Capo - 1st Fret
F#m - X-10-12-12-11-10
A
40 million refugees
D E A
with no place on this earth to call their home
A
one for every aimless graduate
D E A
with nothing else to show for it but loans
D A
And those of us who make a mark
E A
use someone else's blood
D A
Our western stain won't wash away
E A
won't vanish in the flood
Bm A
It goes deeper through each hurricane
D E Bm A
and tidal wave and war
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We want everything we see
Bm E A
and once it's gone we just want more
A
Atlas had those shoulders
D E A
We've got Ambien and Jamesons and blow
A
to bind us in a bubble
D E A
keep the newsprint nightmare distant and remote
D A
But when we wake in guillotines
E A
And pitch our screaming fits
D A
When the governors strikes up the band
E A
And gags our parted lips
Bm A
When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling,
D E Bm A
Ready for the ball
C#m F#m
Boy, that bubbles bound to burst,
Bm E A
And what a tragic way to fall
A
The tabloids tell us hate the rat that
D E A
Strikes those subways closed and puts you out
A D
Forgot those 50 hour tunnel weeks inhaling
E A
Steel dust poison through his mouth
D A
Well if he don’t deserve a pension that
E A
Makes his family feel secure
D A
If we're now so disconnected
E A
it's our reflections we ignore
Bm
And if our constant choices
A D E Bm A
skim and pass the writing on the wall
C#m F#m
Then, I'm sad to say we're lost
Bm E A
and I'm embarrassed for us all
Just play that same pattern over until the end of the song...