Roots To Branches

Intro: F# 
 
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Verse 1 
 
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Words get written. Words get twisted. 
Old meanings move in the drift of time 
A 
Lift the flickering torches. 
See gentle shadows change 
B 
the features of the faces 
cut in unmoving stone 
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Bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one‘s listening. 
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Roots down in the wet clay, branches glistening. 
 
Riff 
 
Verse 2: 
True disciples 
carrying that message 
to colour just a little 
with their personal touch. 
Home-spun fancy weavers 
and naked half-believers 
Crusades and creeds 
descend like fiery flakes of snow. 
 
Bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one‘s listening 
Roots down in the wet clay, branches glistening 
 
F# 
Roots to Branches. 
Roots to Branches. 
Roots to Branches. 
 
Solo around riff in key of B 
 
Verse 3: 
In wet and windy priest-holes. 
Grand in vast cathedrals 
High on lofty minarets 
or in the temples of doom 
I hope the old man‘s got his face on. 
He‘d better be some quick change artist. 
Suffer little children 
to make their minds up soon. 
 
Bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one‘s listening. 
Roots down in the wet clay, branches glistening. 
 
F# 
Roots to Branches. 
Roots to Branches. 
Roots to Branches. 
 
Switch on F# B 
 
F# 
Roots to Branches. 
Roots to Branches. 
Roots to Branches. 
 
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