Tripwire

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Intro: E C#m F#m B7

E                              
Just because you don’t speak the 
    C#m
language
F#m                       
Doesn’t mean that you can’t 
              B7
understand
E                              
Just because you don’t speak the 
    C#m
language
F#m                       
Doesn’t mean that you can’t 
              B7
understand
E                            
The twist in the script of the 
               C#m
insult
F#m                               
Scrawled on the back of your hand
        B7


E                                 
Torn from the pages of scripture
  C#m

F#m                         B7
Sprayed on the wall in the frays of 
a flag
E                         C#m
Kisses forbidden on lips
F#m                               
And all of your fine clothes worn 
     B7
into rags

E             C#m       
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, 
F#m       B7
tripwire
E
There’s a tripwire
C#m       F#m        B7
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire

E                              
Don’t open the door ‘cause they’re 
C#m
coming
F#m                          B7
Don’t open the door ‘cause they’re 
here
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E                                 
Above there’s an ominous humming
       C#m

F#m                               B7
Below there’s a murmur of prayer

E                               C#m
Torn from the pages of scandal
F#m                              
Sprayed on a wall in the frays of 
B7
the flag
E                         C#m
Kisses forbidden on lips
F#m                               
and all of your fine clothes blown
     B7
 into rags

E             C#m       
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, 
F#m       B7
tripwire
E
There’s a tripwire
C#m       F#m        B7
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire

E
There’s a cross in the line there’s 
a circus
E
There’s a voice that you might 
overhear
E
There’s a lens making the picture 
perfect
E
They say you have nothing to fear

E                                  
Torn from the pages of pamphlets
C#m

F#m                           B7
Thrown in the air like confetti in 
church
E                                  
Far, far away there’s a target
C#m

F#m                         
and the sound of an army just 
         B7
starting to march

E             C#m       
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, 
F#m       B7
tripwire
E
There’s a tripwire
C#m       F#m        B7
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire

E                           
Just because I don’t read the 
   C#m
language
F#m                       B7
Doesn’t mean that I'm blind to the 
threat
E                                 
Though I thought there was more to
                      C#m
 forgiveness
F#m                                
Than all we conveniently forget
B7


E                                 
Torn from the pages of history
  C#m

F#m                        B7
Repeated again and again and again
E                             C#m
You’re either for or against us
F#m                        B7
and that is how the hatred begins


(repeat 2 or 3 times and fade, or 
play twice and finish with an E)
E             C#m       
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire, 
F#m       B7
tripwire
E
There’s a tripwire
C#m       F#m        B7
Tripwire, tripwire, tripwire