Chords for Elvis Costello And The Roots - TRIPWIRE

_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ Just [E]
because you [C#m] don't speak the language [F#m] doesn't mean that you [B] can't understand.
_ [E] _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ The [E] twist in the [C#m] script of an insult _ [F#m] _
scrawled on the [B] back of your hand.
Torn [E] from the [C#m] pages of scripture, _ [F#m] _
sprayed on the [B] wall in the phrase of a [Em] flag. _
Kisses [C#m] forbidden on lips, _ [F#m] and all of your [B] fine clothes worn into [E] rags. _
Tripline, [C#m] _ _ tripline, [A] _ _
tripline, [G#m] _ _ [B] tripline.
[E] There's a tripline, [C#m] _ _ tripline, [A] _ _
tripline, [B] _ _ tripline.
[E] Don't open the [C#m] door, cause they're coming.
_ [A] Don't open the [B] door, cause they're here.
_ [E] Above there's an [C#m] ominous humming, _ [A] below there's a [B] murmuring prayer.
_ [E] _
Torn from the [C#m] pages of scandal, _ [A] sprayed on the [B] wall in the phrase of a [E] flag.
Kisses [C#m] forbidden on lips, _ [A] and all of your [B] fine clothes blown into [E] rags. _
Tripline, [C#m] _ _ tripline, [A] _ _
tripline, [B] _ tripline.
[E] There's a tripline, [C#m] _ _ tripline, [A] _ _
[F#m] tripline, [B] _ _ tripline.
[E] There's a cross and a line and a circus and a line.
There's a voice that you might overhear.
_ There's a lens making good picture perfect.
_ They say they have nothing to fear. _ _
Torn from the [C#m] pages of pamphlets, [A] thrown in the [B] air like confetti in [E] church.
Far, far away [C#m] there's a target, [A] and the sound of an [B] army just starting to march.
[E] _ _
Tripline, [C#m] _ _ tripline, [A] _ _
tripline, [B] _ _ tripline.
[E] There's a tripline, [C#m] _ _ tripline, [A] _ _
tripline, [G#m] _ [B] _ tripline.
[E] Just because I [C#m] don't read the language, _ [F#m] doesn't mean that I'm blind [B] to the threat.
[E] Though I thought there was more [C#m] to forgiveness [F#m] than all we [B] conveniently forget.
_ [E] _
Torn from the [C#m] pages of history, _ [A] _
repeated [B] again and again and again.
[E] You're either [C#] for or against [C#m] us, [A] and that is [B] how the hatred [E] begins. _
Tripline, [C#m] _ tripline, _ [A] _ _
tripline, [B] _ _ tripline.
[E] There's a tripline, _ [C#m] _ tripline, _ [A] _
tripline, _ [B] _ tripline.
_ [E] _
Tripline, _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] tripline, _ _ [B] _ tripline, _ [E] _
tripline.
_ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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