Hope Eyrie

[Verso 1]
 
Am                  G         Em 
Worlds grow old and suns grow cold 
    Am       G         C 
And death we never can doubt. 
C           G             Am       G 
Time's cold wind, wailing down the past, 
  Am       G        C        Em 
Reminds us that all flesh is grass 
    Am        G          Am 
And history's lamps blow out. 
 


[Refrão]
 
        C         G       E                  Am G 
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. 
C          G        Am      G     Am 
Time won't drive us down to dust again. 
 


[Verso 2]
 
Am                    G         Em 
Cycles turn while the far stars burn, 
    Am         G       C 
And people and planets age. 
C            G         Am      G 
Life's crown passes to younger lands, 
Am           G       C             Em 
Time brushes dust of hope from his hands 
    Am     G      Am 
And turns another page. 
 


[Refrão]
 
        C         G       E                  Am G 
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. 
C          G        Am      G     Am 
Time won't drive us down to dust again. 
 


[Verso 3]
 
    Am              G             Em 
But we who feel the weight of the wheel 
     Am           G        C 
When winter falls over our world 
    C          G          Am        G 
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes 
     Am     G           C      Em 
To a silver moon in the opened skies 
      Am     G      Am 
And a single flag unfurled. 
 


[Refrão]
 
        C         G       E                  Am G 
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. 
C          G        Am      G     Am 
Time won't drive us down to dust again. 
 


[Verso 4]
 
Am                G        Em 
We know well what Life can tell: 
       Am        G            C 
If you would not perish, then grow. 
      C       G       Am        G 
And today our fragile flesh and steel 
     Am       G          C      Em 
Have laid our hands on a vaster wheel 
     Am         G        Am 
With all of the stars to know 
 


[Refrão]
 
        C         G       E                  Am G 
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. 
C          G        Am      G     Am 
Time won't drive us down to dust again. 
 


[Verso 5]
 
     Am                   G         Em 
From all who tried out of history's tide, 
  Am           G         C 
Salute for the team that won. 
        C         G             Am         G 
And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach, 
    Am        G          C      Em 
The wave that carried us up the beach 
   Am            G       Am 
To reach for the shining sun. 
 


[Refrão]
 
        C         G       E                  Am G 
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when. 
C          G        Am      G     Am 
Time won't drive us down to dust again.