Authority Chords

[Intro]
G
 
[Verse 1]
G                  Bm          C                Am
Seventeen, working overtime the acting part of a slow decline
      Em                        C
I was caught in a trance like a viper advancin'
D
Totally over it, down on the corner
      G                      Bm           C                  Am
I had wrote my name on a picket sign I've had my knife since '99
              Em                       C
And I've been driving at night with my head in the lights
        D
And I'm already gone by the time I got back
 
[Verse 2]
            G            Bm                 C                  Am
To the other side of the big dumb world I found my place my style unfurled
       Em                  C
like a carrier pigeon, the only religion
       D
Got me cutting it back to the part on my heart
          G                    Bm                 C                 Am
Where the roses roam and the crew is game, a photograph of an empty frame
      Em                        C
I was caught in a moment with a worthy opponent
        D                                                 G
And I'm thumbing my nose at the rose on a thorn of authority
Bm      C     Am   Em  C   D
     Ah yeah
 
[Verse 3]
G                   Bm            C                     Am
Over and over and over again I'll know it's time by the time it ends
      Em                             C
I was shot in the shadow but I'm bleeding for real
     D
When somebody loves you they water the wheel
    G                     Bm                 C               Am
She saved my ass at the break of dawn, my files in pieces, my money's gone
      Em                           C
I was under persuasion, a syndicated occasion
       D
on the opening night of the fight for the likes
 
[Verse 4]
       G            Bm                C                  Am
Of the allegorical rainbow bright believe you me it's an oversight
          Em                      C
I've been roaming with omens in a paper canoe
          D
And I can tell it's a lie by the size of your shoes
            G           Bm             C                   Am
Yeah it's only a moment every time the gloves go up but the stars align
        Em                    C
You can marry a mission under scary conditions
        D                                                   G
but I'm blowing my horn on the side of the thorn of authority
Bm      C     Am   Em  C   D
     Ah yeah
 
[Outro]
D                                                       G
I'm blowing my horn on the side of the thorn of authority
Bm      C     Am   Em  C   D
     Ah yeah
G
     Ah yeah
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