C
Tourists stumble down Broadway
Fm
Cumberland keeps claiming bodies
C
All our best memories were bought
Fm
And then turned into apartments
C
The club with all the hardcore shows
Fm
Now just a grayscale Domino's
C
The churches overflow each Sunday
Fm
Greedy Sunday morning

C                       Fm
(Ooh) Gift shop in the lobby
C                        Fm
(Ooh) Act like God ain't watching
C                          Fm
(Mmm) Kill the soul, turn a profit
C                            Fm
(Mmm) What lives on? Southern Gotham

C                                      Ab  Fm
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
Cm                              G
I reanimate your bones with my belief
Ab                         Fm
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
Cm                              G             C   Fm
I reanimate your bones, 'cause I'm a true believer

They put up chain-link fences
Fm
Underneath the biggest bridges
C
They pose in Christmas cards
Fm
With guns as big as all their children
C
They say that Jesus is the way
Fm
But then they gave Him a white face
C
So they don't have to pray to
Fm
Someone they deem lesser than them

C                               Fm
(Ooh) The South will not rise again
C                               Fm
(Ooh) Till it's paid for every sin
C                               Fm
(Mmm) Strange fruit, hard bargain
C                                 Fm
(Mmm) Till the roots, Southern Gotham

Ab                       Fm
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
Cm                              G
I reanimate your bones with my belief
Ab                         Fm
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
Cm                              G             C   Fm
I reanimate your bones, 'cause I'm a true believer