| Am | |
| this darkness would |
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| eclipse our will |
| Am | |
| a cold wind blows |
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| across these hills |
| Am | |
| a swinging gaze |
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| from a hangman's tree |
| Am | |
| a crow's nest view |
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| of what's left to see |
| Pre Chorus |
| G | |
| the light that's formed |
| Em | |
| of saints return the silence to the snow |
| F |
| G | |
| still beneath the craters waiting |
| Em | F | |
| for this time to grow |
| Chorus |
| G#/Eb | G/D | |
| so hold | on |
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| hold tig | ht |
| Em | F/C | |
| open daylight |
| G#/Eb | G/D | F/C | |
| we | will o | ver come |
| Intro |
| Verse |
| Am | F/C | |
| so put a | way your fear |
| Am | F/C | |
| the morni | ng star |
| Am | F/C | |
| will soon | appear |
| Am | F/C | |
| and bring | an end |
| Am | F/C | |
| to this d | ark night |
| Am | F/C | |
| and we mu | st run |
| Am | F/C | |
| if we're | to meet the light |
| Bridge |
| Em | |
| watered by the blood of martyrs |
| Am | |
| blessed and blind as sons and daughters |
| G | C | |
| sleep with one eye open |
| F | |
| and live with both eyes shut |
| Em | |
| so let's find th | e place where sight begins |
| Am | |
| and see the things that we saw when our |
| G | C | |
| eyes were bright and wet against th | e light |
| F |
| Chorus |
| G#/Eb | G/D | |
| so hold | on |
| F/C | |
| hold tig | ht |
| Em | F/C | |
| open daylight |
| G#/Eb | G/D | F/C | |
| we | will o | ver come |
| G#/Eb | G/D | F/C |
o------pen your eyes
| Em | F/C | |
| over the new sig | ht |
| G#/Eb | G/D | F/C | |
| fly th | e flags of dawn |
| Intro |
| End on F/C |