Key: Bb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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40 million refugees
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F
with no place on this earth
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to call their home
One for every aimless graduate
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F
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with nothing else to show for it belongs
Cm
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Eb
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An d those of us who make our mark
F
Bb
use someone else's blood
Eb
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Our western stain won't wash away,
F
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it won't vanish in the flood
Cm
Bb
It sits deeper through each hurricane
Eb
F
Gm
and tidal wave war
F
Bb
Oh oh oh
Dm
Gm
We want everything we see
F
Bb
and once it's gone we just want more
Atlas had those shoulders,
Eb
we've got Am bien and
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Jamesons and Blow
To bind us in a bubble
Eb
and keep the newsprint nightmare
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distant and remote
Cm
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Eb
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But when we waken guillotines
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and pitch our screaming fits
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Bb
When the governor strikes up the band
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Bb
and gags our parted lips
Cm
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When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling,
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F
Gm
ready for the ball
Bb
Oh, oh, oh
Dm
Gm
Boy, that bubble's bound to burst
Eb
F
Bb
and what a tragic way to fall
The tabloids tell us, hate the rat
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F
Who strikes those subways closed
Bb
and puts you out
Forget those 50 hour tunnel weeks
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F
Inhaling steel dust poison
Bb
through his mouth
Eb
Bb
Well if you don't deserve a pension
F
That makes family feel secure
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Eb
If we're now so disconnected
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F
It's our reflections we ignore
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Cm
And if our constant choice
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is skimming past
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F
Gm
The writing on the wall
F
Bb
Oh, oh, oh
Dm
Gm
Then I'm sad to say we're lost
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Gm
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F
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And I'm embarrassed for us all
So most days I can't put to rest
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F
Bb
The burning city smoking in my mind
And I play and pretend the principles
Eb
Are nothing more than act
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Bb
ors running lines
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Bb
And I stumble through a movie set
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Bb
Where torture victims laugh
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Bb
At embedded journalists
F
who juggle knives and
Bb
dagger glass
Cm
While they entertain a mob
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Eb
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Gm
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of heads of state and CEOs
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Gm
A staggered past anarchist extras
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through saloon doors painted gold
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F
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F
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Cm
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F
Gm
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Dm
Gm
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So I turn and I see Uncle Sam
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F
Bb
All tied up, wardrobe ready for a shoot
So I walk right up and talk to him
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F
I tell him that I'm scared
Bb
and I'm confused
Gm
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Bb
While they test the cameras out
F
and get the lighting right
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While catering fills coffee cups
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and carves up apple pie
Cm
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And while the stylists trim his beard
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F
Gm
and straighten those pals
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Dm
Gm
Oh -oh -oh, I ask his empires
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F
what made him drive us straight to hell
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Dm
And as my daydream ends,
Gm
he stands ashamed,
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F
a shocked and shattered shell
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Cm
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But there's nev er any answer
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F
Gm
from my starving tongue to tell
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Oh -o h -oh,
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Gm
cause the director's shouting action
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F
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But I'm sad it's just as well
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsBb Eb F Cm Gm...
Bb
Eb
F
Cm
Gm
Dm
Capo: 3
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