Ezra Furman – Trauma (Guitar Live)

D                         C
What makes a girl start a fire in the hall

        Em                     G               G7
Leave a lipstick scrawl on the bathroom mirror?

D                      C
She won't settle for a pile of scrap metal

          Em                    G             D
While you work the gas pedal at another man's steer

D                     C
She takes her time as authorities arrive

      Em                     G          A#m F D
Going out for a smoke in the empty back lot

D                      C
She sees the world she imagined as a girl

      G                              D
Was a lottery ticket for a phony jackpot

E                                   G              D
Years roll on and we still have not dealt with our trauma

E                                   G             A
Years roll on and we still have not looked at our sin

D                       C
What makes a man take a hammer in his hand

        Em                       G           A#m D
Shatter every last window of the company store

D                C
At 3 AM with the furies back again?

         Em                    G        D
Now it's him against them in a personal war

D                  C
The mind snaps and economies collapse

         Em                             G              A#m
When the one who works hardest gets the smallest reward

D               C
The big scam is nobody gives a damn

         Em                             G            D
That the penthouse suite depends on the bottom three floors

Bm    G                         D
And I know how hard you've been working

Bm     G                        D
We all know somebody who's been killed

Bm                         G
We hold power, though it's only for the hour

        D
Let the ivory tower know the power we wield

Bm                       G                                D
They know we got 'em and empire's in its autumn when it's built

E                                   G              D
Years roll on and we still have not dealt with our trauma

E                                   G             A
Years roll on and we still have not looked at our sin