JONAS & EZEKIAL
As recorded by the Indigo Girls
(From the 1992 Album RITES OF PASSAGE)



Capo 2nd fret



[Intro]



[Verse 1]

I left my ange

r in a river r

unning Highway

 5

New Hampshire,

 Vermont, bord

ered by

College farms,

 hubcaps, fall

ing rocks

Voices in the 

woods and the 

mountaintops


[Verse 2]

I used to sear

ch for reserva

tions and nati

ve lands

Before I reali

zed everywhere

 I stand

There have bee

n tribal feet 

running wild a

s fire

Some past life

 sister of my 

desire


[Chorus]
             
Jonas and Ezek

         
iel hear me no

w
             
Steady now and

  
 don't come ou

t
              
I'm not ready 

              
for the dead t

  
o show its fac

e
             
Whose turn is 

         
it anyway?
         
Anyway




[Verse 3]
         
Now when I was

 young my peop

le taught me w

ell

Give back what

 you take or y

ou'll go to he

ll

It's not the d

evil's land, y

ou know it's n

ot that kind

Every devil I 

meet becomes a

 friend of min

e

Every devil I 

meet is an ang

el in disguise


[Chorus]
             
Jonas and Ezek

         
iel hear me no

w
             
Steady now and

  
 don't come ou

t
              
I'm not ready 

              
for the dead t

  
o show its fac

e
             
Whose angel ar

            
e you anyway?


[Post-Chorus]
      
Ha, ha, ha, ha
           
Ha, ha, ha, ha

  
, ha


[Guitar Solo]
         


[Bridge]
           
White, chain, 

      
rope, fear

(Hush my darli

ng)
            
Be still my de

 
ar


[Verse 4]

A bullet in th

e head, now he

's dead

A friend of a 

friend, someon

e said

He was an acti

vist with a ve

ry short life

I think there'

s a lesson her

e—he died with

out a fight


[Verse 5]

In the war ove

r land where t

he world began

Prophecies say

 it's where th

e world will e

nd

But there's a 

tremor growing

 in our own ba

ckyard

Fear in our he

ads, fear in o

ur hearts

Prophets in th

e graveyard


[Chorus]
             
Jonas and Ezek

         
iel hear me no

w
             
Steady now and

  
 don't come ou

t
              
I'm not ready 

              
for the dead t

  
o show its fac

e
             
Whose turn is 

         
it anyway?
              
Jonas, Ezekiel

 
 hear me now
             
Steady now, I 

          
feel your ghos

t about
              
I'm not ready 

              
for the dead t

  
o show its fac

e
             
Whose angel ar

            
e you anyway?


[Outro]
              
I said there's

 
 prophets in t

he graveyard

(Now I walk in

 beauty)

Prophets in th

e graveyard

(Beauty is bef

ore me)

Prophets in th

e graveyard

(Beauty is beh

ind me)

(Above and bel

ow me)