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Been trying to tab this out for months, finally had an epiphany. If you have any corrections, feel free to edit over what I have.

       D                 A
if you prick us won't it sting?
       G                D
if you kick us won't it hurt?
                          G                                A
I am wrapped in scraps of linen and pieces of people's old shirts.
    D           G                       D                    G                       A
but way way underneath all these sticky bands, I hold all my dreams right here in my hands.

           Em            G          D                      G
I will rise from the tomb like an infant emerging from the womb.


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        D                G                   D
I spent several thousand years down here all alone.
          G                               A
no way to stand the lonely old ache in my bones.
G                   A      G                    D
say the spell three times, crank up the special effects,
                          G                             A
I'm gonna cast off all my bandages and see what happens next.

           Em           G        D              G
I will rise fully formed like an infant freshly born.
                      D     G              D
I've been trapped too long, underneath the ground.
              G                                         A
in the hollow darkness but ain't no grave gonna hold my body down.
D              G                                    D             G                        A
I will push my hand up through the earth and I will rise like the cry of an infant at it's birth

              D
ah ah ah ah ah
              G
ah ah ah ah ah
                        A
ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah   ah ah ah ah ah ah 

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