Banks chords by Lincoln

(D minor) (C major) Mile marker 27 says we’re on the way (E minor) to heaven and i smile (A minor) at the passenger seat. (C major) forty miles (F major) from chicago; there is snow on the windshield and you’re downtown dragging your feet. (F minor) now (C major) i’mcircling the block around uni (B major) on central station (C major) and there (A minor) are bullets flying into (D minor) the car. (B flat major) (E flat major) it’s the same (F major) as it’s always been. (A flat major) 200 miles (D minor) from chicago: there is blood on the windshield and i’m reeling (G major) as you gather your things. i said i don’t (F major) know what to do anymore as if i knew what to do before. (E minor) i can fuck up almost any (G major) thing. (A flat major) (C major) i don’t think that i would ex (E minor) actly call it love, but it’s dripping (F major) down my consciousness as you’re slipping (A flat major) down my lungs. i want to (C major) build you a protest out of stick (B major) s and rocks i find in the backyard (A minor) behind the (B flat major) house you (E flat major) grew up in. “in (C major) (F major) loving memory of (B flat major) all (D minor) our (C major) (D minor) nonconformity.” i want to sing (C major) you a signal that reaches (G major) only (B major) the ears (B minor) of (D minor) young disenfranchised straight (B flat major) white boys because that (F major) would feel normal and (A flat major) none of this (D minor) (C major) does. (E minor) (F major) (A flat major) save (C major) it for a rainy day and may (E minor) be then you’ll see. (F major) i am like the earth,

old man, (A flat major) there’s no way around me. (F major) (C major) but even in my dream (G major) s i still don’t (F major) know the difference between (C major) what it is i want (G major) and (F major) what it is i need.. i wanna see you be (C major) brave. (G major) i wanna see you sur (F major) viving. i wanna see (C major) both of us prospering (G major) and thriv (F major) ing separately. i (C major) want the catharsis of (G major) knowing something (D minor) bad’s about to hap (F major) pen, but (C major) also knowing (G major) that i can (D minor) ’t do anything about (B minor) it, be (B major) cause (G major) your new (C major) house just don’t shine (E minor) quite like the one (B flat major) you grew (C major) up in (F major) used to. i (C major) wanna come and vis (E minor) it. i (B flat major) wanna see this through, (F major) but (C major) i never will (G major) because you’re just (D minor) not what i need (F major) and i am (C major) just not what you (G major) want though you’re in (D minor) everyone i meet (F major) and (C major) we’ll say fuck the bank (G major) s but we’ll still (A minor) use (F major) them every day. and when we fight (C major) amongst ourselves, (G major) (A minor) the bank (F major) s will say “okay, have you been spending (C major) all your capital (G major) on causes (B flat major) you deem just? (F major) you keep (C major) doing what you can (G major) and we’ll keep (B flat major) doing what we (F major) must.” so despite (C major) what you have learned (G major) and songs for which (D minor) you’d take a bul (F major) let, you (G major) (C major) won’t find objective truth (G major) in a fi (D minor) nal rhyming (F major) (C major) couplet.