Banks Chords
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Difficulty: | intermediate |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Capo: | no capo |
Author wesjones.stem [pro] 85. 3 contributors total, last edit on Aug 22, 2021
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[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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4 comments

Thanks for the chords!
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Thank you
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Thanks a lot, sounds great!
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