Chords for Before the Water Gets Too High

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Seldom have I ever questioned the end _ Still I grow frost when I'm _ reminded
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_ Euphemisms on a loop interchange _ Which hands [Dm] get to turn the final [G] page
In whose throat belongs the swan song Crisis _ warming, [F] denial change
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[Dm] State TV helps the public [D] explain _ Broadcast [Dm] beamed into the [F] dry [D] terrain _
_ Images of trench survival [G]
Without hope but [F] soaked with pain
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_ [F] Consequences of [D] reality felt All [Dm] conditions of [F] humanity [D] built
On the bridges, tent villages [G]
Waiting for the [C] state to help
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Glass barely bends before [G] it cracks _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ Embedded down into [G] our path
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_ Paved in the crimson of [G] our tracks _ _ _ _ [Eb] Without _ _ the chance of [C] turning back
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [D] Before the water [A] gets too hot _ _ [G] _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] Before the [G] water gets too hot _ _ _
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[E] If the clock strikes [G] midnight then _ What [Dm] becomes of our _ [G] _
demonstrations?
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[F] To which fate have these [D] gatherings fell?
Which walls [Dm] echo all the [F] chants we [D] yelled?
Into faces on [G] the coins we've tossed [D] into the [F] wishing well
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Drinking water on which we subsist _ Mixing into [Dm] rivers that [F] did not [D] exist _
Yesterday when all [G] the warning signs were there but [F] sorely missed
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What's [A] it worth, all the money we made _ Floating [F] idly in a newborn [D] lake
Far above _ financial _ [G] centers Cities sink like market rates
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Glass barely bends before [G] it cracks _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ Embedded down into [G] our path
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_ Paved in the crimson of [G] our tracks _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
Without the chance of [C] turning back
_ _ _ [F] Before [D]
the water gets too hot _ _ Add up [F] the bribes you take
And [G] no time can [D] be bought [G] _ By the profits [D] that you make
[F] _ [D] Before the water gets too hot [G] _ To float the powers that [F] be
Or is [G] it someone [D] else's job Until [G] the rich [D] are in new [F] jeans?
_ [D] Before the water gets too hot _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] Before the water gets [D] too hot
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [D] Before the water gets too hot [G] _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [G] Before the water gets [D] too hot
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