Held Up By The Wires Cifras

[Intro]
Em              G              Am
Bought the old farmland for a song
Am                C       Dm
Sold it for many reasons, too many of them wrong
Dm         G            C
Horseshoe bets and the women that came along
Am              Em         Am
Blind-drunk on their demon rum
 
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 1]
Em           G                Am
Kickin' the pedals, tryin' to outrun the dogs
     Am          C            Dm
With no running start to jump over the fire
Dm          G                 C          Am
Doin' headstands atop of the rotten telephone poles
Am       Em        Am
All held up by the wires
 
[Verse 2]
Em              G              Am
Is knowledge a product of his loneliness
Am     C            Dm
A mad cousin to his holiness
Dm          G         C            Am
Maniacs in cages and patriots and sages
   Am      Em             Am
A cruel untelling of the books
 
[Chorus]
     C    E   Am
But I'll not give
G  Am            E
Myself, to the ground
   C    E    Am  G
I kill more than I
Am   E   G  Am
Live so slowly
Am   E   G  Am
Live so slowly
 
[Instrumental]
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C Am Em
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[Verse 3]
Em             G     Am
Heard a great force rapin' the land
Am            C             Dm
Like General Kelly and his ghost-yellow man
Dm             G          C
Marching like Sherman in reverse
Am            Am            Em                          Am
Stealing the fire from the building, the city from the curse
 
[Verse 4]
Em      G           Am
Master dies by his own hired hand
Am          C               Dm
Half a day later, Father's hanging fromt he steeple
Dm                 G               C         Am
Strongest body of thieves to ever scourge a land
    Am   Em        Am
To ever pillage a people
 
[Chorus]
     C    E   Am
But I'll not give
G  Am            E
Myself, to the ground
   C    E    Am  G
I kill more than I
Am   E   G  Am
Live so slowly
Am   E   G  Dm
Live so slowly
 
[Bridge]
            F   C
Allow this night to go on
        F
Let it roll along
               C
The sun never rise
Dm
Oh, oh, oh
            Am
Allow this life to go on
        F
Let it roll along
               C   Cmaj9 Cmaj7
The sun never rise
 
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Am C Dm
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[Verse 5]
Em       G             Am
Say one thing and then do another
Am      C            Dm
Bunker down in your alsatian den
Dm            G             C        Am
We ain't got room for your politics here
Am                 Em               Am
Politicians make a bad name for the con-man
 
[Verse 6]
     Em    G         Am
And water felt like burning metal
Am            C    Dm
Set off by a dying sun
         Dm          G           C              Am
And the women, they circle like covered wagons crying
       Am         Em                     Am
Their loved ones back from where they've      gone
 
[Chorus]
     C    E   Am
And I'll not give
G  Am            E
Myself, to the ground
          C    E    Am  G
'Cause I kill more than I
 
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