Song For The Stray Cat On The Fence
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
A C D G (x2)
[Verse 1]
A C
I skipped class and took the number five bus
D Am
All the way east, just to see where it ends
Am C
Smoked a cigarette at Udall Station
D Am
Got back on the bus again
Am C D
We've been this way since you met me
Am
Hearts not heavy, but empty
Am C
And once a song could raise me up, but now
D Am
there's nothing, so I stumbled home a
broken man
Am C C5
With blood on my hands, dead on my feet
Shot down where I stand
Am C
With blood on my hands, dead on my feet
Dm Am
Shot where I stand
[Chrous]
C G Am
Freedom is beautiful and terrible, it's
F
nothing soft and sweet
C G Am
It's used bullets on the sidewalk, fires
F
across the street
C G Am
It's you moving in with your new boyfriend
F
in Oakland
C G Am
It's a pack of wild dogs on a road
F
without a street lamp
C G
It's roaches in the bathroom, mice in the kitchen
Am F
And no one left to blame for the way I've been living
C G
It's mice in the kitchen, roaches in the bathroom
Am N.C.
And no one left to blame
[Break]
Am C D G
Am C D A5
[Verse 2]
Am C
I woke up late and missed class again
D Am
And so I brewed a pot of coffee and went back to bed
Am
Snatch some bread selling junk from the
C
back of the shed
D
Hop the fence, because the front's being
Am
watched by the feds
Am Am C
We've been this way since we've been
D
alive, reckless and shy
Am C
So I set fire to the house and took off running
D Am
I hope that you won't mind
Am N.C.
I burned down the house to get myself out of this hell alive
Am C
I burned down the house to get myself out
Dm Am
I hope you don't mind
[Chorus]
C G
Freedom is nothing soft and sweet, it's
Am F
beautiful and terrible
C G
It's admitting everything that I don't
Am F
want anyone to know
C G
It's telling people that I love I stole
Am F
from them when they weren't looking
C G
It's fucking up so many times that they
Am F
won't pick up when I call them
C G
It's watching people die because they got back in it
Am F
And knowing that I don't have any say in it
C G Am N.C.
It's watching people die, and knowing I don't get any say
[Outro]
Am C D G
Am C D Am
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