Corb Lund – Police State (Guitar)

E
I got me a badge, got me a gun

B
Someday gonna get to shoot someone

E
Be in the paper, on TV

B
Everybody gonna wanna interview me

A             E
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Beat and tase, escalate

A             E
Police state, it's OK

     B                    E
It's us that get to investigate

B                      E
(Us that gets to investigate)

E
Write some tickets, confiscate

B
Seize and misappropriate

E
Buy some gear and fancy guns

B
To use upon the citizens

E
I love civil forfeiture

B
It's making lots of money for

E
Cameras that won't film us when

B
Someone has an 'accident'

A             E
Police state, pepper spray

B             E
Beat and tase, escalate

A             E
Police state, it's OK

     B                    E
It's us that get to investigate

B                      E
(Us that gets to investigate)

E
Ninety days with full pay

B
Time off just to contemplate

E
The fact that I can have my fun

B
And no other cops will tell no one

E
Cruise my cruiser down the street

B
Why would I ever walk a beat

E
And locally familiarize

B
Much more fun to militarize

A             E
Police state, pepper spray

B             E
Beat and tase, escalate

A             E
Police state, it's OK

     B                    E
It's us that get to investigate

B                      E
(Us that gets to investigate)