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Burning City Smoke

Kevin Devine

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: A
F#m - X-10-12-12-11-10

A
40 million refugees
        D               E                       A
with no place on this earth to call their home
        A
one for every aimless graduate
        D               E                  A
with nothing else to show for it but loans
        D               A
And those of us who make a mark
        E               A
use someone else's blood
        D                       A
Our western stain won't wash away
        E               A
won't vanish in the flood
        Bm                        A
It goes deeper through each hurricane
        D       E               Bm        A
and tidal wave and war
              C#m             F#m
We want everything we see
                Bm        E              A
and once it's gone we just want more
A
Atlas had those shoulders
               D                     E                 A
We've got Ambien and Jamesons and blow
     A
to bind us in a bubble
              D                        E                   A
keep the newsprint nightmare distant and remote
        D               A
But when we wake in guillotines 
        E                        A
And pitch our screaming fits
                D               A
When the governors strikes up the band 
        E               A
And gags our parted lips
                Bm                        A
When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling, 
  D       E     Bm       A
Ready for the ball
              C#m             F#m
Boy, that bubbles bound to burst, 

                  Bm     E               A
And what a tragic way to fall
A
The tabloids tell us hate the rat that 
D                            E                      A
Strikes those subways closed and puts you out
A                                       D
Forgot those 50 hour tunnel weeks inhaling 
                E                    A
Steel dust poison through his mouth
D                               A
Well if he don’t deserve a pension that 
                E          A
Makes his family feel secure
D                       A
If we're now so disconnected
        E               A
it's our reflections we ignore
                Bm
And if our constant choices
A                       D       E       Bm      A
skim and pass the writing on the wall
                C#m             F#m
Then, I'm sad to say we're lost
                Bm         E    A
and I'm embarrassed for us all
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