Chords for Drive-By Truckers - What It Means (Official Lyric Video)

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He was running down the street when they shot him in his tracks
[G] About the only thing that greeted Ponce, he ain't coming back
There [D] won't be any tracks of the air and it won't be clear
[G] There's just two sides calling names out of anger, out [D] of fear
And if you say it wasn't racial when they shot him in his tracks
[G] Well I guess that means [D] that you ain't black, [G] it means that you [D] ain't black
I mean Barack Obama won, and you can choose where to eat
But [G] you don't see too many [D] white [G] kids lying bleeding on the [D] street _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ In some town in Missouri, but it could be anywhere
[G] It could be right [D] here on Root Street, the fact it's happened here
And it happened where you're sitting, wherever that might be
And [G] it happened [D] last week, and [G] it'll happen [D] again next week
And when they turned him over they were surprised there was no gun
I mean [G] he must have done [D] something or [G] else why would he [D] have run?
And they'll spin it for the anchors on the television screen
So [G] we can't shrug and let it happen without asking what it [D] means
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[D] I guess there was protesting and some looting in some stores
[G] And someone [D] was reminded they ain't called colored folks no more
I mean we tried to be politically correct and we called names
But what's [G] the point of post [D]-racial when [G] old prejudices [D] remain?
And that guy who killed that kid down in Florida standing around
Is free [G] to beat up on [D] his girlfriend and wave a brand new gun around
While some kid is dead and buried and laying in the ground [G] with a pocket [D] full of skittles _ _
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Astrophysics _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ at our fingertips, we're standing at the summit
[G] And some man with a joystick lands a [G] rocket on a comet
[D] We're living in an age where limitations are forgotten
The outer [G] edges move and dazzle us but the [D] core is something rotten
And we're standing on the precipice of prejudice and fear
We trust science [Gm] just as long as it tells us what we [D] want to hear
We want our truths all fair and balanced as long as our notions lie within it
[G] There's no sunlight in our asses and our heads are stuck up in it
[D] And our heroes may be rapists who watch us while we dream
[G] But don't look to [D] me for answers cause we [D] don't know what it means
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