Devil In My Bloodstream

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We wiped out all the buffalo around
                      Bm
 the turn of the last century
            G                      
And so it's factories and sawgrass,
 wheat fields and asphalt laid in 
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front of me
                         D     
The midwest feels like a hollow 
place that we filled with love and 
 Bm
industry
          G
And we're staring at the frozen 
ground in Goodwill suits
A
Silent as the pastor reads the 
eulogy
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Well I, I wanted to see just a 
  Bm     A      G
little bit of everything
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Let me be

[Chorus]
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Two blackbirds on a highway sign 
               Bm                A
are laughing at me at four in the 
morning
                         D      G
They played the war drum out of time
           Bm                  
So I'm not sure where I've been 
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marching
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I want to be strong, but it's not 
G
easy anymore
               D    A  G
I'm hoping I'm wrong

[Verse]
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It's sixteen hours straight to home
                         Bm
 from the heart of north Missouri
         G
And so I search through my 
great-grandpa's memoirs
                     A
For the devil in my bloodstream
                       D         
Depression grabbed his throat and 
                            Bm
choked the life out of him slowly
           G
I got the same blood coursing 
through my veins
                  A
It'll come for me eventually

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I bet I'd be a fucking coward

                         Bm
I bet I'd never have the guts for 
war
       G
Cause I can't spend another month 
away from here
       A
These frantic rest stop phone calls 
don't get answered anymore
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But I, I wanted to know if I could 
Bm     A    G
please come home
            A
So let me know

[Chorus]
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I know how it feels to be at war 
with a world that never loved me
  D                      A      G
I know how it feels to be at war 
with a world that never loved me

**-First Prechorus
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