The New Age Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Yeah, the light is long
and it's [C]past [G]time, but we got [D]on
Yeah, we'll stroll away
like [C]old time photos [G]of the [D]boulevard
You [A]held apart the roots of mighty trees
When all around you kneeled and laid
[G]The earth had come undon[D]e
You [A]touched a leper empire in their sleep
Just to try and build [G]another
lonely fire in the [D]sun
A fire in [A]the sun
[D]We're beyond [C]the [G]new age now
[D]Beyond the[C] new[G] age now
[D]We're beyond the[C] new[G] age now[D]
Yeah, the light is long
and it's [C]time [G]to be getting [D]on
Well, don't look at me,
just [C]set your [Em]eyes [G]star -billed to [D]the dawn
We [A]storm the Aztec beach
with child slaves and M134s and
[G]214s and Browning [D]guns
When [A]you feed lions and leopards
off your tongue,
you've got to get them
while they're [G]young
To recognize your [D]blood,
to recognize your [A]love
[D]We're beyond [C]the [G]new age now
[D]We're beyond the[C] new[G] age now
[D]We're beyond the[C] new[G] age now[D]
Yeah, they're hauling off our king[C]s
to cliffs in Mer[G]cedes se[D]dans
And something vulgar sallied
forth across [C]your lips
as you [G]read the New De[D]mands
Well, [A]I, too, once was violently divine
With bloodstained, candy -appled lips,
[G]I delivered my lin[D]e
And [A]many bastards' brains
jumped up the wall
By my dandied forty [G]-five
They were the high vogue of the [D]times
The high vogue of the [A]times[D][C]
[G][D][C][G][D][C][G][D][C][G]
[D]Yeah, the light is long
[C]and the song is closing
and it's [G]time to be getting [D]home
It's dark inside the now
[C]and eve[Em]r har[G]der to go on[D]
The [A]August heat of palimpsest
Its phallic clouds discharge upon the [G]sky
A great and streaming [D]mist
The [A]sun in bloody rags and heaving breast
A long black dusk is spent like [G]tears
Across a cotton [D]dress,
a pale blue cotton [A]dress
[D]We're beyond [C]the [G]new age [D]now,
beyond [C]the [G]new age [D]now,
we're beyond [C]the [G]new age [D]now,
beyond
[C]Oh, the [G]blue age now