Intro: Am Am C Em7 Bm The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh Am C Em7 Bm The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas Am F G F# B And I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose E A E D Am Yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose Am C Em7 Bm I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come Am C Em Bm The cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone Am F G F# B But let me ask you one more time, o children of the dusk E A E D Am All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us? Am C Em7 Bm And where do all these highways go, now that we are free? Am C Em7 Bm Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me? Am F G F# B O lady with your legs so fine, o stranger at your wheel E A E D Am You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal Am C Em7 Bm The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask Am C Em7 Bm The nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass Am F G F# B And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite E A E D Am And one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night Am C Em7 Bm O come with me my little one, we will find that farm Am C Em7 Bm And grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm Am F G F# B And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am E A E D Am O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb Am C Em7 Bm With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl Am C Em7 Bm I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world Am F G F# B We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky E A E D Am And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye