Shake The Dust

Intro: G 


 
  G                                      Em C 
I walked through the cemetery twice today     . 
G 
Got the feeling that the dead had something to 
     Em C 
say     . 
       G 
The earth makes roommates 
          Em                  C 
Out of carbon based primates 
        G                                           Em C 
The grave was trying to communicate     . 
 

 
               G 
Shake the dust, shake the dust 
           C 
When the world you used to trust 
       D# 
Is in pieces all around you 
           C 
It's not what you thought it was 
           G 
Shake the dust, shake the dust 
           C 
When your empire starts to rust 
        D# 
Only love outlasts the living 
           C 
Til the dust makes you one of us.  


Instrumental: 
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G                            Em C 
Germany shot my grandpa down     . 
            G                                Em C 
But he survived to love that same German town. 
            G 
The former soldiers that he met 
         Em       C 
With his American accent. 
        G                             Em      C 
He only talked to me about the common ground, he said 
 

 
               G 
Shake the dust, shake the dust 
          C 
When the world you used to trust 
       D# 
Is in pieces all around you 
           C 
It's not what you thought it was 
               G 
Shake the dust, shake the dust 
          C 
When your empire starts to rust 
      D# 
Only love outlasts the living 
          C                                 G C G C 
Til the dust makes you one of us    


Instrumental: 
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          G 
Someday when I'm on my own deathbed 
      G 
I'll speak the words my own grandfather said 
 

 
               G 
Shake the dust, shake the dust 
          C 
When the world you used to trust 
       D# 
Is in pieces all around you 
           C 
It's not what you thought it was 
           G 
Shake the dust, shake the dust 
          C 
When your empire starts to rust 
        D# 
Only love outlasts the living 
                        C 
Til the dust and rust will claim the rest of us 
 

Outro: 
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