[Intro: ]Em - D - Am - G 


Verse 1: 

Em             D 
       Mr.Dali Lamas 

Am                          G 
  Another sister's shootin' heroin tomorrow 

Em            D 
  Amputees in Freetown 

         Am 
Sierra Leone's 

    G 
The church wasn't honest 
Em                  D 
  The state put the youth in a harness 

Am         G 
  Creatin' hostility among us 

Em             D 
  Teacher said no college 

Am                      G                         Em 
  Still the kid's gotta get a check with a couple commas 

             D 
People wanna bomb us 

Am                  G                    Em 
  More people gotta scatter and run from us 
                    D                   Am          G - D/F# 

You can blame it on Zeus and Apollo and Adonis 


Chorus - Play 2x's 

                Em 
But what you've done here 

   D                      Am                 G 
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target 

                Em 
And it won't be long before 

       D                Am           G 
You're pulling yourself away 

Verse 2: 
          Em                   D 
I've been knowing her for years 

          Am                  G 
I've been seeing her for years 

        Em              D 
She got dark, dark wavy hair 

       Am                        G 
With a voice like she just don't care 

          Em                  D 
She got a skirt with a halter top 

            Am                   G 
She's got a dad who never gave a f*** 

             Em                     D 
She drinks a beer with her mom 'til dawn 

                Am             G 
She got knocked up in a pickup truck 

            Em                       D 
But she got engaged when she was nineteen 

        Am                    G 
To this dude who was acting insane 

        Em               D 
Had a .45 that he always cleaned 

         Am              G 
Said one day one day one too many days 

        Em                  D 
Now she ducked and she ran away 

            Am                      G 
Never to be heard from, never to be seen 

            Em             D 
I check the cover of a magazine 

         Am                  G    -    D/F# 
I'm just wondering how, just wondering 

Chorus - Play 2x's 

                Em 
But what you've done here 

   D                      Am                 G 
Is put yourself between a bullet and a target 

                Em 
And it won't be long before 

       D                Am           G 
You're pulling yourself away