Electricity Chords by Pere Ubu

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Cities are stones.
_ _ People are [Em] important.
_ [E] People breathe, die, they [Dm] come, they go.
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[Em] But stones are true.
They don't die.
They don't go anywhere either.
They don't want to move.
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[Em] _ Stones talk like our fathers talked.
Languages [D] talk [Em] together.
We don't understand. _ _ _
[Dm] We're free.
_ Nobody [Am] understands.
_ Nobody [Dm] understands.
_ [Am] All the words that we've carried [G] for so long.
[Am] But on death's heels,
[G] children hear our [Am] hopes and fears.
Hope, death, [E] and fear.
An awful solitude.
Pain and greed [D] speak past each [Em] other.
Whispering in the dark, [E] strange. _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ Nobody [Am] understands.
_ Nobody understands.
[Dm] _ _ All [Am] the words that we've carried for [G] so long.
But [Am] on death's heels,
children [G] hear our hopes [Am] and fears.
_ Hope, [E] death, and fear. _ _
[Em] The sun sets.
People sleep.
In the surrounding hills,
they huddle against the empty darkness
round their suburban campfires.
_ Above in [E] the sky,
the stars come undone.
[Em] Alone in the city,
there's nothing but strange and dark.
Feels like all the fading [B] hopes that never were. _ _