The State chords by
Derek Webb
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Key: C major
Intro 1
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

Bb
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Eb
Eb

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Cm
Cm

Eb
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Ab
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Eb
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Bb
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Cm
Cm

Eb
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Ab
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Verse 1
Eb
Eb

Oh,
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Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

Ab
Ab

I was free to live and love and kill as I saw fit
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Eb

Bb
Bb

I was at peace, I really was,
Cm
Cm

Eb
Eb

F
F

no one I was at war with
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Bb

Bdim
Bdim

G
G

Ab
Ab

Adim
Adim

The only common good was that we understood
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Bdim
Bdim

Cm
Cm

that laws unjust were only good for breaking
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Bb
Bb

That difference legalized instead
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Ab
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of sameness left nobody free
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Eb

Bb
Bb

But that was the day before I married my conscience to
Interlude 1
the state
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Cm

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

Edim
Edim

Ab
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Ab
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Cm
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Eb
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Edim
Edim

Ab
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Verse 2
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Eb

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Bb

My taxes paid these road we laid
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Cm

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Bb

Ab
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to places of my choosing
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Eb

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Bb

There were no eyes up in the skies
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Cm

F
F

looking down into my bed
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Bb

Bdim
Bdim

G
G

Baug
Baug

There was no government
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Ab

Adim
Adim

A
A

without our consent
Adim
Adim

Bb
Bb

And keys were made for
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Ab
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Cm
Cm

anyone who just claimed it
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Db

Bb
Bb

Ddim
Ddim

And glass was all of every wall that
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Eb

Ab
Ab

framed it from sea to shining sea
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Eb

Bb
Bb

But that was the day before I married my conscience to the state
Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Interlude 2
Eb
Eb

Edim
Edim

Ab
Ab

Bb
Bb

Ab
Ab

Cm
Cm

Bb
Bb

Eb
Eb

Edim
Edim

Ab
Ab

Bb
Bb

Ab
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Cm
Cm

Verse 3
Cm
Cm

F
F

Right and wrong were written on my heart and
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Cm

not just in the laws that condemned me
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Ab

Cm
Cm

F
F

But now with Caesar sat is fied I can
Outro 1
even do the things that should offend me
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Ab

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