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What It Means easy guitar chords by
Drive-by Truckers
Drive-by Truckers

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Intro 1
D
Gsus2

D
Gsus2
D
Gsus2

D
Gsus2
He was
Verse 1
D


running down the street

When they shot him in his tracks
Gsus2

About the only thing agreed upon
G
Gsus2
G

Is he ain't coming back
Gsus2
G
D

There won't be any trial

So the air it won't be cleared
G
D

There's just two sides calling names
Gsus2

Out of anger out of fear
D
Gsus2
D

If you say it wasn't racial

When they shot him in his tracks
Gsus2
D

Well I guess that means

that you ain't black
Gsus2
G
Gsus2

It means that you ain't black
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D

I mean Barack Obama won

And you can choose where to eat
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D

But you don't see too many white kids
Gsus2

Lying bleeding on the street
Interlude 1
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G
Gsus2
D
Gsus2

D

Verse 2
D

In some town in Missouri

But it could be anywhere
Gsus2

It could be right here
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on Ruth Street
Gsus2
D

In fact it's happened here

And it happened where

you're sitting

Wherever that might be
Gsus2
D

And it happened last weekend
Gsus2
G

And it will hap pen again next week
D

And when they turned him over

They were surprised there was no gun
Gsus2
D

I mean he must have done something
Gsus2
G

Or else why would he have run
D

And they'll spin it for the anchors

On the television screen
Gsus2

So we can shrug and let it happen
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Gsus2

Without asking what it means
D
What it
Verse 3
Gsus2
D
Gsus2

means?
D

What it means?
Interlude 2
D
Gsus2
D
Gsus2
D

Verse 4
D

Then I guess there was protesting

And some looting in some stores
Gsus2
D

And someone was reminded that
Gsus2

They ain't called colored folks no more
D

I mean we try to be politically

Correct when we call names

But what's the point
Gsus2

of post-racial
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Gsus2
D

When When old prejudice remains?

And that guy who killed that kid

Down in Florida standing ground
Gsus2
D

Is free to beat up on his girlfriend
Gsus2

And wave his brand new gun around
D

While some kid is dead and buried

And laying in the ground
Gsus2

With a pocket full of skittles
D
Gsus2
Verse 5

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D
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D
Gsus2

What it means?
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D
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A

Asus4
Bm
Gsus2

A
D
Asus4
Bm
D
Gsus2
G
Gsus2
D
G

Gsus2

What it means?
Interlude 3
D
Gsus2

Asus4
D

Gsus2

D
Astrophysics
Verse 6

at our fingertips

And we're standing at the summit
Gsus2

And some man with a joystick

Lands a rocket on a comet
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We're living in an age

Where limitations are forgotten
Gsus2

The outer edges move and dazzle us

But the core is something rotten
D

And we're standing on the precipice

Of prejudice and fear
Gsus2

We trust science just as long

As it tells us what we want to hear
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We want our truths all fair and balanced

As long as our notions lie within it
Gsus2

There's no sunlight in our ass'

And our heads are stuck up in it
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And our heroes may be rapists

Who watch us while we dream
Gsus2
D

But don't look to me for answers
Gsus2

Cuz I don't know what it means
D
What it
Verse 7
Gsus2
D
Gsus2

means?
D

What it means?
Outro 1
Gsus2
D
Gsus2
D

Gsus2
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Gsus2
G
D

Gsus2
D
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D
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D
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G
D

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  • Asus4

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