Desperate State Chords by Excessive Force

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[E] _ _ _ [F] _ [E] _ I'm just a Chicago club driver.
_ I prefer the [N] tables, because you run into a range of crowded people in the neighborhood.
But we got guys out here that's good at memorizing by television, drugs, superficial things. _
They're [E] fun.
_ A lot of kids who start looking at the [G] future as really a bright point in their life.
We have a legal outlaw _ [Em] that was linked itself to alcohol and drug abuse.
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_ _ _ [E] Our country is self-destructing from the damage.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [G] Something [N] is not dead at all.
It's got to come back.
Who gives a fuck about what's happening overseas at this point in time?
I'm not worried about a Russian soldier _ walking down State Street any time in the very near future.
I am worried about my daughter or son or my girlfriend _ walking out, getting hit over the head for $10 at the [B] most.
[E] I'm addressing the issue of guys going out [Bm] there, sticking you and [Dm] me up to get our money, so we [B] can pay for your drug fix.
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[E] That's for state.
_ That's for state of affairs. _
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_ I [F] _ [E] _ [G] mean, we're [A] a [E] [Eb] materialistic society that _ we've reached a level of dementia in [Bm] returns.
_ _ [D] Nobody wins in this [N] situation.
There are no winners.
It's only people suffering as usual, the little guys.
_ _ People don't even smile.
You know, you walk down the street and you look at these couples.
They don't embrace each other anymore.
_ Everyone's living in perpetual state of fear.
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Something [E] has to be done.
Our country [D] is self-destructing from the damage.
In two [B] or three years, it's going to be mine by then.
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[E] _ _ [F] I'm [E] _ _ _ [F] _
[E] _ _ _ [F] _ [E] _ [G] just [A] a Chicago [N] cab driver.
I have a feeling that the elected people up there represent our needs and aspirations.
They don't seem to be doing a damn good job. _ _ _
Bush, former head of the CIA, you know, a guy like him,
don't put the man under the carpet.
He's like Big Brother, kind of pushes the egg around.
_ [Eb] _ At least Clinton can have [Bbm] some of [B] the meager means.
He can relate to the common guy.
He knows what we're going through.
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That's for state.
_ [F] [E] That's for state of affairs. _
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[E] That's for state.
[F] _ [E] That's for state of affairs.
I worry about that.
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There is no [N] perfect system.
_ No such thing as a perfect system, but there certainly can be a more equitable one, _
where an average worker can make a decent living, _
support his family, get a good education, _ adequate health,
and some hope for the future.
_ _ It's not hopeless. _ _
We're not far.
That far is not sitting [Bm] rock.
We have the technology and the right now to self [E]-destruct. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ [F] _ [E] [G] We _ [A] _
[E] _ _ [F] _ [E] have _ _ _
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[N] these people that elected these politicians that are pointing to the sky,
that are pointing to the sky.
They're all of the same _ narrow _ ideology,
_ and they're trying to promote their values and beauty.
It doesn't seem difficult to see that that's how it's going to work.
_ We'll [Gm] be at each other's throats.
_ _ _ I [E] think that Rodney King meeting just brought it all up.
_ _ [Abm] No peace without justice. _
I have a feeling that [Em] [Bm] we're walking on thin ice right now.
[Dm] _ _ There [N] has to be a perfect value [E] system.
_ _ A rather apt one for the [Bb] meeting of the minds of the future.
_ It's up to you.
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[E] _ _ _ [F] [E] That's for state of affairs.
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[E] That's for state.
_ [F] [E] That's for state of affairs.
I worry about that.
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[E] That's for state.
_ [F] [E] That's for state of affairs. _
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[E] _ _ _ for state of affairs.
I worry about that.
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[E] That's for state.
_ [F] [E] That's for state of affairs.
Mm.
Let me take my mask off.
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[E] That's for state.
_ [F] [E] That's for state of affairs.
[F] I worry about that.
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