Chords for Matt Pless - "The Breadline" (A Fistful Of Vinyl sessions) on KXLU 88.9 FM Los Angeles

_ All right, so this song is a song I wrote
About the falling and failing economy and it's called the breadline _
My one friend back home said the lyrics were too Steinbeck, but I don't know
I'm not sure if that's an issue or not
I don't really care
But I just thought was a funny way to introduce the song because you know, nobody wants to be [Eb] Steinbeck, right? _
_ _ I'm not I think Hemingway kind of did _
[D] _ _ _ It's called a breadline goes like [G] this
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_ _ _ _ _ _ The foundation shakes as [C] the [G] dominoes fall the pockets are empty
[D] The shelters are [G] full and the prices keep rising
In spite of it all in a prison where no one is looking _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Philosophies fly from both sides of the fence the light at the end [D] of the tunnel grows [G] dim
All the pieces are blazed [C] for a war we [Gm] can win [G] where the problem outruns the solution
So [C] the bed is saved it tears
[G] Mom, don't you cry [D] because where there's smoke there's [G] fire and the water's running dry while [C] politicians
Funnel money [G] with the wink of an eye.
We're [D] going hungry [C] in the [G] breadline tonight _ _ _ _ _
The
_ Entrepreneurs [C] claw their way [G] to the top the squatters all can [D] handle down on their luck
[G] Everybody wants more [C] and that's never [Cm] enough
[G] We forget what we've got to begin with the _ _ _ _ _ bankers count coins [C] under blankets [G] of gold
consumers complain [D] while they buy what they're sold [G] and the
Titanic sails [C] where the snake [Cm] oil flows [Gm] and the shark [D] circle
[G] surface
_ [C] Yeah, you better save your tears [G] mama
Don't you try [D] because where there's smoke there's fire [G] and the water's running dry while [C] politicians guzzle
[G] $100 bottles of wine.
We're going hungry [C] in the bread [Gm] line [G] tonight
I've _ _ _ seen highways of [C] people all filled [G] up for miles
They're dragging their feet [D] while they carry their lives [G] in an old world.
That's [C] dying
They're trying to survive [G] off the scraps of what's left to believe in _
_ _ _ So here's to [C] tomorrow for better [G] or worse
We all make the [D] journey from cradle to hearse [G] and it breaks you
They takes [C] you for all [Cm] that you're worth [G] and the cycle just keeps on repeating
_ [C] But you better save your [G] tears mom
Don't you try because [D] where there's smoke there's fire [G] and the water's running dry [C] while
Politicians make decisions [G] that can cost you your life.
[D] We're going hungry
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ Man I like that bluesy ending.
Yeah, blues are fun.
He's broke it down
I just learned from a devilish hipster in Tennessee.
_ How much did it cost you?
You know, you know what my soul it's not worth that much _ _
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