Chords for Drive-By Truckers - What It Means (Official Live Clip)

[D] This is a brand new song.
It's gonna be on our new record that's about to come out.
The song's called What It Means.
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_ _ _ [D] _ In some town in Missouri, but it could be anywhere.
Could be right here on Ruth Street.
Facts happen here.
And it happened where you're sitting, wherever that might be.
And [G] it happened [D] last weekend.
It'll happen again next week.
And when they turned them up, they were surprised there was no gun.
Maybe he must have done something, or else why would he have run?
So they're spinning for the anchors on the television screen.
They [G] can't wag their [D] fingers without asking what it means.
What it means.
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_ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ So I guess there was protesting and some looting in some stores.
And someone was reminded that he ain't calling colored folks no more.
He tried to be politically correct when he called names.
What's the point of post-racial when no prejudice is met?
And that guy who killed that kid, pinned the heart to standing ground.
Screaming, [G] beat up on [Bm] his girlfriend [D] and waving [G] a brand new gun [D] around.
While some kid was dead and buried.
And laying in the ground [G] with a pocket full [D] of [G] skittles.
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our fingertips were standing at the summit.
[G] Yes, a man with joystick lens, rocket on [D] the top.
We're living in an age where limitations aren't forgotten.
The [G] outer edges move and dance with us, but the core of something rotten.
[D] So we're standing at the precipice with prejudice and fear.
We [G] chose science just as long as it tells us [D] what we want to hear.
We want our truth, our fair and found, long as our nose is not within it.
There's no [G] sunlight and it rests in our heads and stuck up in.
[D] And our heroes lay deranged, we watch while we dream.
[G] We don't love the painful answers, count down [D] what it means.
What it means.
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