Slow Death Hymn

[Intro/Continues through first verse]
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[Verse 1]
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 2000 was fired out from a cannon
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 The neighbors shot up at the lamps
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 We piled in the street and stood 
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for our anthems
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 On top of the cars with bottles in 
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hand
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 This year crept up, who could see
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 it coming?
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 No one saw the signs, if any were 
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there
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 The distant funeral marches 
  D
drumming
F#m        E                     
 I’ll take life, don’t care if 
   D    E
it’s fair

[Bridge/Continues like this into next verse]
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[Verse 2]
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 Read too many tales with terrible 
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endings
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 Gods and machines that get in the 
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way
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 You thought we were home
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Turns out we were renting
F#m         E                 D 
 Until I am gone, I’m here to 
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stay
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 Taken away, our friends, our lovers
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 By cancer, heroin, tragedy
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 It’s not the wakes I’m worried over
F#m              E               
 It’s knowing we have to go to 
D     E
sleep

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[Chorus]
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 If it’s a highway
     D              A
I am trying just to drive
     D              A
I am trying just to drive
     E              A    E
Stay awake and stay alive
F#m        A
 If it’s a highway
       D                A
I want you there at the side
       D                A
I want you there at the side
        E               A
 Still awake and still alive

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[Verse 3/Same pattern as last verse]
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 The songs we thought we’d have to 
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bury
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 We faced ‘em head on right away
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 Every reason to cry, not one to 
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worry
F#m               E              
 Drive faster and further is my 
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only change
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 So tattoo our arms and raise our 
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glasses
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 Call out your names this New Years 
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Eve
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 And may the next time we kneel at
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 a casket
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 We say, “At least the story’s 
      D         E
complete.”

[Chorus]
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 If it’s a highway
     D              A
I am trying just to drive
     D              A
I am trying just to drive
     E              A    E
Stay awake and stay alive
F#m        A
 If it’s a highway
       D                A
I want you there at the side
       D                A
I want you there at the side
        E               A
 Still awake and still alive

A          E
 If it’s a highway
     D              A
I am trying just to drive
     D              A
I am trying just to drive
     E              A    E
Stay awake and stay alive
F#m        A
 If it’s a highway
       D                A
I want you there at the side
       D                A
I want you there at the side
        E               A E D A
 Still awake and still alive

[Otro]
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F#m A D A
D A E A


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