Ramshackle Glory

From Here Till Utopia (song For The Desperate)(Chords)

Ramshackle Glory

Key: Am

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Intro:  Am E Am G E  (2x) 


Am                                          E 
well, i?m afraid that the circles i?ve been drinking myself 
                                      Am           G         E 
aren?t big enough for the vowels that i try to fit inside of them. 
Am 
when i was young, i drank too much, 
            E                                                     Am 
and i?d be lying if i said i didn?t feel so goddamn young tonight; 
          G                         E 
maybe too young to ask what?s on my mind. 
F                      Am 
like: if freedom means doing what you want (well), 
E                    Am 
don?t you gotta want something? 
F                             Am                                 E 
and won?t you tell me that we want something more than just more beer? 

and my friends, if that ain?t true, won?t you lie to me tonight? 
Am                                 E 
well, i?ve been listening to minor threat records all day, 

and shit if i do not know every word. 
Am     G              E 
i sing along as i tie off. 
Am                                      E 
and ian screams he?s ?out of step? as i throw the cotton into the spoon, draw up into  
the syringe. 
Am                     G                   E 
i?ll know just what he means until i hit a vein. 
F                Am                        E                   
     Am 
but after that i won?t have to bother with knowing who i am, for a while at least. 
F                     Am 
in a moment the whole world is gonna melt around me, 
E 
and i?ll swear i don?t miss it as a i lie to you tonight. 
C            E                 Am           F 
because i?m afraid to look the world in the eye. 
C            E                  Am               F 
if nothing?s gonna change, well, then i?d rather die. 
C                         E 
and i?m too unemployed to organize a union; 
    Am              F 
i?m too intoxicated to tear down a building. 
C                   E 
i?m too hopeless to look for a solution; 
    Am 
i?m afraid that if i found one, 
    F                         C 
i?d be out of excuses for the way i waste away 
       E                         Am                        F 
in the gutters that i chose like fashion accessories to go with my dirty clothes. 
  C                                 E                              Am 
i haven?t bathed in months, but you know it?s not because i?ve been fighting bourgeois morals: 
          F 
i?m just lazy and i?m young. 

Am                                  E 
i?ve seen the best minds of my generation dying drunk or high from the rooftops to the  
parking lots, 
Am                   G                  E 
stomped to death in west philadelphian squats. 
Am                                          E 
they?ve got me waiting on a day when we can say ?fuck the police!? with a little bit of integrity, 
Am                       G                            E 
when it will mean: ?i?ve got your back if you?ve got mine!? 
F                     Am                    E                  
         Am 
give me a scene where i believe in more than bad hair cuts, guilt, and misery. 
F                                    Am 
i don?t know where i fit between the vegans and the nihilists. 
E 
that might be the first thing i?ve said that wasn?t a lie tonight. 
       
                         F 
because there?s gotta be something more than lying in the front yard, naked, screaming  
at the constellations. 
C                             E                     Am         
            F 
i want something more than an apology to say when i look the world in the eye. 
                    C                                 E 
i?ll tell you, man, my friend william came to me with a message of hope. 
      Am                          F 
it went: ?fuck you and everything that you think you know. 
   C                          E                                      
Am         F 
if you don?t step outside the things that you believe they?re gonna kill you.? 
          C                            E                               Am 
he said: ?no one?s gonna stop you from dying young, and miserable, and right, 
                          F 
but if you want something better, you gotta put that shit aside.? 
C                       E                        Am            
                             F 
i thought about how for thousands of years there have been people who told us that  
things can?t go on like this: 
C                       E 
from jesus chris to the diggers, 
                Am 
from malthus to zerzan, 
                 F 
from karl marx to huey newton, 
                  C             E             Am            F 
but the shit goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on x 3? 


G                        F 
now, i?m not saying that we can?t change the world, 
        C         E               Am             F 
because everybody does at least a little bit of that. 
C            E           Am                      F 
but i won?t shit myself: the way i?m living is a temper tantrum 
                
             F 
and i need something else, need something else, need something else to stay alive. 

C E Am F 
(ohohoh.) 
F                       Am                      E              
             Am 
and on the night that i play my last show, i?ll be singing so loud that my heart explodes. 
F                        Am                      E 
and i?ll be singing, and i?ll be singing: we are free! 
F            Am                      E                        Am 
oh, but won?t you promise me that we won?t ever forget what the means? 
F                   Am                    E 
i know it?s hard to give a shit sometimes, but promise me we?ll always try. 
F                     Am                          E 
because i don?t wanna hate you, and i don?t wanna hate me, 
F           Am                 E 
and i don?t wanna have to hate everything anymore. 


	        

Written by Ramshackle Glory

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