The court (2023)
G - D - Em
~ ~
Em
1. You put your hand up, you make your bid,
Em
you
got your pictures all laid out in the grid,
Em
look in the garden
in the surface ground,
Em
buried
everything that you never want found.
G D Em ~ ~
And the court will rise while
the pillars all fall.
Em
2. We got the healer and the birthday cake,
Em
we
got the real thing and we got the fake.
Em
You got the ladder, but where is the snake ?
Em
How my body begins to wake
!
G
D Em ~ ~
And the court will rise while
the pillars all fall.
Em
3. You got the money goin' up your nose,
Em
you got the data,
don't control where it goes.
Em
But you have left it getting down to the bone,
Em
you’ve all your
memories on your mobile phone.
G
D
Em
And the court will rise while
the pillars all fall. - - -
G Bm
- Bm F#
+ Out of this sentence the ball and the claw,
G Bm Bm F# Bm
and all
these pronouncements I can make up the voice of law.
G Bm Bm F#
Out in the market all our lives are on sale,
G Bm F# Bm
and
the balls are drifting further apart, recovery cannot fail. + F#
Em
4. Got the things you need and they’re all in
place,
Em
got the big shot
barrister to keep my case.
Em
Got my baby throwin’ up on a chocolate milk,
Em
the
black cat judge reaches for his silk.
G D Em
And the court will rise while
the pillars all fall.
Em
5. We lost the line between
the good and bad,
Em
we lost the line
between the sane and the mad.
Em
Used to draw the line across the writing pad,
Em
the line of
conscience that we never have had.
G
D Em
And the court will rise while
the pillars all fall. + Em - D - A (6x)
Em D - A G
+ So many are reaching
for it, so many reaching out for
it,
Em D
A
(you know that justice is blind). (2x)
Em D - A G
+ So many looking out for it, so many looking out for it,
Em D
A
(you know that justice is blind).
(orig. = capo 4th) (Peter
Gabriel)