[Intro]
Am F C Am F C Am F C Am F G
[Verse]
C F
I got street cred, gun powder gray eyes and a stolen purse
C
Six pounds of state jewelry on my ankles and wrists
F
I've renewed the old family curse
G F
A spider web windshield, they'll never let my ass past the borderline
C G
I'm just looking for a place to spend the rest of my sins
F
Before the jig is up and I can go home
[Chorus]
C G F
And it's a hard bargain we drive
C G F
We ain't living, we're just trying to survive
C G
Knocked out, loaded and left out
F
Vanished in the air
C G C
And we're steady going nowhere
[Verse]
C F
Well she smiled and drew the blinds and then pulled back the covers
C F
Said it's nice being friends, now can we just be lovers
G F
Well it's hard being a pimp, can I cower neath the concrete sun
C G
You can get a lethal injection in the Sunshine State
F
Or an alley down on Hastings Street
[Chorus]
C G F
And it's a hard bargain we drive
C G F
We ain't living, we're just trying to survive
C G
Knocked out, loaded and left out
F
Vanished in the air
C G Am
And we're steady going nowhere
[Instrumental]
Am F C x 2
[Bridge]
Am F C
Were we anything more than gods and men
Am F C
A column of bone and baby that's it
Am F C G
A column of bone and one last hit
[Verse]
C F
Tone deaf, New Years Eve, a cup of kindness yet
C F
I have danced with death so often, I can teach you all the steps
G F
In somewhere stolen my fate plays out so differently
C G
Far from this no man's wasteland, free falling
F
On a Black Hawk wind
[Chorus]
C G F
And it's a hard bargain we drive
C G F
We ain't living, we're just trying to survive
C G
Knocked out, loaded and left out
F
Vanished in the air
C G Am
And we're steady going nowhere
C G Am F G C
And we're steady going nowhere