I Love the World — New Model Army
Chords and lyrics for I Love the World by New Model Army (key of Em).
Verse 1
Varition over last verse:
Intro
over an Em
Verse 1
[Em]The roll of distant thunder breaks, the afternoon of silence wakes
[Em]They hurry through from Petergate as if they know this dance
[Em]In fury blind, I drive at night across the moors, the open roads
[Em]Beneath the freezing starry skies, racing in some trance
[C]These cities are illusions of some [G#]triumph over Nature's laws
[Am]We've seen the iron carcass rust and [B]buildings topple into dust
[C]And as the waters rise, it seems we [G#]cling to all the rootless things
[Am]The Christian lies, technology, while [B]spirits scream and sing
Chorus
Oh God I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
Verse 2
[Em]Well I never said I was a clever man but I know enough to understand
[Em]That the endless leaps and forward plans will someday have to cease
[Em]You blind yourselves with comfort lies like lightning never strikes you
twice
[Em]And we laugh at your amazed surprise as the Ark begins to sink
[C]This temple that is built so well to [G#]separate us from ourselves
Is a [Am]power grown beyond control, a [B]will without a face
And [C]watching from outside I wish that [G#]I could wash my hands of this
But [Am]we are locked together here, this [B]bittersweet embrace
Chorus
Oh God I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the world, I [C]love the world
Instrumental
[Em][D#][C](single [B][A#]bass [G][F#m]notes [Em]over a Em ostinato)
[D#] [C] [B]
Verse 3
N.C.
And if one day the final fire explodes across the whitened sky
N.C.
I know you've said you'd rather die and make it over fast
[Em]With courage from your bravest friends, [C#m6/E]waiting outside for the end
With no [F#/E]bitterness but an innocence that [G/E]I can't seem to grasp
I [C]know somehow I will survive - this [G#]fury just to stay alive
So [Am]drunk with sickness, weak with pain, I can [B]walk the hills one last time
[C]Scarred and smiling, dying slow, I'll [G#]scream to no one left at all
I [Am]told you so, I told you so, I [B]told you so .
Chorus
[Em] [Am] [G] [C]
[Em] [Am] [G] [C]
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]love the [C]world
I [Em]love the world, I [Am]love the world
I [G]told you so[C]
[Em]
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