Mount Tam Words and music by Leslie Fish © 1986Am E Am G C G Am Here I sit on the head of Mount Tam F C G Might as well be in Viet Nam F E Am The battle is coming soon. Dm F Am C The stars are hid, but the sky is grey G Em Am E With the lights of the cities that ring the bay Am D E Am In the shape of a crescent moon. Chorus (after every verse): G Am E Am C G Am So if there be anything here Dm F Am C G That cometh not in the Name of the Powers of Light F Am C G Then in the Name of the Powers of Light Em Am Let it be gone. Cities live, the stones have soul As long as one pillar stands up whole And here are three million lives. Their spirit runs through the nerves of wire Through the concrete bones and the furnace fire And the body of stone survives. Warnings groan that the deep plate crack Will shake one burden from Earth's green back Tonight one of us goes down. So here we fight with our wizard's force To shift the fault on its other course And swallow the southern crown. We who feel the currents of power Have no rest in the darkening hour Of a war that we did not choose. But if some city must fall to the brine I swear that city shall not be mine I do not intend to lose. So aim the bolt and raise the shield The choice is cruel but we dare not yield When life is the prize of war. San Andreas we curse your name As we strike your fault with our silent flame And deflect and deflect once more.