Not Even a Wounded World

Even a wounded world can’t stop the sunrise
Or hold back the morning & it’s sweet embrace
Even a wounded world can’t peel back the laughter
Turning the corner & touching your face
Even a wounded world in all it’s sorrow
Can’t keep tomorrow from saving your place

(up 3) G D D7 DG / C G Am7 D :// B7 Em C G / C G GC D / 

No - it wouldn’t have the nerve
No matter what you heard
Not even a wounded world 

G D Em CEm /   / G D G -

Even a wounded world wouldn’t give up now
Doesn’t even know how it’s up for the fight
Even a wounded world melts just like ice cream
Waking up from a bad dream & holding you tight
Even a wounded world though it tries to refuse it
It can’t stop the music from playing inside

(bridge) The past is the grave where our garden grows
Our unheard prayers, our stifled prose
Yet for the words we cannot say
They are answered anyway

Eb - / Bb - / Cm - / D - 

Even a wounded world knows it’s not over
Whispers come closer don’t yet give up
Even a wounded world, even as you go farther
Knows it gets harder but come push and shove
Even a wounded world isn’t Buddha incarnate
And it can’t stop the heartache but it can’t break this love

(final cho) No - it wouldn’t have the nerve
No matter what you heard
You busy hummingbird
Not even a wounded world 

G D Em CEm (3x) G D G -

- Tom Prasado-Rao
(c) 2021. All rights reserved. Written Thanksgiving 2021.