From Here To Utopia

Intro:

Dm A Dm C A
Dm A Dm C A

Dm                             
well i'm afraid that the circles 
             A
i've been drinking myself
aren't big enough for the vowels 
     Dm           C         A
that i try to fit inside of them
Dm
when i was young i drank too much
            A                      
and i'd be lying if i said i didn't
                               Dm
 feel so goddamn young tonight
          C                        
maybe too young to ask what's on my
 A
 mind
A#                      Dm
like if freedom means doing what you
 want well
A                    Dm
don't you gotta want something
A#                             Dm
and won't you tell me that we 
                                 A
want something more than just more 
beer

and my friends if that ain't true 
won't you lie to me tonight Oh yeah

(Fast part) Am G E F x3, strum Am 
once then muted strumming

Dm                              
well i've been listening to minor 
   A
threat records all day

and shit if i do not know every word
Dm     C              A
i sing along as i tie off
Dm                                
and ian screams he's “out of step”
      A
 as i throw the cotton into the 
spoon draw up into
the syringe
Dm                     C         
i'll know just what he means 
          A
until i hit a vein
A#                Dm        
but after that i won't have to 
                A                  
bother with knowing who i am for a 
             Dm
while at least
A#                     Dm
in a moment the whole world is gonna
 melt around me
A
and i'll swear i don't miss it as a 
i lie to you tonight
F            A                 
because i'm afraid to look the 
Dm           A#
world in the eye
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F            A                  
if nothing's gonna change well 
Dm               A#
then i'd rather die
F                         A
and i'm too unemployed to organize a
 union
    Dm              A#
i'm too intoxicated to tear down a 
building
F                   A
i'm too hopeless to look for a 
solution
    Dm
i'm afraid that if i found one
    A#                         F
i'd be out of excuses for the way i 
waste away
       A                         
in the gutters that i chose like 
Dm                        A#
fashion accessories to go with my 
dirty clothes
  F                                
i haven't bathed in months but you 
 A                             
know it's not because i've been 
 Dm
fighting bourgeois morals
          A#
i'm just lazy and i'm young

Dm                           
i've seen the best minds of my 
       A
generation dying drunk or high from 
the rooftops to the
parking lots
Dm                   C
stomped to death in west 
                  A
philadelphian squats
Dm                                
they've got me waiting on a day 
          A
when we can say “fuck the police ” 
with a little bit of integrity
Dm                       C       
when it will mean “i've got your 
                     A
back if you've got mine ”
A#                     Dm        
give me a scene where i believe 
            A               Dm
in more than bad hair cuts guilt and
 misery
A#                                
i don't know where i fit between 
    Dm
the vegans and the nihilists
A
that might be the first thing i've 
said that wasn't a lie tonight
F                        A       
because there's gotta be 
                  Dm            
something more than lying in the 
  A#
front yard naked screaming
at the constellations
F                           
i want something more than an 
  A                     Dm        
apology to say when i look the 
            A#
world in the eye
                    F              
i'll tell you man my friend william
                   A
 came to me with a message of hope
      Dm                        
it went “fuck you and everything 
  A#
that you think you know
   F                          A   
if you don't step outside the 
things that you believe they're 
                     Dm      A#
gonna kill you ”
          F                     
he said “no one's gonna stop you 
                      A            
from dying young and miserable and 
                   Dm
right
                          A#
but if you want something better you
 gotta put that shit aside ”
F                       A        
i thought about how for thousands
                Dm                 
 of years there have been people 
A#
who told us that
things can't go on like this
F                       A
from jesus chris to the diggers
                Dm
from malthus to zerzan
                 A#
from karl marx to huey newton
                  F             A 
but the shit goes on and on and on
            Dm            A#
 and on and on and on and on and on


C                        A#
now i'm not saying that we can't 
change the world
        F         C               
because everybody does at least a 
Dm             A#
little bit of that
   Dm            A           A#  
but i won't shit myself the way 
                    F
i'm living is a temper tantrum
     D                     A 
and i need something else need 
                   A#            C
something else need something else 
to stay alive


 Jam: F  A  Dm  A#  F  A  Dm  C  A# 
 A  F  G


A#                       Dm      
and on the night that i play my 
                A                
last show i'll be singing so loud 
               Dm
that my heart explodes
A#                        Dm 
and i'll be singing and i'll be 
                     A
singing we are free
A#            Dm                 
oh but won't you promise me that 
     A                        Dm
we won't ever forget what the means
A#                   Dm      
i know it's hard to give a shit 
              A
sometimes but promise me we'll 
always try
A#                     Dm        
because i don't wanna hate you 
                  A
and i don't wanna hate me
A#           Dm             
and i don't wanna have to hate 
    A
everything anymore