The Airborne Toxic Event – America (Guitar)

G                                D
Or in the back of the bus by the light of the moon

Em                         C
And when you die they say “It’ll all be changing soon

               G               D               G
And you’ll be free, you’ll be free, you’ll be free”

G                            C
It was two hundred years of war that lit that freedom torch

G                                       D
Went from Southhampton fields up to the White House porch

                    Em                        C
And they’re still shooting all the kids for trying to break that yoke

              G
How can you breathe?

              D
How can you breathe?

              G
How can you breathe?

             G                       C
They gave a fortune away to some Wall Street bank

          G                     D
Like a treasure was sunk on a ship already sank

                    Em
And they’re still standing on the deck

                     C
Trying to get us to walk the plank

                       G            D           G
While they’re lost at sea, lost at sea, lost at sea

            G                          C
But I ain't never had more than ten dollars to my name

             G                        D
And I’ve been told my whole life, “Boy you got to hide your shame”

           Em                      C
For being born like a match set afire by the flame

                  G                 D                G
But I will burn free, I will burn free, I will burn free

         G                        C
When I look all around me, I wonder where they’ve gone

         G                               D
All the people that I loved reduced to memories in a song

           Em
I can hear them trying to remind me

           C
Just remember right from wrong

                      G                     D                   G
Because we fought for thee, we fought for thee, we fought for thee

            G                              C
But I see hatred in the eyes of all these people running scared

            G                        D
Like the world’s been taken by someone who finally dared

          Em         
To just stand up and say we’re staying

           C
We’re not going anywhere

                G                 D                G
And we will be free, we will be free, we will be free

      G                         C
In America you’re born with a silver spoon

           G                       D
Or in the back of the bus by the light of the moon

              Em                   C
And when you die they say, “It’ll all be changing soon

               G              D                 G
And you’ll be free, you’ll be free, you’ll be free”

      G                    
So I wonder which was the lie

      C    
The past in it’s glory 

      G
or the promise of a future 

      D
you and I may never see

        Em                                     C
‘Cause the reasons I've been given sound like bullshit to me

                G             D             G
We’ll wait and see, wait and see, wait and see

       G                            C
Now America, I know I’m not your favorite son

             G                  D
But I did my time and I’m not hurting anyone

            Em                   C
I’m just tired of living at the point of a gun

               G
When will you see?

               D
When will you see?

               G
When will you see?

                     Em
When you say we’re free

C
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