Chords for Ani DiFranco - Fuel | Live in New York | Moshcam

We are not alone.
_ _ I want to dedicate this to all you who've been _ rabble-rousing
down there [N] _ _
on the bridges and the [C] byways
and _ _ giving [Ab] _ _ _ _ [G] _
us [Ab] fuel for change. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] I actually wrote this [Ab] a long time ago.
_ [G] _ _ _ I don't know what occasion.
I was living in New York, and I had the occasion
to be down in the financial [C] district
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ [G] _ and was [Ab] _ _ [G] _
duly creeped out.
[Ab] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ I actually remember one of the first times I came to New York,
I _ _ think I was about 15 or 16, _ and I caught a van ride from Buffalo.
I knew some people there. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And so me and my friend decided to go busking,
_ _ _ _ and we made the erroneous _ call that we should
go where people have money. _ _ _ _
_ _ So that's where we went.
We went way downtown. _ _
_ _ And yeah, we got a lot [Ab] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ of _ _ _ responses, _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ [G] very few of them _ _
_ [C] financial.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _
A lot of, fuck, get a job and shit, you [G] know,
those [C] _ dudes _ [Ab] on their lunch hour.
[G] And then we took our $2.50 [C] that we made all [G] day,
_ and we were walking back up to where we were staying.
And we passed by this deli, you know, _ [G] some Middle Eastern guys.
And the grate was like halfway down.
But we were like, _ what can we get for $2 [C].50?
_ _ _ [Ab] _ And they were [G] all in there sitting around a table,
smoking [C]
cigars and playing cards.
_ [Ab] Place was [G] closed.
_ _ _ _ Dudes were like, _ come on in.
_ _ And then they saw we both had guitars, me and my friend Michael.
And they said, play us a song. _ _ _
_ _ _ And they passed the hat around.
The [G] dudes playing cards passed the hat [Ab] around.
And they [G] _ _ _ made [Ab] us our dinner money.
[G] _ _ _
_ _ And that's when I learned [Ab] _ that people that have the least
[G] give the most.
_ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ They were digging a new foundation [Ab] in Manhattan.
And [G] they discovered the site.
Cemetery [Ab] there.
[G] _ [C] Made their souls [Ab] rest easy now that lynching is frowned [G] upon.
And we've moved on to the electric [C] chair.
And I wonder, who's going [G] to be president?
[Ab] Maybe Barack [G] Obama.
Who's going to have the big blockbuster box office this summer?
Maybe we could put up a wall [Ab] between the houses
and the highway.
[G] And then you could go your way.
And I could go my [C] way.
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[G] Said [C] all the [G] radios agree with [Ab] all the TVs.
[G] And the magazines agree with [Ab] all the _
[G] radios.
[C] And I keep hearing [Ab] that same damn [G] song everywhere I go. _ _
_ Maybe I should put a bucket over my head
and a marshmallow in each ear.
And stumble around for another [Ab] dum-dum week,
for another [G] hum-drum hit [Abm] song to [G] appear.
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_ _ [F] _ No band.
No band [E] here.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ Little [C] interlude.
_ _ People used to make records [Ab] as in a record of an event.
[G] The event of people playing music in a room.
Now everything is cross [Ab]-marketing.
It's sunglasses and [G] shoes or guns and booty you choose.
We got it rehashed.
We [Ab] got it half-assed.
[G] We're digging up all the raves.
And we're spinning on the [C] past.
And we can choose between the colors
[Abm] of the lipstick on the _ [G] horse.
_ _ [Ab] _ _
[G] Yeah, we can choose between the colors [Ab] of the lipstick
on [G] the horse.
_ [Ab] _ _
[G] Because we know the difference between the font of 20% More
_ and the font of [C] teriyaki.
_ [Ab] You tell me, how does it make [G] you feel? _ _ _ _
_ [C] You tell me.
_ [Ab] _
You tell [G] me. _ _ _ _
What's [Am] real?
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[E] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
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_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
And they say that [G] alcoholics [Ab] are always alcoholics,
[G] even when they dry out [Ab] my lips [G] for [C] years.
Even when they're stranded [Ab] on a small desert island
[G] with no place in 2 [Ab],000 miles to [G] buy beer.
[C] And I wonder, [G] is he different?
[Ab] Is he different?
Has he [G] changed?
What he's [Ab] about? _
[G] _ [C] Or is he [G] just a liar [Ab] with nothing to lie [G] about? _ _ _ _
_ [C] And we're headed for the same [Ab] break.
Whoa. _
_ [G] Is there anything I can do [Ab] about anything [G] at all?
[C] It's time to go back to that corner [Ab] in Manhattan
_ [G] and dig deeper, dig deeper this time,
_ _ down beneath the impossible pain of our history. _ _ _
_ Yeah, down _ [Ab] beneath the bedrock of the [G] mystery, _ _ _
_ _ [C] beneath the [G] sewage system and the path
to train, beneath the cobblestones and the water
main, [C] beneath the traffic of [Ab] friendships and street deals,
[G] beneath the screeching of kamikaze [Ab] [G] cab wheels,
[C] beneath everything I can think [Ab] of to think about.
[G] Beneath that all, beneath [Ab] all, [G] get out.
[C] Beneath the good and [G] the [Ab] kind and the stupid and the cruel,
[G] there's a fire just [Ab] _ [C] waiting for you.
_ [G] _ [Ab] _
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[Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
Yes, [C] waiting for you. _ _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Thank you. _ _ _