Tom: C
A5 C5
I skipped class and took the number five bus
D5 A5
All the way east, just to see where it ends
A5 C5
Smoked a cigarette at Udall Station
D5 A5
Got back on the bus again
A5 C5 D5
We've been this way since you met me
A5
Hearts not heavy, but empty
A5 C5 D5 A5
And once a song could raise me up, but now there's nothing, so I stumbled home a broken man
A5 N.C.
With blood on my hands, dead on my feet
Shot down where I stand
Am C
With blood on my hands, dead on my feet
Dm Am
Shot where I stand
[Chrous]
C G Am F
Freedom is beautiful and terrible, it's nothing soft and sweet
C G Am F
It's used bullets on the sidewalk, fires across the street
C G Am F
It's you moving in with your new boyfriend in Oakland
C G Am F
It's a pack of wild dogs on a road without a street lamp
C G
It's roaches in the bathroom, mice in the kitchen
Am F
And no one left to blame for the way I've been living
C G
It's mice in the kitchen, roaches in the bathroom
Am N.C.
And no one left to blame
[Break]
A5 C5 D5 G5 (x2)
[Verse 2]
A5 C5
I woke up late and missed class again
D5 A5
And so I brewed a pot of coffee and went back to bed
A5 C5
Snatch some bread selling junk from the back of the shed
D5 A5
Hop the fence, because the front's being watched by the feds
A5 C5 D5 A5
We've been this way since we've been alive, reckless and shy
A5 C5
So I set fire to the house and took off running
D5 A5
I hope that you won't mind
A5 N.C.
I burned down the house to get myself out of this hell alive
Am C
I burned down the house to get myself out
Dm Am
I hope you don't mind
[Chorus]
C G Am F
Freedom is nothing soft and sweet, it's beautiful and terrible
C G Am F
It's admitting everything that I don't want anyone to know
C G Am F
It's telling people that I love I stole from them when they weren't looking
C G Am F
It's fucking up so many times that they won't pick up when I call them
C G
It's watching people die because they got back in it
Am F
And knowing that I don't have any say in it
C G Am N.C.
It's watching people die, and knowing I don't get any say
