                         F#
the collapsing sun, the burning wall
                    G#m     F#
that approaches our eyes


Bridge:

G#m    F#


Chorus 3:

    B
you live again
       E          F#
in the shuddering light
         B
of these images
      E     F#
this valediction
        G#m                   F#
you are running from a rising tide
            B
you are castaways