Songbook

Babel

By Mumford and Sons

Key of D

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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'Cause I know that time has numbered my days
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And I'll go along with everything you say
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But I'll ride home laughing Look at me now
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Through the walls of my town
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they come crumbling down

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And my ears hear the call of my unborn sons
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And I know that choices colour all I've done
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But I'll explain it all to the watchman's son
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I ain't never lived a year better spent in Love

[Chorus]
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'Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice
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And I'll believe in grace and choice
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And I know perhaps my heart is fast
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But I'll be born without a mask

[Interlude]
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[Verse]
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Like the city that nurtured my greed and my Pride
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I stretch my arms into the sky
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I cry Babel, Babel look at me now
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Through the walls of my town
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The come crumbling down

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You ask where will we stand
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in the winds that will have
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as all we see will slip into the cloud
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So come down from your mountain and stand where we been
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You know our breath is weak and our body thin

[Bridge]
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Press my nose up to the glass
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around your heart
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I should've known I was weaker from the start
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You'll build your walls and I will play my bloody part
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To tear, tear them down
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Well I'm gonna tear, tear them down

[Chorus]
            Bm      A         D       G
'Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice
    Bm      A       D         G      A
And I'll believe in grace and choice
      Bm      A       D        G
And I know perhaps my heart is fast
    Bm      A        D     G     A
But I'll be born without a mask

[Outro]
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