Vampire Weekend – Gen-X Cops (Guitar)

Capo 5
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Intro] Em G C Em G C Em F G Am G F C [Verse 1]
Em             G                   C
   Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe

Em         G                  C
   Forever cursed to live unrelaxed

Em            F        G              Am
   We make no bones, a house is not a home

      G                      F C
And a home is nowhere we can stay
[Verse 2]
Em            G                         C
   Dodged the draft but can't dodge the war

Em         G                  C
   Forever cursed to live insecure

Em             F        G             Am
   The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles

G                          F C
Trembling before our human nature
[Chorus 1]
Dm                     C
   It wasn't built for me

Dm      Am        G
   It's your academy

F           C         G                Am
  But in my time, you taught me how to see

G                           F        C
  Each generation makes its own apology
Em G C Em G C Em F G Am G F C [Verse 3]
Em         G               C
   Welcome back, my oldest friend

Em         G                 C
   Are you cursed to depart again?

Em               F       G          Am
   Your ways and means, eternally obscene

           G                         F C
And always looking for obscenity and hatred
[Chorus 2]
Dm                     C
   It wasn't built for me

Dm      Am        G
   It's your academy

F           C         G                Am
  But in my time, you taught me how to see

G                           F        C
  Each generation makes its own apology
Em G C Em G C Em F G Am G F C [Outro]
Dm                     C
   It wasn't built for me

Dm      Am        G
   It's your academy

F           C         G                Am
  But in my time, you taught me how to see

G                           F        C
  Each generation makes its own apology

F                    G            Am
  It's by design and consequentially

G                           F        C
  Each generation makes its own apology