The Heron (FAWM 2026-9)

Em C G D Am Boy, do you understand? / The ashes are still hot after the fire Em C Caught up in a world shaped by other's hands / Em D C Em Weighted down with grief, no respite to acquire Am C G D Em Wondering how to live your life / When all around is stark confusion Em C Em D Em The very rocks are filled with strife / That borders on the edges of delusion G D C D How do you live? / When the path is dark and there is no light to see Em D C D What can you give / When your soul is crying for a spark of sanity? G D C Em Can you make your way / Through the trials that surround you on each side? D Em C Em Am Em How will you live? / The meaning of the choice is what you must decide Em C G D Am When the war came to your home / And nothing that you did could make it end Em C Em D C Em The shaking of the earth alone / The shrieking of the storm to make you bend Am C G D Em Did you think that you could ever know / When giants go to war with no regards Em C Em D Em For peoples, nations, all the world below / Would shatter into pieces, into shards G D C D How do you live? / When the path is dark and there is no light to see Em D C D What can you give / When your soul is crying for a spark of sanity? G D C Em Can you make your way / Through the trials that surround you on each side? D Em C Em Am Em How will you live? / The meaning of the choice is what you must decide Em C G D Am Boy, to be a bird is to be free / Except that even birds must be subject to their king Em C Em D C Em Watch the pelicans above the sea / Listen to the parakeets who have a song to sing Am C G D Em Why do some embrace the fire / Knowing that destruction is the legacy it leaves? Em C Em D Em No joy is found, nor life's desire / In the heart as it forever grieves G D C D How do you live? / When the path is dark and there is no light to see Em D C D What can you give / When your soul is crying for a spark of sanity? G D C Em Can you make your way / Through the trials that surround you on each side? D Em C Em Am Em How will you live? / The meaning of the choice is what you must decide Em C G D Am The world is ending every day / And on the next a new world can be born Em C Em D C Em As each of us must also pass away ? Yet grasp the saving cord and do not mourn Am C G D Em Choose to be yourself and not a tool / Choose the path that only you can see Em C Leave behind the greedy, grasping fools / Em D Em Knowing how to live is the way you can be free G D C D How do you live? / When the path is dark and there is no light to see Em D C D What can you give / When your soul is crying for a spark of sanity? G D C Em Can you make your way / Through the trials that surround you on each side? D Em C Em Am Em How will you live? / The meaning of the choice is what you must decide