From Here to Utopia (Song for the Desperate) Chords

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] Well I'm afraid that the circles I've [E] been drinking myself in are big enough for the
[Am] bowels that I try to fit [G] inside.
_ [E] Love them.
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_ When I was young I drank too much and I'd be [E] lying if I said I didn't feel so goddamn young tonight.
[Am] _ _ Maybe [G] too young to ask what's [E] on my mind. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Like getting free to [Am] means doing what I want, well, [E] don't I gotta [Am] want something? _
_ [F] Won't you tell me [Am] that we want something more than [E] just more beer and my friends, if that
[Em] ain't true, won't you lie to me?
[Am] No, [Em] yeah!
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_ Well I've been listening to minor [E] great records all day, shit if I did not know every [Am] word.
_ I'd [G] sing along and sign a [E] tie off, _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ and Ian Scrimsey's half-snap as [E] I throw the cotton
into the sprue, drop into the [Am] syringe.
I'll know just what [G] he means until I [E] hit a vein. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ But after [Am] that _
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was released, _ [F] _ in a moment the [Am] whole world is gonna melt [E] around me and I'll
swear I'll miss it.
And I lied to you [C] tonight!
You said [E] I'm afraid to look [Am] the world [F] in the eye.
_ [C] _ If [E] nothing's gonna change, [Am] well then, I'd [F] rather die.
_ _ [C] And I'm too unemployed [E] to organize a union.
[Am] I'm too _ intoxicated [F] to tear down a building.
[C] I'm too hopeless [E] to look for a solution.
I'm [Am] afraid that if I found [F] one, I'd be out of excuses [Dm] for [C] the way I waste away in [E] the
gutter that I [Am] chose.
I fashion accessories to [F] go with my dirty [C] clothes.
I haven't peed in months, but [E] you know it's not because [Am] I've been fighting bourgeois morals.
[F] I'm just lazy and I'm young.
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_ _ _ I've seen the best minds out my [E] channel.
The brashest guy and drunker high from the rooftops of a parking lot.
[Am] _ _ Stomper [G]-dadding West _ [E] Philadelphian squads. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ Ain't got me waiting on a day when we [E] can say fuck the police with a little bit of integrity.
[Am] _ When it'll [G] mean I've got your back if you've [E] got mine.
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Give me a scene [Am] where I believe in more [E] than bad haircuts, guilt, and [Am] misery.
_ _ [F] I don't know where I'd fit [Am] between the vegans and the nihilists.
[E] That might be the first thing I said.
That wasn't a lie [C] tonight!
Cause there's gotta [E] be something more [Am] than lying in the front yard naked, [F] screaming at the [C] constellations.
I want something more [E] than an apology to say [Am] when I've looked the world [F] in the eye.
I'll tell you [C] man, Conrad Williams came to [E] me with a message of hope.
[Am] If we fuck you in [F] everything that you think you know.
[C] If you don't step outside [E] the things that you believe, they're [Am] gonna kill you.
_ [F] _ _ _ [C] They know what's gonna stop you [E] from dying young, you nit, [Am] you're a bully, right?
If you want something [F] better, you gotta put that shit [C] aside.
I've knocked on doors [E] for thousands of [Am] years.
There have been people who've told us that [F] things can't go on like [C] this.
From Jesus crying through the [E] diggers, my [Am] mouth is dispersing.
I call them R's [F] at UANews.
Fuck [C] the shit, go on [E] and on and [Am] _ _ [F] on [C] and on and on [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [F] and on [G] and on and on.
I'm not saying [F] that we can't change the world.
[C] Cause everybody [G] dies and we [Am] still live in [F] it. _
[Am] _ _ But I [E] won't shit [F] myself.
The way I'm living [C] is a temper [G] tantrum.
[Am] And I need something [E] else, need something [F] else, need [G] something else to stay [C] alive.
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show [E] I'll be singing so loud [Am] that my heart [F] explodes.
And I'll be singing, [Am] _
I'll be singing [E] we are free. _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] Oh but won't you promise me [E] that we won't ever [Am] forget what that [F] means.
I know [Am] it's hard to give a shit _ [E] sometimes.
Promise me while we cry.
_ [F] _ _ Cause I [Am] don't wanna hate you.
[E] _ _ And [Am] I don't wanna hate me.
_ [F] _ And [Am] I don't wanna have to hate [E] everything _ _ _ _ _ [Am] anymore.
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_ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ [G] Finally!