Chords with lyrics
Key: C majorC
🎸 Intro:
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
🎸 Verse 1:
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Three thousand miles of wilderness, overcome by the flow
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A augmentedA lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show
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I seek a thousand answers
I find but one or two
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I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed
🎸 Chorus:
E5E5 C5C5
Against the grain
E5E5 C5C5
That's where I'll stay
E5E5
Swimming upstream
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
I maintain against the grain
🎸 Verse 2:
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Here labeled as lunatic, sequestered and content
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There ignored and defeated by the government
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There's an oriented public whose magnetic force does pull
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But away from the potential of the individual
🎸 Chorus:
E5E5 C5C5
Against the grain
E5E5 C5C5
That's where I'll stay
E5E5
Swimming upstream
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
I maintain against the grain
🎸 Verse 3:
C5C5 E5E5
The flow is getting stronger with smaller increments of time
C5C5 E5E5
And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find
C5C5 E5E5
You need all that the other has, it's your right to seize the day
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away
🎸 Chorus:
E5E5 C5C5
Against the grain
E5E5 C5C5
That's where I'll stay
E5E5
Swimming upstream
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
I maintain against the grain
🎸 Verse 4:
C5C5 E5E5
There's a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer
C5C5 E5E5
A augmentedA reverberating chorus that anyone can hear
C5C5 E5E5
It sings, "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously"
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5
This lulling sense or purpose will destroy us rapidly
🎸 Chorus:
E5E5 C5C5
Against the grain
E5E5 C5C5
That's where I'll stay
E5E5
Swimming upstream
C5C5 E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
I maintain against the grain
🎸 Outro:
E5E5 C5C5
Against the grain
E5E5 C5C5
Against the grain
E5E5 C5C5 E5E5
Against the grain