Pity The Dead
Jody Beaulac
jbeaulac@powersoft.com

  E  D D  G G  A A
E E  D D  G G  A A  B

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There's a boy in chrimson rags with a grimace and a spoon

      E             D            A              B
And a little sullen girl face-up staring at the moon

            E         D               G        C
And there's no one around to hear the lonesome cry

          D
Then they pass away alone into the night


E    B C  D        E
Why do we pity the dead?

        E           B C             D              A
Are you churned by emotion from the voices in your head

E               C                 G            D
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why

   E   G  D
Oh why do we pity the dead?

E E  D D  G G  A A
E E  D D  A A  B B

            E           D          G           A
Well you've seen the disease, suffering, and decay

        E              D            A        B
And you whisper to yourself blissfully "It's okay"

        E                D     G   C
And you still refuse the possibility

         D
That the dead are better off than we


E    B C  D        E
Why do we pity the dead?

        E           B C             D              A
Are you churned by emotion from the voices in your head

E               C                 G            D
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why

   E   G  D           C  D            E
Oh why do we pity the dead?  Pity the dead


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Tell me what you see, tell me what you know

G                           D
Is there anyone who lives a painless life?

   C         D       E
If there is, show me so

    E     E       E      E(high)   E     E       E      D
The destitude and famished,      demonic and the banished

E        E       E       E(high)   E           E       E      D
Dejected and the ostracized,   the brainwashed and the paralyzed

    E             C                G               D
The conquered and objectified, the few who see the other side

C       D        E
Tell me what you see

       G      D           C D E
It's a mortal wretched cacophony