On The Wire chords by Troy Cassar-Daley
Intro 1
G
Em
C
Am
G
Em
C
Am
G
Em
C
Am
G
Em
C
D
Came
Verse 1
G
Em
back from the city
C
Said, "'Cause where you been?"
Am
G
Em
Says brother I've been living on the wire
D
G
Em
Lived down in that gutter
C
Am
where the fittest survive
G
Em
C
Plowed through them fields of fire
D
G
Em
Had a needle in a vein
C
that profited the same
Am
G
Had a friend with no name
Em
C
who was a liar
D
G
Em
Saw the white walls of freedom,
C
never found the black door
Am
G
Em
Saw the devil sing with angels
C
D
in a quiet cistern
G
Em
C
Am
We'll take you to the land we know
G
Em
C
Give you that peace of the evening
D
G
Em
Give you that moon
C
Am
with the wind on your face
G
Em
C
The rains and the change of each season
D
G
Saw people who were trapped
Em
C
Am
under the whip of fat cats
G
Em
C
Saw people there devoid of their dreaming
D
G
But deep down inside
Em
C
there's so much to hide,
Am
G
Em
You can see it in their eyes,
C
there's no meaning
D
G
Em
So take me my sisters
C
and welcome me home
Am
G
Em
C
So I never again walk alone
D
G
Em
My spirit demands
C
that we die in this land
Am
G
Em
And I know now my spir
C
it's come home
D
Sister
G
Em
We'll take you home to
C
Am
the land we know
G
Em
C
Give you that peace of the evening
D
G
Em
Give you that love
G
C
Am
with the wind on your face
G
Em
G
C
The rains and the change of each season
D
G
He says, brother,
Em
what you see
C
in this land of progress
Am
He says,
G
Em
C
I never felt them four winds a -blowin'
D
G
Em
Live with people in chains,
C
they're wounded and lame
Am
G
Em
C
Heard me sighs just fall without knowin'
D
G
Em
And then the seven seas rose,
C
Am
and the desert lands froze
G
Each individual there was
Em
C
trapped in a prison
D
G
Em
And the spirit cried out
G
C
Am
to know what it's all about, brother
G
Em
The basses had no rhyme
C
D
and no reason,
G
Em
G
We'll take you home to
C
Am
the land we know
G
Em
C
D
Give you that peace of being
G
Em
Give you that youth
C
Am
with the wind on your face
G
Em
C
The rains and the change of each season
Am
G
Em
I came back from the city
C
Said, "'Cause where
Am
you been?"
Em
Em
Brother, I've been living on the wire
On The Wire
Troy Cassar-Daley
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