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

Eb
Eb

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Eb
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Eb
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Fm
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Fm
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Verse 1
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Oh,
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Fm
Fm

Ab
Ab

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

I was at peace, I really was,
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Fm

Ab
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no one I was at war with
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Edim
Edim

C
C

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Ddim
Ddim

The only common good was that we understood
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Edim
Edim

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Fm

that laws unjust were only good for breaking
Gb
Gb

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Eb

That difference legalized instead
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of sameness left nobody free
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But that was the day before I married my conscience to
Interlude 1
the state
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Eb
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Ab
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Adim
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Db
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Eb
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Fm
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Verse 2
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My taxes paid these road we laid
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to places of my choosing
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There were no eyes up in the skies
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Fm

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looking down into my bed
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Eb

Edim
Edim

C
C

Eaug
Eaug

There was no government
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Ddim
Ddim

D
D

without our consent
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Ddim

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And keys were made for
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Fm
Fm

anyone who just claimed it
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Eb
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Gdim

And glass was all of every wall that
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framed it from sea to shining sea
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But that was the day before I married my conscience to the state
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Fm

Eb
Eb

Interlude 2
Ab
Ab

Adim
Adim

Db
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Eb
Eb

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Fm
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Eb
Eb

Ab
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Adim
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Eb
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Fm
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Verse 3
Fm
Fm

Bb
Bb

Right and wrong were written on my heart and
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Fm

not just in the laws that condemned me
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Fm
Fm

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Bb

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

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