What We Have Known Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 The C♯tadpole buoyant aG♯ms basalt

The seashorse horsing in the salt

The owlet in his greenery

The narwhal in his cup of sea

 They C♯all believe

 They all F♯believe

Cm F♯

 But Cmcollusion bleeds through F♯back allies

From parapets that end in feet

When one is weak we discretely meet

We throw the bones into the street

As they progress

We retreat

G♯And all the A♯mbooks our fathers F♯wrote

Are in the middle of the road

Little by little we implode

History brittle, brown and broke

We can't remember what was spoke

So we stare in wonder at the smoke

What it begets is born alone

We know not now what we have known

 Ladies bBreathe dG♯eep against yoF♯ur whale C♯bones

When your children come back made of stone

 And the C♯terror seething G♯mseas away

Is like the wheezing of the bay

In miniature agonies

That travel westward on the breeze

 And brinC♯g us all to our F♯knees

Cm F♯

And the dappled horse the sorrowed mare

With eyes that do not see but stare

Beneath boots as black as malachite

He drives a nag into the night

Into the night

And all the baby boys we've born

With eyes averted from the storm

Sent off to die in perfect form

We know not now what we have known

Satellite photos and rhetoric

See how the euphemisms stick

And when they come back broke and burned

Those who return have not returned

Ladies breathe deep against your whale bones

When your children come back made of stone