Trauma chords by Ezra Furman

SimplifiedD · C · Em · G · Bb …

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
What
C 
makes a girl start a fire in the hall
Em 
Leave a lipstick scrawl
G 
D 
On the bathroom mirror?
C 
She won't settle for a pile
of scrap metal
Em 
While you work the gas pedal
G 
D 
on another man's steer
C 
She takes her time as authorities arrive
Em 
Going out for a smoke
G 
D 
in the empty back lot
C 
She sees the world she imagined as a girl
Em 
As a lottery ticket for a
G 
D 
E 
phoney jackpot
Em 
E 
Years roll on  and we still have not

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Verse 2

dealt with our trauma

Years roll on we still have not looked at our sin

Interlude 1

Verse 3
D 
What makes a man take
C 
a hammer in his hand
Em 
Shutter every last window
G 
D 
of a company store
C 
At 3 am with the fury's back again
Em 
Now it's hammer against
G 
D 
man: a personal war
C 
The mind snaps and eco
nomies collapse
Em 
When the one who works hardest
G 
D 
gets the smallest reward
C 
The big scam is nobody gives a damn
Em 
That the penthouse suite depends
G 
D 
on the bottom three floors

Verse 4
Bm 
G 
And I know how hard
D 
Bm 
you've been working
G 
We all know somebody
D 
Bm 
who's been killed
G 
D 
(?) like ivory tower and the
Bm 
power we wield
G 
D 
E 
(?) empires (?)
Em 
Years roll on and they still have not