Chords for Skunk Ape Circus

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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ Skunk [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Em] Cave Circus _ is _ _ a group [Am] of [C#] musicians [D#] _ slash [B] performers _ _ [Em] that travel together and
_ try and put on as _ _ stunning and _ moving a show as they can possibly muster up with whatever
[F] resources they have.
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ We were all one big group [B] that was _ experiencing a spectacle.
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Every show something [Bm] new and [A] different and [D] amazing happened.
I [A] think that most of the kids in [B] the punk rock scene [A] these days go [D] to shows and expect
to just see bands and see bands play songs.
[A] With the Skunk Cave [F#m] Circus _ _ [G] it wasn't just [D] seeing a band.
There were bands in it but there were [F#m] all sorts of _ [D] more _ [A] parts to the experience.
The [B] whole, _ I don't know how long it was, maybe an hour [D]
of _ performance pieces was just [G] one
long [Dm] performance [A] with [Em] segments.
At a [A] regular punk rock show _ [G] _ the way that [F#m] people can show their [A] enthusiasm and their
positive response to a performance is very [D] _ _ defined.
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[F#m] You know that you sing [D] along to the words of a song.
If you know the [G] song you like the band and that's how you show the band that you're into
what you're doing.
At the circus tour the entire performance was just more [A] free form and in general people
didn't know exactly, [D] it wasn't defined how [F#m] someone would positively respond to it [Bm] and
so the responses that [D] people did give were a lot more of their own initiative and a lot
more [F#m] empowering I would say than at a [D] regular punk rock show.
[A] _ It really challenged [G] people's ideas of [D] _
_ the kind of performances you [G] see in the underground
[D] _ _ _ [A] scene that we were playing in.
It was an experience where everyone [G] involved, the audience [F#m] was involved in [D] the performance.
It was a real interactive _ _ [Bm] performance [D] piece and I think that a lot of the time _ _ [A] you don't
[G] _ find that a lot in these kinds of venues.
You don't find that a lot [D]
in [A] general.
_ Our performance [G] pieces that actually bring the audience in and [A] let them experience the
performance with you.
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_ I mean [A] I like to think that everyone [B] saw the Skunk Game Circus [G#] Tour, had their [G] sense of
what was possible [D] expanded.
An undertaking that [G] you and people that you knew would be [D] capable of actually pulling off.
[A] In terms of specifics, a lot of people at shows [G] mentioned that they had also wanted
to do [F#m] a circus or something [A] like it and they [D] just never seen an example of anyone actually [E] doing it.
So the [G] fact that they saw us do it was [A] _ inspiring to [D] them and made them think that it was a
lot more possible than they might have thought.
[A] And then more specifically, I know people who since then have started their [D] own circus
and have started a circus club at their [G] college.
And _ specifically, _ [D] we're inspired by our example enough to start a circus themselves.
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_ _ [B] I think it's important [D]
that _ all [G] young people have some sort of [D] experience where they can
create something by themselves and [G] have it be theirs.
[A] And then actually do that.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [D] I think [A] that's a really important experience for any musician to have.
Through doing the circus tour and [Dm] _ touring [D] something besides just [E] bands and independent
music [A] channels, I believe that we [D] increase the market for things to [Dm] go on tour in an
independent, [B] self-directed, [C] _ self [C#m]-initiated way for things [D] that aren't just music.
We set an [D#] example of that being possible and in that way [Em] changed the market for things
that aren't music touring in those [G] ways.
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[F] _ We've been [G] going around [D] all over the [C] country performing this [G] piece with [D] no [F] money to start out [C] with.
Just a [G] bunch of people's car [D] and people getting [C] together and [E] saying we want to do [G] it.
And then [C] we did it.
[D] And we went around and somehow we [G] managed to make it work.
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[D] _ _ And I think [G] that was _ [D] _
[F] really_
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[C] _ _ _ _ [G] I [D] never thought it [F] would be [C] possible [G] to [D] create my own circus [C] program.
_ _ [D] _ _ I think it's really important for _ [C] you to have experience [D] in creating something by [Em] yourself
and _ _ _ having [C] _ all the input be from that.
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_ _ There's a [G] sense of [D] _
[Em] real empowerment there.
_ [Am] We can [A] do anything [C] we want to.
[D] We can do [G] that.
We can pretty much do it [Am] here.
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[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] I realized that anything [G] was possible as long as me [D] and a [A#] group of people [E] believed that
it was [G] enough to actually [D] try to do it through [C] all, like just through all hardship.
[G] _ [D] And I believe [F] that now [C] in a way that I [G] didn't before. _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [D] I'm [F] a rock [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] star.
[C] _ _ _ [G] I'm a rock _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] star.
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