Chords for Ramshackle Glory - 4 - From Here Till Utopia (Song For The Desperate)

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Well, I'm afraid that the circles I've [E] been drinking myself in are big enough for the bowels [Am] that I tried to [G] fit inside.
_ [E] Love them.
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_ _ When I was young I drank too much and [E] I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel so goddamn young [Am] tonight.
_ _ [G] Maybe too young to ask what's on [E] my mind. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Like if freedom [Am] means doing what I want, [E] well, don't I gotta [Am] want something? _
_ [F] _ Won't you tell me that [Am] we want something more than just [E] more beer and my friends if that ain't true?
[Em] Won't you light a [Am] beat and I'll go, [G] yeah!
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_ _ Well, I've been listening to [E] Minor, great records all day and shit if I do not know every [Am] word.
_ _ I sing [G] along and sign a [E] tie-off. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ And Ian Scrinze's ass snapped [E] as I throw the cotton into the spoon drop into the [Am] syringe.
_ I'll know just what he [G] means until I hit [E] it, babe. _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ But at the [Am] _
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very least, [F] _ in a moment the [Am] whole world is gonna melt [E] around me and I'll swear I'll miss it if I lie to you [C] tonight.
Yes, I'm [E] afraid to look [Am] the world in [F] the eyes.
_ _ [C] _ If [E]
nothing's gonna [Am] change, well, then I'd [F] rather die.
_ _ [C] And I'm too [E] unemployed to organize a union.
[Am] I'm too intoxicated [F] to tear down a [C] building.
I'm too hopeless [E] to work for a solution.
[Am] I'm afraid that if I found [F] one, I'd be out of excuses [C] for the way I waste away [E] in a gutter that I chose.
[Am] My fashion accessories [F] could go with my dirty [C] clothes.
I haven't bathed in months, [E] but you know it's not because [Am] I was biting bourgeois morals.
[F] I'm just lazy and I'm young.
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_ _ _ _ I've seen the best minds of my _ [E] generation dying drunk or high from the rooftops of a parking [Am] lot.
_ Stop a [G] dancing West _ [E] Philadelphian squad. _
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They got me waiting on a day when we [E] can say fuck the police with a little bit of integrity.
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When it'll [G] mean I've got your back if [E] you've got mine.
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Give me a [Am] scene where I believe in more [E] than bad haircuts, guilt, and [Am] misery.
_ _ [F] I don't know where I fit [Am] between the vegans and the [E] nihilists.
That might be the first thing I said.
That wasn't all [C] I'd say.
Cause there's [E] gotta be something more [Am] than lying in the front yard [F] naked screaming at the [C] constellations.
I want something more [E] than an apology to say [A] when I look the world [F] in the eye.
I'll tell you [C] man, my friend William came to [E] me with a message of hope.
[Am] If we fuck you in everything [F] that you think you know,
[C]
you don't step outside [E] the things that you believe they're [Am] gonna kill you.
_ [F] _ _ _ [C] Say no one can stop you [E] from dying young in this horrible [Am] way, right?
If you want something [F] better, you gotta put that shit [C] aside.
I've thought out loud [E] for thousands of [Am] years.
There have been people who told us that [F] things can't go on like [C] this.
From Jesus Christ to [E] the diggers, from [Am] Malvin to Thurston, from Paul [F] Marcy to Huey Newton,
but [C] the shit goes [E] on and on and [Am] _ _ [F] on [C] and on and on [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [F] _ [G] and on and on and on.
I'm not saying [F] that we can't change the world, [C] cause everybody [G] does and [Am] we need a little [F] bit of that.
[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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_ _ [D] _ _ [F] And on the night [Am] when our blasts go [E] off, and you're singing so [Am] loud that my heart [F] explodes.
And I'll be singing, [Am] _
I'll be singing [E] we are free. _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Am] Oh but will 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, but promise me we'll always try.
_ [F] _ _ Cause [Am] I don't wanna hate you, [E] _ _ _ [Am] and I don't wanna hate me.
_ [F] _ And [Am] I don't wanna have to hate [E] everything _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] anymore.
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