Chords for Ramshackle Glory - From Here to Utopia (Song for the Desperate)

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Well I'm afraid that the circles I've been drinking myself in are big enough for the
vowels [A] that I try to fit [G] inside _ [E] of them.
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When I was young I drank too much and I'd [E] be lying if I said I didn't feel so goddamn young [A] tonight. _ _
[D] Maybe too young to ask what's on my [E] mind. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Like the freedom [A] means doing what I want, well, [E] don't I gotta want [Am] something?
_ _ [F] Won't you tell [Am] me that we want something more than just [E] more beer and my friends if that ain't true?
Won't you lie to me tonight, oh yeah! _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] Well I've been listening to Minor, [E] throwing records all day and shit if I do not know every word.
I sing [G] along as I tie [E] off, _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ and Ian screams he's out of step as I throw the cotton into
the spoon drop into the syringe.
I'll know just what [G] he means until I hit a [E] vein. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ And [A] after that I won't have to bother with knowing who I am, [Am] for a while at least.
[F] _ In a [Am] moment the whole world is gonna melt [E] around me and I'll swear I don't miss it
as I lie to [C] you tonight!
Cause I'm [E] afraid to [A] look the world in [F] the eye.
_ [C] _ _ If [E] nothing's gonna [A] change, well then, I'd [F] rather die.
_ [C] _ And I'm too unemployed [E] to order another [A] union.
I'm too intoxicated [F] to tear down a [C] building.
I'm too [E] hopeless to look for a [Am] solution.
I'm afraid that if I found one, [F] I'd be out of excuses [C] for the way I waked [E] away in the
gutters that I [A] chose.
My fashion accessories to [F] go with my dirty [C] clothes.
I've been bathing [E] months, you know it's not because [A] I've been fighting bourgeois morals.
I'm so sleazy and I'm young.
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_ _ I've seen the best minds of my _ [E] generation die in drug rides from the rooftops of the [A] parking lot.
[D] Stomping dead in West [E] Philadelphian squats. _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ It got me waiting on a day when [E] we can say fuck the police with a little bit of integrity.
[A] _ When it'll [G] mean I've got your back if you've [E] got mine. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ Give me a scene [A] where I believe in more [E] than bad haircuts, guilt, and [A] misery. _ _
_ [F] Don't know where I fit [A] between the vegans and the nihilists.
[E] That might be the first thing I've said.
That wasn't a lie [C] tonight!
Cause there's gotta be something more than [Am] lying in the front yard naked, screaming [F] at the constellations.
[C] I want something more than [E] an apology to say [A] when I look the world in the eye.
I'll tell you [C] man, my friend William came to [E] me with a message of hope.
[A] It went fuck you and everything [F] that you think you know.
[C] If you don't step outside, [E] the things that you believe, [Am] they're gonna kill you. _ _ _ _
_ [C] Shit, no one's gonna stop [E] you from dying young in [A] Metro Polaroid.
If you want [F] something better, you gotta put [C] that shit aside.
I thought about how [E] for thousands of years, [Am] there have been people who told us that [F] they
can't go on like [C] this.
From Jesus [E] Christ to the diggers, from [Am] Mount Visserson, from Karl [F] Marx to Huey Newton,
[C] but the shit goes on and on and [E] on and on [A] and on and _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [D] on.
I'm not saying that [F] we can't change the world.
[C] Not [D] everybody does, at [F] least a little bit of that.
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But I [E] won't shit [F] myself.
The way I'm living [C] is a [D] temper tantrum and [Am] I need something else, need something [F] else,
need something [G] else to stay alive.
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_ [D] _ _ [F] And on the [Am] night when I play my last show, I hope [E] I'm screaming so loud that [Am] my heart explodes.
[F] And I'll be singing, [A] _ I'll be singing we [E] are free. _
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[Am] Oh, but will you promise me [E] that we won't ever [Am] forget what that means?
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I know [Am] it's hard to give a shit _ sometimes, [E] but promise me we'll always try. _ _
[F] _ Cause [A] I don't wanna hate you, _ [E] _ _ and I [A] don't wanna hate me, _ [F] _ _ and I [Am] don't wanna have to hate [E] everything _ _ _ _
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