Broken Knife

words & music (c)1992
by Nancy Louise Freeman


9/8 Karsilama
Intro: ||: G D em bm am am7 D :||

G                        D           C       D   G
Maybe hate is right and love is the cause
                D        C        D
Tell it to the paranoid walls
G                                    D         em
Maybe it's the wind kicking up from South Adrilankha
am7       D       A          D
Like she does.

G                          D          C       D   G
Funny all the truth your shoes never find
                   D       C        D
Scrub across the Dragon's hide
G                         D        em
Trying to convince that  Morganti mirror
am7    D
In her eyes.



CHORUS:
     C                     D         G      D
The days the Paths of the Dead cough up
     F        C        D               G        D
Between the shoulder blades and the klava cup
        C                                    D     em     A
Leave you with a soul like the blade of a broken knife
     C                                   D     G  D em bm am am7 D
Hold onto your soul like the edge of a broken life


Sorry to the dirt, you happen to be,
Just like a bone in the teeth
What they gonna do when the  Cycle fails to crumble
At their feet?

Herth'll eat the sun and spit out the stars
So it isn't simple at all
Maybe took the quick-killing aching bright resurrection
She was




CHORUS

G D | em bm | am am7 | 
D                           G          D | em bm | am am7 | D
No no she doesn't wanna   talk about it.

5/8 
C
No time to blink at
G
Kelly think fast
C              F
Teckla don't fly
C
Phoenix on the hunt now
F
Jhereg oughta jump out
Bb                  A ##  9/8 G D | em bm | am am7 | D
Break open the scab


Lady Fate is tight and lunges the toss
Yeah you've got the pair by the balls
Lately winning's been kicking down in 
Adrilankha's jaws...

CHORUS

No no she doesn't wanna   talk about it.