The Devil In My Bloodstream

	  		


                     C# 
We wiped out all the Buffalo 
                            A#m 
Around the turn of the last century, 
            F# 
And so it's factories and sawgrass, 
                                 G# 
Wheat fields and asphalt laid in front of me. 
                          C# 
The Midwest feels like a hollow place 
                             A#m 
That we filled with love and industry. 
          F# 
And we're staring at the frozen ground in Goodwill suits, 
G# 
Silent as the pastor reads the eulogy. 
    F#          G#           A#m   G#     F# 
Well I wanted to see just a little bit of everything. 
       G# 
Let me be. 


                    C#      F# 
Two blackbirds on a highway sign 
                A#m               G# 
Are laughing at me at four in the morning. 
                         C#     F# 
They played the war drum out of time 
       A#m                       G# 
So I'm not sure where I've been marching. 
           A#m                  F# 
I wanna be strong, but it's not easy anymore. 
                  C#         G#        F# 
I'm hoping I'm wrong. 


                   C# 
It's sixteen hours straight to home 
                        A#m 
From the heart of North Missouri, 
         F# 
And so I searched through my great-grandpop's memoirs 
                    G# 
For the devil in my bloodstream. 
                        C# 
Depression grabbed his throat 
                               A#m 
And choked the life out of him slowly. 
             F# 
I've got the same blood coursing through my veins 
                       G# 
And it'll come for me eventually. 


                       C# 
I bet I'd be a fucking coward. 
                         A#m 
I bet I'd never have the guts for war, 
              F# 
'Cause I can't spend another month away from here. 
      G# 
These frantic rest stop phone calls don't get answered anymore. 
    F#             G#              A#m    G#   F# 
But I, I wanted to know if I could please come home. 
           G# 
So let me know. 


                    C#      F# 
Two blackbirds on a highway sign 
                A#m               G# 
Are laughing at me at four in the morning. 
                         C#     F# 
They played the war drum out of time 
       A#m                      G# 
So I'm not sure where I've been marching. 
           A#m      C#             F# 
I wanna be strong,    but it's not easy anymore. 
                 C#          G#       F# 
I'm hoping I'm wrong. 
                 C#          G#       F# 
I'm hoping I'm wrong. 


C#    G#   F# 

                    C#      F# 
Two blackbirds on a highway sign 
                A#m               G# 
Are laughing at me at four in the morning 
                         C#     F# 
They played the war drum out of time 
       A#m                      G# 
So I'm not sure where I've been marching. 


            A#m          C#       F# 
I wanna be strong. 
            C#       G#          F# 
I wanna be strong, but it's not easy anymore.