Verse 1:
G C
Oh give me a home where we aren?t so alone
G D
Where the black and the white children play
G C
Where seldom is heard an offhand racial slur
G D G
And my Muslim sisters feel safe
G
Home of the estranged
D7
Where the white and the black children play
G C
Some peace is preferred, let the county lines blur
G D G
And the preachers hold hands with the gays
Verse 2:
G C
Corporate motives are pure, politicians stay free
G D
Of corruption and work to better our lives
G C
Liberals beggin for change, politely from the stage
G D G
The vice president nods and he smiles
G C
The natives of our land, we so brutally banned
G D
From the beauty they were born into first
G C
It?s been 200 years, since that damn trail of tears
G D G
Yet we still hate them for loving the earth
G
Home of the estranged
D7
Human life is not a resource to trade
G C
It is not so absurd, to hear out the perturbed
G D G
We all see the same things different ways
Verse 3:
G C
How often at night, stumbling bodega bright
G D
Neon lights burn like synthetic stars
G C
Bums ponder below, spare a quarter or so?
G D G
Does their wisdom exceed that of ours?
G C
Pick a blue lotus flower from this dear land of ours
G D
If it helps you start to hear people cry
G C
On a child to annoint, or you can lace it in your joint
G D G
I wish everyone felt just as high
G
Home of the estranged
D7
Where no one has to wake up afraid
G C
There?s a love we could learn, that would cover the world
G D G
I believe it?ll happen someday
Outro
G C Cm
There?s a love we could learn, that would cover the world
G D C G
I believe it?ll happen someday