Ezra Furman – Lilac And Black (Guitar)

Capo 2
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Chords

Emadd9 = 022002 [Intro]
G          D          C
  We all escaped from somewhere else

G                     D              C
  To the cruel, cruel city where the asphalt melts

Em                   Bm          Am
  In the heat of our anger          which finds no release

D                             C
  In the lab rat maze of ever-narrowing streets

     G             D       C
It's no surprise

          G                 D       C
We've got blood in our eyes

            G             D       C
We've been alone too long

G             D               C
  We belong together with our weapons drawn
Em C D x2 [Verse 1]
                     Em
Tonight, tonight I'm dreaming of my queer girl gang

       C                D
We who walk this deadly path

        Em
And the city that tries to kill us each night

     C                   D
Will soon bow before our wrath, ah
Em C D [Verse 2]
         Em
We've got  death stares to ward off enemies

C                      D
Amulets to ward off fear

      Em
And I try to keep count, try to guess the amount

       C                          D
Who'll make it through the coming year

D
The coming year
Em [Pre-Chorus]
Am
So now we're calling out to stations 'cross the underground

G
Gather all your savages and send them out

Am
If you get the signal come defend the crown

     C      G         D
That nobody knows you wear
[Chorus]
               Em             G
We're out here on the attack

            C               D
We wear the lilac and black

             Em               G
We might not make it back

            C               D
We wear the lilac and black

Em       C    D x2
(aggressively, like the chorus)

Em       C    D x2
(softer, like verses)
[Verse 3]
    Em
The cis question if we really exist,

         C               D
Sometimes even we've got doubts

        Em
But the feminine deferred like a rubbed-out word

         C                               D
Is still passed around from mouth to mouth

      Emadd9        C    D
Hell, yeah
[Verse 4]
         Em
We might smile and laugh in a photograph

        C                         D
But you know our pretty heads are haunted

          Em
We're the frozen girls in a planned-out world

           C                     D
They never once asked us what we wanted, no
Em [Pre-Chorus]
             Am
So now we're in the territory we've been in before

G
End the preparations as begin the war

    Am
The streets of this city's what we're asking for

          C           G           D
And we'll take 'em if they're not given
[Chorus]
            Em               G
We're never coming back

            C                D
We wear the lilac and black

               Em            G
We're out here on the attack

            C                D
We wear the lilac and black

                 Em              G
No, we might not make it back

            C                    D
Oh, we wear lilac and black

            Em                   G
We leave no trace you can track

            C                    D
We wear the lilac and black
[Outro] Em G C D x2