The Burning City Smoking chords by Kevin Devine
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Intro 1
(G major)
Verse 1
Forty (G major) million refugees with no (C major) place
on this earth (D major) to call there home (G major)
One for every aimless graduate with nothing (C major)
else to show (D major) for it but loans (G major) (A minor)
(G major) And those (C major) of us who make (G major) our mark
use someone (D major) else's blood (G major)
Our west (C major) ern stain won't wash (G major) away,
it won't (D major) vanish in the flood (G major)
It seeps deeper (A minor) through each (G major) hurricane
and tidal (C major) wave (D major) and war (E minor)
Oh woah (D major) oh (G major) oh
We want everything (B minor) we (E minor) see and once
it's gone (D major) we just want more
(G major)
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Verse 2
Atlas had those shoulders,
we've got Ambien (C major) and Jameson's (D major) and blow (G major)
To bind us in a bubble and keep the news
(C major) print nightmare dis (D major) tant and remote (G major) (A minor)
(G major) But when (C major) we wake in (G major) gulitines and
pitch (D major) our screaming fit (G major) s
When the (C major) govenor strikes up (G major) the
band and gag (D major) s our parted lips (G major)
When the wor (A minor) st case shows up dressed (G major) and dazzling,
ready (C major) for (D major) the ball (E minor)
Oh woah oh oh (G major)
But that bubbles (B minor) bound to burst (E minor) and
what a tra (C major) gic way (D major) to fall
(G major)
Verse 3
The tabloids tell us hate
The rat who strikes (C major) those subways
closed (D major) and put's you out (G major)
Forget those fifty hour tunnel weeks
Inhal (C major) ing steel dust poison (D major)
through his mouth (G major)
Well if he don't (C major) deserve a pen (G major) sion
it makes his fam (D major) ily feel secure (G major)
If we're now (C major) so (G major) dissconected it's
our reflec (D major) tions we ignore (G major)
And if our constant (A minor) choice is skim
(G major) ming past the writ (C major) ing on (D major) the wall (E minor)
Oh woah (D major) oh oh (G major)
Then I'm sad (B minor) to say we're lost (E minor)
and (C major) I'm em (E minor) bar (C major) rassed for (D major) us all
(G major)
Verse 4
So most days I can't put to rest the burn (C major)
ing city smoking (D major) in my mind (G major)
And I play and pretend the principles are noth (C major)
in' more than actors (D major) runnin' lines (G major)
And I stumble (C major) through a movie (G major)
set where (D major) tourtered victims laugh (G major)
And embed (C major) ded journalists (G major) who juggle
knives (D major) and daggered glass (G major)
While they en (A minor) tertain a mob (G major) of
heads of state (C major) and (D major) CEO's (E minor)
Oh (D major) woah oh (G major) oh
I stagger pas (B minor) t anarchist extras (E minor)
through saloon (C major) doors painted (D major) gold
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
(G major) So I (C major) (D major) (G major)
(C major) (D major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
(C major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (A minor) (G major) (C major) (D major) (E minor)
(G major) (B minor) (E minor)
(C major) (D major) (G major) turn and I see Uncle Sam out (C major) side a (D major) wardroube ready for a shoot (G major)
So I walk right up and talk to him,
I tell (C major) him that I'm scared (D major) and I'm confused (G major)
And (E minor) while (C major) they test the cam (G major) eras
out and get (D major) the lighting right (G major)
While the ca (C major) tering fills cof (G major) fee cups
and carves (D major) up apple pie (G major)
And while (A minor) the stylists (G major) trim his beard
and straighten (C major) those (D major) clothes (E minor)
Oh woah oh (G major) oh
I ask (B minor) his empires (E minor) what made
him drive (C major) us straight (D major) to hell (G major)
And as my day (B minor) dream ends, he stand (E minor) s ashamed,
a shocked (C major) and shattered (D major) shell (G major)
But there's nev (A minor) er any an (G major) swer for
my starving (C major) tongue (D major) to tell (E minor)
Woah (D major) oh (G major) oh oh
'Cause the direct (B minor) or shouted ac (E minor) tion,
and from off (C major) set its just (D major) as well (G major)
Outro 1
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The Burning City Smoking
Kevin Devine
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