Light Pollution chords by Bright Eyes

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Verse 1
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John A. Hobson was a good man
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Em 
He used to loan me books
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and mic stands
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He even got me a subscription
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D 
To the Socialist Review
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D 
Listening to records in his basement
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Bm 
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Old folk songs about the government
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"It's love of money,
D 
not the market"
A 
He said, "these fuckers push
on you"

Verse 2
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"And freedom yells, it don't cry
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Em 
Whatever sells  will decide
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But there's no hell when you die
Bm 
So don't look so worried"
A 

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Verse 3

He got a night life, lost his day job

Pushing papers,

swinging pendulums

Anything to serve a function

Or to occupy some time

Verse 4
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You gotta earn this living somehow
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Em 
You're good as dead
A 
Bm 
D 
without a bank account
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D 
But it's funny how alive he felt down
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In that unemployment line
D 
With all that trash

Verse 5

at his feet

The pools of piss in the street

All of that filthy empathy

For the way we're feeling

Interlude 1

Verse 6
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The billboards shade
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The flags they wave
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Bm 
The anthem was playing loud
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The baseball game was letting out
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A 

Verse 7
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And all at once
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He saw the dust
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Bm 
And heard every tiny sound
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Got in his truck and turned
around
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Verse 8
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Drove out through the
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D 
crowd and the cops
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D 
Drove out past that center mall
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Drove out past that sickening sprawl
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D 
Out past that fenced in gold

Verse 9
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And maybe he lost control
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Fucking with the radio
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Bm 
But I bet the stars seemed so close
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At the end
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At the end
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At the end