Ramshackle Glory - From here to utopia

^Dmwell i'm afraid that the circles i've been d^Arinking myself aren't big enough for the vowels that ^Dmi try to fit ^Cinside of ^Athem ^Dmwhen i was young i drank too much and i'd be l^Aying if i said i didn't feel so goddamn young tonight ^Dm maybe too ^Cyoung to ask what's on my ^Amind ^A#like if freedom means do^Dming what you want well ^Adon't you gotta want ^Dmsomething ^A#and won't you tell me that we w^Dmant something more than just more b^Aeer

^Dmwell i've been listening to minor t^Ahreat records all day and shit if i do not know every word ^Dmi sing ^Calong as i tie ^Aoff ^Dmand ian screams he's “out of step” as i ^Athrow the cotton into the spoon draw up into the syringe ^Dmi'll know just what he ^Cmeans until i hit a ^Avein ^A#but after that i w^Dmon't have to bother with k^Anowing who i am for a while at l^Dmeast ^A#in a moment the whole w^Dmorld is gonna melt around me ^Aand i'll swear i don't miss it as a i lie to you tonight ^Fbecause i'm a^Afraid to look the ^Dmworld in the ^A#eye ^Fif nothing's ^Agonna change well t^Dmhen i'd rather di^A#e ^Fand i'm too unemployed to ^Aorganize a union i'm ^Dmtoo intoxicated ^A#to tear down a building ^Fi'm too hopeless to ^Alook for a solution i'm ^Dmafraid that if i found one i'd ^A#be out of excuses for the w^Fay i waste away in the ^Agutters that i chose like ^Dmfashion accessories to go ^A#with my dirty clothes i ^Fhaven't bathed in months but you k^Anow it's not because i've been ^Dmfighting bourgeois morals i'm just l^A#azy and i'm young

^Dmi've seen the best minds of my gener^Aation dying drunk or high from the rooftops to the parking lots ^Dmstomped to death in w^Cest philadelphian s^Aquats ^Dmthey've got me waiting on a day when we can ^Asay “fuck the police ” with a little bit of integrity ^Dmwhen it will mean “i've g^Cot your back if you've got mi^Ane ” ^A#give me a scene where i^Dm believe in more than ^Abad hair cuts gu^Dmilt and misery ^A#i don't know where i fit between the v^Dmegans and the nihilists ^Athat might be the first thing i've said that wasn't a lie tonight ^Fbecause there's gotta be ^Asomething more than lying ^Dmin the front yar^A#d naked screaming at the constellations ^Fi want something more than an ^Aapology to say when i ^Dmlook the world in the ^A#eye i'll tell you man my^F friend william came to me with a ^Amessage of hope it wen^Dmt “fuck you and everything t^A#hat you think you know if ^Fyou don't step outside the ^Athings that you believe they're gonna kill you ” ^{Dm A#} he said “n^Fo one's gonna stop you from dying young and ^Amiserable and right ^Dm but if you want something ^A#better you gotta put that shit aside ” ^Fi thought about how for ^Athousands of years there ^Dmhave been people wh^A#o told us that things can't go on like this ^Ffrom jesus chris to the ^Adiggers from malthus to ^Dmzerzan from karl marx to^A# huey newton but the shit goes ^Fon and on and ^Aon and on and ^Dmon and on and ^A#on and on

^Cnow i'm not saying that w^A#e can't change the world because ^Feverybody ^Cdoes at least a ^Dmlittle bit of t^A#hat but^Dm i won't shit ^Amyself the w^A#ay i'm living is a tempe^Fr tantrum and i^D need something else n^Aeed something else ne^A#ed something e^Clse to stay alive

^A#and on the night that i p^Dmlay my last show i'll be^A singing so loud that my heart e^Dmxplodes ^A#and i'll be singing and i'^Dmll be singing we are fre^Ae ^A#oh but won't y^Dmou promise me that we wo^An't ever forget what the ^Dmmeans ^A#i know it's hard to g^Dmive a shit sometimes b^Aut promise me we'll always try ^A#because i don't wanna h^Dmate you and i don't wanna ha^Ate me ^A#and i don't w^Dmanna have to hate e^Averything anymore