Kevin Devine – Burning City Smoke (Ukulele)

Capo - 1st Fret
F#m - X-10-12-12-11-10

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40 million refugees

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with no place on this earth to call their home

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one for every aimless graduate

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with nothing else to show for it but loans

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And those of us who make a mark

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use someone else's blood

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Our western stain won't wash away

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won't vanish in the flood

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It goes deeper through each hurricane

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and tidal wave and war

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We want everything we see

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and once it's gone we just want more

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Atlas had those shoulders

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We've got Ambien and Jamesons and blow

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to bind us in a bubble

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keep the newsprint nightmare distant and remote

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But when we wake in guillotines 

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And pitch our screaming fits

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When the governors strikes up the band 

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And gags our parted lips

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When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling, 

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Ready for the ball

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Boy, that bubbles bound to burst, 

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And what a tragic way to fall

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The tabloids tell us hate the rat that 

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Strikes those subways closed and puts you out

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Forgot those 50 hour tunnel weeks inhaling 

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Steel dust poison through his mouth

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Well if he don't deserve a pension that 

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Makes his family feel secure

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If we're now so disconnected

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it's our reflections we ignore

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And if our constant choices

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skim and pass the writing on the wall

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Then, I'm sad to say we're lost

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and I'm embarrassed for us all