Chords for Kae Tempest - People's Faces (Live on KEXP)

_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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_ [C] It's coming to pause
_ My country's coming apart
[G] _ The whole thing's [C] becoming such a bumbling farce
_ Was that a pivotal [G] historical moment?
We just went stumbling [C] pause
_ Well, here we [G] are
Dancing in the rumbling dark.
So come a little [C] closer.
Give me something real that I can grasp
[G] Give me your beautiful
crumbling heart Another [Em] disaster
Catharsis another half discarded mirage another mask slips
I [G] face off with the [C] physical my head is ringing from the love of the stars _
There [G] is too much pretense
here and too much depends on the fragile wages and the
extortionate rents [Em] here
We're working every dread day that is given us
Feeling like the [G] person we should be it really [C] isn't us that we're gonna buckle
Underneath our struggle like any minute now our troubles [G] are going to finish us [C] and then we smile
_ That's all our friends.
_ _ _ _ [C] It's hard
We got our heads down and our [G] hackles up our backs against the wall.
I can [G] feel you
[C] Aching none of this was written in stone.
There is nothing we're forbidden to know and [G] I can feel things
[Em] Changing even when I'm weak and I'm breaking I stand weeping at the train station
Cuz I can [G] see your [A] faces _ _ _ _
[C] There's so much peace to be found in people's
[Em] Faces.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] I saw it roaring.
I felt it clawing at my clothes like a grieving [G] friend
It said there are no [C] new beginnings until everybody sees that the old ways need to [G] end
But it's [C] so hard to accept that we are all one and the same flesh
given the rampant divisions [G] between oppressor
[C] complicit and oppressed
But we are though
_ [G] more empathy
less [Em] greed and more respect
_ _ All I've got to say is already been [G] said I [C] mean you heard it from yourself
When you were lying in your bed and you couldn't [G] sleep and you were thinking couldn't we be doing things?
differently
[C] I'm listening to every little whisper in the distance singing hymns and I can I [G] can I can feel things
Changing [C] its heart.
We've got our heads down and our hackles up our backs [Em] against the wall, man
I [G] can feel your hearts [C] racing
None of this was written in stone the currents fast, but the river moves slow [G] and I can feel things
Changing [Em] even when I'm weak and I'm breaking I stand weeping at the train
Station cuz I can see your faces
[A] _ _ [C] _ _
_ So much peace to be found in people's
[Em] faces _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _
It's not enough
To imagine we'll be happy when we've got enough stuff
[G] All this stuff [C] is blocking us.
I'm neat with no chaser.
I'm all spirit
But [G] I'm sinking.
I'm [Em] sinking _ I'm shrinking
_ _ Because my days are not days but [G] strange symptoms and yes, [C] this age is our age
But our age is rage sinking to base and yes
Children [G] are brave, but their mission is [C] vague is your life well-lived or is your life well displayed?
I [G] don't have the answers, _ [C] but I believe there are still things to say
_ _ Stare out to [G] my city on another difficult day [C] and I scream inwardly
When will this change I'm beginning [G] to fade but my sanity's [C] safe
Cuz I can see your faces
My sanity's safe [G] cuz I can see your faces
[C] It's hard.
We got our heads down and our hackles up our backs against the wall, man
[G] I can feel your heart [C] racing none of this was written in stone the cards fast
But the river moves slower [G] that can feel things changing
[Em] Even when I'm weak and I'm breaking I stand weeping at the train station
[G] Cuz I can see your [A] faces
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_ [Em] So much peace to be found
_ [E]
people's
faces, [Em] I _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [G] love
people's faces
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