The Strums

Intro:(C, F, Am, Dm)x2

C                F
The image on the board
        Am               Dm
Selling things we can't afford
          C                   
But we're still buying up in a 
 F
frenzy
          Am                    Dm
Cause our hearts just yearn for more
        G
Is this sin, all he want?
   C            Am
Is offerings we got?
    G              C          Dm
But soon you'll be overrating eyes
   G
Oh people they can't be good
                C                  
When what comes next on the market 
Am
should
          Bb                       
But we go on because its understood
      C

                 Dm                
But you can only hope, when they 
            Am
say that they want you
Dm                          Am   
Yeah, they'll say that they want 
               G
you, when they don't

            C              F
It's like a chandelier
            Am             Dm
It's like a fountain head
                    C              
The strings are all there
 F

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             Am                   Dm
A chain link fence to convince you
                  C                F
That you're never aware
                          Am       
For things that which you spare
         Dm

             C          F         
Are at cause they don't care about
   Am            Dm
 you

     G
Don't care of what you've done
       C              Am
You're fooled by everyone
    G              C              
But soon you'll go get your 
  Dm
daddy's gun
    G
And go out to recollect
             C                     
From all the guards that you put in
 Am
 debt
             Bb
It's time you learn that you cannot 
change (can't hide shame/change)
           C
But you forget

                    Dm             
But you will always think when they
               Am
 say that they want you,
Dm                      Am       
When they say that they want you,
             G
 that they don't

(C, F, Am, Dm)x2 (G, C, Am)x3 (Bb, 
C)

F                           Bb
You wait but somedays never come
                         Gm
Your prophesying here is done
                               C
You're only left with what you beg

F                              Bb
In toward you can, begone your way
                             Gm
The others wait till they're okay
They're only left with what they 
C    F    Am   Dm
beg, beg, beg

   C                  F
So children kill your teachers
          Am                      
Kill your parents, then kill your 
Dm
preachers
            C                      
Because you know, that they'll only
      F
 will doubt you
          Am                 
When they start to lose their 
 Dm
features
    G
Its okay that there gone
          C               Am
Torturing you is all they want
           Bb
And lesson learned, now lesson 
taught
         Bb
You just know what they forgot
           Bb                    
Cause they didn't get to find out 
          C
what you sought