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The Burning City Smoking chords by 
Kevin Devine
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Intro 1
G
Verse 1
G
C
Forty million refugees with no place
D
G
on this earth to call there home
C
One for every aimless graduate with nothing
D
G
Am
else to show for it but loans
G
C
G
And those of us who make our mark
D
G
use someone else's blood
C
G
Our western stain won't wash away,
D
G
it won't vanish in the flood
Am
G
It seeps deeper through each hurricane
C
D
Em
and tidal wave and war
D
G
Oh woah oh oh
Bm
Em
We want everything we see and once
D
it's gone we just want more
G
Verse 2
Atlas had those shoulders,
C
D
G
we've got Ambien and Jameson's and blow
To bind us in a bubble and keep the news
C
D
G
Am
print nightmare distant and remote
G
C
G
But when we wake in gulitines and
D
G
pitch our screaming fits
C
G
When the govenor strikes up the
D
G
band and gags our parted lips
Am
G
When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling,
C
D
Em
ready for the ball
G
Oh woah oh oh
Bm
Em
But that bubbles bound to burst and
C
D
what a tragic way to fall
G
Verse 3
The tabloids tell us hate
C
The rat who strikes those subways
D
G
closed and put's you out
Forget those fifty hour tunnel weeks
C
D
Inhaling steel dust poison
G
through his mouth
C
G
Well if he don't deserve a pension
D
G
it makes his family feel secure
C
G
If we're now so dissconected it's
D
G
our reflections we ignore
Am
And if our constant choice is skim
G
C
D
Em
ming past the writing on the wall
D
G
Oh woah oh oh
Bm
Em
Then I'm sad to say we're lost
C
Em
C
D
and I'm embar rassed for us all
G
Verse 4
C
So most days I can't put to rest the burn
D
G
ing city smoking in my mind
C
And I play and pretend the principles are noth
D
G
in' more than actors runnin' lines
C
G
And I stumble through a movie
D
G
set where tourtered victims laugh
C
G
And embedded journalists who juggle
D
G
knives and daggered glass
Am
G
While they entertain a mob of
C
D
Em
heads of state and CEO's
D
G
Oh woah oh oh
Bm
Em
I stagger pas t anarchist extras
C
D
through saloon doors painted gold
Interlude 1
G
Verse 5
G
C
D
G
So I
C
D
G
C
G
D
G
C
G
D
G
Am
G
C
D
Em
G
Bm
Em
C
D
G
C
D
G
turn and I see Uncle Sam outside a wardroube ready for a shoot
So I walk right up and talk to him,
C
D
G
I tell him that I'm scared and I'm confused
Em
C
G
And while they test the cameras
D
G
out and get the lighting right
C
G
While the catering fills coffee cups
D
G
and carves up apple pie
Am
G
And while the stylists trim his beard
C
D
Em
and straighten those clothes
G
Oh woah oh oh
Bm
Em
I ask his empires what made
C
D
G
him drive us straight to hell
Bm
Em
And as my daydream ends, he stands ashamed,
C
D
G
a shocked and shattered shell
Am
G
But there's nev er any answer for
C
D
Em
my starving tongue to tell
D
G
Woah oh oh oh
Bm
Em
'Cause the director shouted action,
C
D
G
and from offset its just as well
Outro 1
G
G
G
D
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