Some Crap About the Future Electric President
You spread your [C#m]rusty fingers across the ledge.[B]
You get your grip and peer down over the [E]edge.
You watch the city move and breathe and migrate.
Youâ??re not apart of it. Youâ??re broken now, l[C#m]ike us.
I turn and brush the [B]birds from off my s[E]houlders.
And cross [Abm]side-walks with an earful of white noise.
[C#m]You sit up on your perch for the rest of the [B]night.
You watch the moon and hope the damn thing crum[E]bles.
You count the stars reflecting in the windows.
And then you realize just how minimal you are.
[C#m]I stop and watch the [B]airplanes leave the [E]city.
And I [Abm]silently wish I was on one.
[C#m]You sit down slow and watch yourself in the [B]glass.
You reach inside and tear out all your ca[E]bles.
Snakes of smoke are dripping from your fingers.
You have no body, just a cage to hold your parts.
[C#m]I have no answers; Iâ??[B]m rambling.
I was [E]never one to [Abm]solve whatever has gone wrong.
[C#m]You lie down on the roof and watch the sun [B]rise.
Its burning fingers rummage through your in[E]sides.
And for a moment you feel like youâ??re alive.
And then itâ??s gone, so you get up.
[E]Up, up, baby. Thereâ??s blood on the sidewalks of thi[B]s town.
Theyâ??ve got us on th[C#m]e ropes. But we donâ??t have[B] to take it lying d[A]own anymore.
Our hands arenâ??t tied now.
[E]Down, down, baby. Down in the in the center of this [B]town.
Theyâ??ve got â??em bur[C#m]ied deep.
Under layers of [B]concrete are the bones of our [A]past.
(Oh no, no)
[C#m]Weâ??l[B]l leave on th[E]e evenin[A]g train.
[C#m]It wonâ??t b[B]e long, but i[E]t feels tha[A]t way.
[C#m]But home never [B]meant very much to us [E]any__[A]way.
[C#m]So we convince our[B]selves that weâ??re better of[A]f gone.
And maybe weâ??r[E]e right.
And [E]we col[B]lapse on a [C#m]road.
On an [B]old dirt road, where the [A]sun doesnâ??[B]t look like such [E]a waste.
And [E]we fall [B]asleep, under [C#m]leaves of a [B]couple of them nearby [A]tress.
And we [B]never wake [E]again.
Never again, no never again.
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