Lilac & Black chords by Ezra Furman

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Verse 1
G 
D 
C 
We all escaped from somewhere else
G 
To the cruel,
D 
C 
cruel city where the asphalt melts
Em 
Bm 
In the heat of our anger
Am 
which finds no release
D 
In the lab rat maze of ever-
C 
narrowing streets

Verse 2
G 
It's no surprise
D 
C 
G 
We've got blood in
D 
C 
our eyes
G 
D 
C 
We've been alone too long
G 
D 
We belong together with our
C 
weapons drawn

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Interlude 1

Verse 3
D 
Em 
Tonight, tonight I'm dreaming
of my queer girl gang
C 
D 
We who walk this deadly path
Em 
And the city that tries to kill
us each night
C 
D 
Will soon bow before our wrath,
ah
Em 
C 

Verse 4
D 
Em 
We've got death stares
to ward off enemies
C 
D 
Amulets to ward off fear
Em 
And I try to keep count,
try to guess the amount
C 
D 
Who'll make it through the coming year,
the coming year
Em 

Verse 5
Am 
So now we're calling out to stations
'cross the underground
G 
Gather all your savages and send them out
Am 
If  you get the signal,
come defend the crown
C 
G 
D 
That nobody knows you wear

Verse 6
D 
Em 
G 
We're out here on  the attack
C 
D 
We wear the lilac and black
Em 
G 
We might not make it back
C 
D 
We wear the lilac and black

Interlude 2
Em 
C 
D 
Em 
C 
D 
Em 
C 
D 
Em 
C 
D 

Verse 7
E 
The cis question if we really exist,
Em 
C 
D 
sometimes even we've got doubts
Em 
E 
But the feminine deferred like
Em 
a rubbed- out word
C 
Is still passed around from
D 
mouth to mouth
Hell, yeah
Em 
C 

Verse 8
D 
Em 
We might smile and laugh in a photograph
C 
But you know our pretty
D 
heads are haunted
Em 
We're the frozen girls
in a planned- out world
C 
D 
They never once asked us what we wanted,
no
Em 

Verse 9
Am 
So now we're in  the territory
we've been in before
G 
End the preparations as
begin the war
Am 
The streets of this city's
what we're asking for
C 
And we'll take 'em if
G 
they're not given
D 

Verse 10
Em 
G 
We're never coming back
C 
D 
We wear the lilac and black
Em 
G 
We're out here on  the attack
C 
D 
We wear the lilac and black

Verse 11
Em 
G 
No, we might not make it back
C 
D 
But we wear lilac and black
Em 
G 
We leave no trace you can track
C 
We wear the lilac and black
D 
Em 