Chords for Bad Books - Myths Made Plain

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_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ [Em] deeper.
_ [A] _ _
_ _ [G] In 1997 [A] I became myself.
_ [D] 20 minutes later [G] I began to melt.
A cycle I get used
to [A] in the course of time.
[D] Shifting definitions [G] that comprise a life.
The people I become
[A] are people I don't [D] recognize. _ _ _ _
If you're wondering [A] who _ [G] arranged the mess, some exceptions [A] were
made.
A [G] grant I guess.
While we all at the [A] peak [D] of the [Bm] parade.
The underbelly [Em] went lethal.
[A] _ _
_ _ [G] In 2007 [A] tried to build a bridge.
[D] Between how I was [G] living and how I could live.
I tricked
myself in [A] thinking that I'd done enough.
[D] And once I got across [G] I didn't blow it up.
And yeah I closed some [A] lanes.
All it really takes is [D] one open [B] name to tear [D] apart _ [G] all your
work so finely wrought.
_ [Em] Delicate, _ _ [D] _ unachieved, [G] all your high philosophy.
_ _ [Em] Style points, [F#m] blind belief.
A [G] world in _ _ permittuity.
The old [Em] you mourn and those [F#m] that did.
The same [G] you fall,
all of us sold.
In _ 2017 we [A] did away with facts.
[D] I'm all appreciation [G] with the battle acts.
The gruesome ideology [A] of sin and shame.
[D] American identity [G] was laid to waste.
The black man exposed.
[A] Shredded strips amidst me.
[Bm] _ _ If [E] you dare, _ _ [G] people I become.
[A] People like you at the [D] peak. _ _ _ _ _
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