Thousand Yard Stare

BPM: 174 

Intro 
C  Em  Am 
C  Am Am7 Am  G  Fadd9  C 
C  C  G  Gadd11 G G 



[Verso 1]
 
C         Em             Am       C 
You had a growth in your right ear, 
    Am      Am7 Am    C 
And I had a murmuring heart, 
            F                        C 
And all our healthy companions got a free ticket out, 
          C                       G   Gadd11 G 
While the country they left fell apart, 
        C        Em       Am 
Now the only way over the ocean, 
C         Am                     C 
Is in the belly of a camouflaged plane, 
    Fmaj7                     C 
And freedom is offered to the ones who enlist, 
      C                    G  Gadd11 G 
Until only the prisoners remain. 
 


[Verso 2]
 
       C           Em      Am 
And we wouldn't be able to leave, 
C        Am            Am7 Am   C 
 Even if our passports hadn't expired, 
      F                       C 
So we sit in our bedrooms and talk on our tapped phones, 
    C                     G   Gadd11 G 
And know our apartment is wired, 
        C     Em             Am 
And the TV distracts us with light shows, 
C          Am           Am7 Am   C 
Telling us everything's going as planned, 
            Fmaj7                  C 
But there's something awry out the corner of our eye, 
       C               G  Gadd11 G 
We can no longer comprehend. 
 


[Refrão]
 
          C                       G 
There's a chain from your hand to mine, 
                Am                    Fm 
And I can't let go of it, I can't let go of it, 
        C                    G 
We were saved from the front lines, 
                Am                     Fm           C 
Got nothing to show for it, nothing to show for it . .. 
 


[Verso 3]
 
      C           Em       Am       C 
So we watch the receding horizon, 
          Am      Am7 Am        C 
'Til we develop a thousand yard stare, 
             F                        C 
And with our old tape recorders we pretend to cross borders, 
    C                               G   Gadd11 G 
And dream that we're breathing free air, 
           C     Em          Am       C 
But we can only imagine that landscape, 
        Am                      C 
Gaze at pictures now faded with age, 
             Fmaj7                    C 
The greatest country on earth was our prison since birth, 
    C                      G   Gadd11 G 
Its shores an invulnerable cage. 
 


[Refrão]
 
          C                       G 
There's a chain from your hand to mine, 
                Am                    Fm 
And I can't let go of it, I can't let go of it, 
        C                    G 
We were saved from the front lines, 
                Am                     Fm           C 
Got nothing to show for it, nothing to show for it . .. 
 

Interlude 
C  G     Am   Fm 
    Oooh oooh . . . 



[Ponte]
 
        C             G 
Burn it down, burn it down, 
        Am                   Fm 
There's nothing here I wanna save, 
           C                G 
Leave this town, leave this town, 
  Am                       Fm 
Before you're just another slave, 
      C            G 
Turn around, turn around, 
        Am                  Fm 
They're already digging our graves, 
       C              G 
In the ground, in the ground, 
      Am               Fm 
We're too close now to turn away. 
 

Outro 
          C          Em           Am 
There's a chain from your hand to mine, 
    C           Am        C           Am 
And I can't let go of it, I can't let go of it, 
        C     Em             Am 
We were saved from the front lines, 
    C          Fmaj7                   Fm 
Got nothing to show for it, nothing to show for it . ., 
      C 
Yeah, yeah.