Chords for Kevin Devine "Nobel Prize" - Pandora Whiteboard Sessions

_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
Are [A#] you a nightmare [F#m] or an [G#] oracle?
_ _ [B] Unavoidable
Are [C#] you the [A#] future [F#] or a plausible [C#] worst case scenario?
[B] _
You [A#] visited in my [F#m] sleep _ every [G#] night this [B] week
You [A#] curled yourself in my [F#] lap and smiled [A#m] while you spoke
[B] _ _
Once we poison [F#] all the water and [B] _
once we blacken [F#] out the air
_ _ [B] We'll finish [F#] murdering each other, fair is [C#]
fair
I _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [G#] tried to talk you [F#m] down, there's a [G#m] better half
You're not looking [B] at _ a [G#] greater empathy
_ [F#m] You [C#] shrugged me off, talked over [B] me _
[E] You and your simple _ [F#m] life, they [G#m] come at a complex price
And they're [A#] busting through the [F#] gates to steal it [A#m] for themselves
[G#] _ [B] I say we razor [F#] blade the border _ [B] or even take the [F#] fight to them
_ _ [B] Yeah, let's go [F#] slaughtering the natives again
[C#] _ Or _ _ _ [B] _
we could [F#] fire up the program [B] and let the drones do [F#] all the dirt
_ [B] _
I might even win a [F#] Nobel Peace Prize, well [C#] deserved
_ _ [A#] It's _ _ _ [D#m]
every bit as ugly, [G#] it's every bit as [B] brutal
It's every bit as dark as [F#] its light
_ _ [B] _
Paralyzed, wondering [F#] why while [C#] she's dead asleep
_ _ _ _ [D] [D#m] I'm starving for protection, [G#] I'm pulled in all directions
I'm [B] never certain which is the [F#m] lie
_ [G] The [B]
elegance of [F#] being alive or the [C#]
agony
_ _ [A#] _ _ [B] Once _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
we poison [F#] all the water [B] and once we blacken [F#] out the _ air
[B] We'll finish [F#] murdering each other, fair is [C#] _
fair
It's [A#] _ _ _ [D#m] _ fair
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A#] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _