Gone again (video)

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Hey now, man's own kin, we commend into the wind,

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grateful arms, grateful limbs, grateful soul, he's gone again.

+ C - F - C (2x)

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1. I have a winter's tale how vagrant hearts relent prevail,

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sow their seed into the wind, seize the sky and they're gone again.

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Fame is fleeting, God is nigh, we raise our arms to him on night,

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we shoot our flint into the sun,

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we bless our spoils and we're gone, we're gone.

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Hey now, man's own kin, we commend into the wind,

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Grateful arms grateful limbs, grateful heart he's gone again.

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Here a man, man's own kin,

he turned his back and his own people shot him.

And he fell on his knees before the burning plane,

and he beheld fields of gold his land his sun.

And he arose his blood aflame,

the clouds pressed with hand prints stained.

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3. One last breath, the sky is high, the hungry earth, the empty vein,

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the ashes rain, death's own bed, man's own kin into the wind.

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One last breath hole in life, love knot tied braid undone,

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child born the hollow horn, warrior cried, a warrior died.

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One last breath, lick of flame, spirit moaned, spirit shed,

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the heavens fed man's own kin, grips the sky and he's gone again.

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Hey, now, man's own kin, we lay down into the wind,

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grateful arms, grateful limbs, grateful heart, he's gone again.

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Hey, now, man's own kin, he ascends into the wind,

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grateful heart, grateful limbs, grateful man, he's gone again.

(Patti Smith)