Banks Chords

[Verse 1]
      C                   G
Milemarker twenty-seven says we’re on the way to Heaven
      Dm                         C
And I smile at the passenger seat
      F
Forty miles from Chicago
 
There is snow on the windshield
 
And you’re downtown dragging your feet
 
        C                           G
Now I’m circling the block around Union Central Station
              Am                         Bb
And there are bullets flying into the car
         F
It’s the same as it’s always been
         Fm
It’s the same as it’s always been
 
            C
Two-hundred miles from Chicago:
 
There is blood on the windshield
         G
And I am reeling as you gather your things
         F
I said I don’t know what to do anymore
 
As if I knew what to do before
      Fm
I can fuck up almost anything
 
 
[Chorus]
C                             Em
I don’t think that I would exactly call it love
         F
But it’s dripping down my consciousness
            Fm
As you’re slipping down my lungs
 
 
[Verse 2]
          C                          G
I want to build you a protest out of sticks and rocks
              Am                  Bb
I find in the backyard behind the house you grew up in
   F                Fm
In loving memory of all our nonconformity
          C                              G
I want to sing you a signal that reaches only the ears
   Am                    Bb
Of young disenfranchised straight white boys
        F                           Fm
Because that would feel normal, and none of this does
 
 
[Chorus]
C                            Em
I don’t think that I would exactly call it love
         F
But it’s dripping down my consciousness
          Fm
As you’re slipping down my lungs
 
   C                           Em
So save it for a rainy day and maybe then you’ll see
     F                                     Fm
That I am like the earth, old man, there’s no way around me
 
 
[Verse 3]
    C          G
But even in my dreams
              Dm            F
I still don’t know the difference between
C                G    Dm           F
What it is I want and what it is I need
                   C          G
I wanna see you be brave
                  F
I wanna see you surviving
            C
I wanna see both of us
G              F
Prospering and thriving separately
 
           C            G
I want the catharsis of knowing
          Dm             F
Something bad’s about to happen
         C              G         Dm       F
But also knowing that I can’t do anything about it
             C                    G
Because your new house just don’t shut
               Bb              F
Quite like the one you grew up in used to
  C              G
I wanna come and visit
  Dm             F
I wanna see this through, but
C       G                   Dm              F
I never will because you’re just not what I need
         C                 G
And I am just not what you want
                 Dm         F
Though you’re in everyone I meet and
 
C                  G                     Dm             F
We’ll say fuck the banks but we’ll still use them every day
            C                  G
And when we fight amongst ourselves
    Dm                F
The banks will say “Okay
               C                G           Bb             F
Have you been spending all your capital on causes you deem just?
         C              G               Bb            F
You keep doing what you can, we’ll keep doing what we must.”
      C                  G
So despite what you have learned
             Bb                 F
In songs for which you’d take a bullet
          C              G
You won’t find objective truth
     Bb            F
In a final rhyming couplet
                           C7
A couplet, a couplet, a couplet...
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