Chords for Every Sacred Thing

_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Cm] Oh, flash of the breast on the [G] big screen, but [C] no penetration or [G] spark.
Cut the [C] claw from the [F] tiger, defang the [Cm] cobra so we can feel [G] safe in the dark.
_ _ _ _ Big money makes the [F] decisions, [Cm] big money owns all [F] the gods.
[Cm] And I can't help but laugh at [F] the puzzled expression when [Cm] I say I won't give to [F] the cause.
_ [Ab] And is it any wonder [Bb] something inside us dies?
_ [Ab] Is it any wonder [Bb] that the spirit cries _ [F] when we sterilize every [Cm] sick [G] thing?
_ _ [Cm] _ _
_ Paved [G] over meadows for strip [Cm] malls, or misguided [G] notions of bliss.
[Cm] And I point [G] to the universe shaking their shoulders saying how can you need [F] more than this?
[Cm] Five thousand years [F] of repression, [Cm] five thousand [F] years of the lie.
[Gm] And I can't help but hoping as I'm watching the changes that maybe we're watching it die.
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ [C] Maybe a [F] hurricane's coming, [Cm] or maybe it's just a soft rain.
And I don't have the [F] answers but every part of my [Cm] being is [C] laughing or crying or screaming for [Ab] change.
And is it any wonder that [Gm] the spirit cries?
_ _ [Ab] Is it any wonder [Bb] something inside us dies?
[F] We sanitize every [Cm] sick thing, _ every sick thing, [F] _ [Cm] every sick thing, _ every sick thing, _ _ _ _
[Gm] every sick thing, [F] every [Cm] sick [N] thing, every sick thing.