Epitaph In Tongues

	  		Intro: Am 

Verse: 1 
Am 
Paid top dollar but wrote it off 
Am 
Imported girls at the diamond trough 
       G                              Am 
He’ll fix you up but he won’t get you off 
Am 
File it under the tax evasion 
Am 
Dupe the christians and fool the laymans 
G                             Am 
To Panama or to the Cayman Islands 


F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G                               Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone 
F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G                               Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone 


Verse: 2 
Am 
Whistle blowers in a sea of horns 
Am 
Fists are shaking behind closed doors 
G                                     Am 
Scroll through souls of one-man proxy war 
Am 
Ample feedlots adorn the fen 
Am 
A bar code tattooed on your skin 
    G                                 Am 
The answers are all blowing in the tailspin 


F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G                               Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone 
F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G                               Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone 


Guitar solo 

Bridge 
F 
Memory is failing 
Am 
An epitaph in tongues 
F 
Logic is flailing 
G                    Am 
Exhaling … through an iron lung 

Verse: 3 
Am 
Breath it in till it makes you high 
Am 
Don’t look the devil straight in the eye 
    G                                     Am 
He flipped the script and in it he’s the good guy 


F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G                               Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone 
F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G                               Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone 
F 
All that you’re fighting for 
G               F 
All that you’re fighting for 
D                F              Am 
All that you’re fighting for is gone