The Strums: by the Dodos
Intro:(C, F, Am, Dm)x2
C F
The image on the board
Am Dm
Selling things we can't afford
C F
But we're still buying up in a 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 Am
When what comes next on the market should
Bb C
But we go on because its understood
Dm Am
But you can only hope, when they say that they want you
Dm Am G
Yeah, they'll say that they want you, when they don't
C F
It's like a chandelier
Am Dm
It's like a fountain head
C F
The strings are all there
Am Dm
A chain link fence to convince you
C F
That you're never aware
Am Dm
For things that which you spare
C F Am Dm
Are at cause they don't care about you
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G
Don't care of what you've done
C Am
You're fooled by everyone
G C Dm
But soon you'll go get your daddy's gun
G
And go out to recollect
C Am
From all the guards that you put in debt
Bb
It's time you learn that you cannot change (can't hide shame/change)
C
But you forget
Dm Am
But you will always think when they say that they want you,
Dm Am G
When they say that they want you, 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
C F Am Dm
They're only left with what they beg, beg, beg
C F
So children kill your teachers
Am Dm
Kill your parents, then kill your preachers
C F
Because you know, that they'll only will doubt you
Am Dm
When they start to lose their 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 C
Cause they didn't get to find out what you sought
