Lilac And Black chords by Ezra Furman

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Intro:

G+G     D MajorD     C majorC
 We all escaped from somewhere else
G+G           D MajorD       C majorC
 To the cruel, cruel city where the asphalt melts
E minorEm          B minorBm     A minorAm
 In the heat of our anger     which finds no release
D MajorD               C majorC
 In the lab rat maze of ever-narrowing streets
   G+G       D MajorD    C majorC
It's no surprise


     G+G         D MajorD    C majorC
We've got blood in our eyes
      G+G       D MajorD    C majorC
We've been alone too long
G+G       D MajorD        C majorC
 We belong together with our weapons drawn

E minorEm    C majorC  D MajorD x2



Verse 1:
           E minorEm
Tonight, tonight I'm dreaming of my queer girl gang
    C majorC        D MajorD
We who walk this deadly path
    E minorEm
And the city that tries to kill us each night
   C majorC          D MajorD
Will soon bow before our wrath, ah

E minorEm  C majorC  D MajorD


Verse 2:
     E minorEm
We've got death stares to ward off enemies
C majorC           D MajorD
Amulets to ward off fear
   E minorEm
And I try to keep count, try to guess the amount
    C majorC             D MajorD
Who'll make it through the coming year
D MajorD
The coming year
E minorEm

Pre-Chorus:
A minorAm
So now we're calling out to stations 'cross the underground
G+G
Gather all your savages and send them out
A minorAm
If you get the signal come defend the crown
   C majorC   G+G     D MajorD
That nobody knows you wear


Chorus:
        E minorEm       G+G
We're out here on the attack
      C majorC        D MajorD
We wear the lilac and black
       E minorEm        G+G
We might not make it back
      C majorC        D MajorD
We wear the lilac and black


E minorEm    C majorC  D MajorD x2
(aggressively, like the chorus)

E minorEm    C majorC  D MajorD x2
(softer, like verses)


Verse 3:
  E minorEm
The cis question if we really exist
C majorC        D MajorD
Sometimes even we've got doubts
    E minorEm
But the feminine deferred like a rubbed-out word
     C majorC                D MajorD
Is still passed around from mouth to mouth
   EmAdd9Emadd9    C majorC  D MajorD
Hell, yeah


Verse 4:
     E minorEm
We might smile and laugh in a photograph
    C majorC             D MajorD
But you know our pretty heads are haunted
     E minorEm
We're the frozen girls in a planned-out world
      C majorC           D MajorD
They never once asked us what we wanted, no

E minorEm


Pre-Chorus:
       A minorAm
So now we're in the territory we've been in before
G+G
End the preparations as begin the war
  A minorAm
The streets of this city's what we're asking for
     C majorC      G+G      D MajorD
And we'll take 'em if they're not given


Chorus:
      E minorEm        G+G
We're never coming back
      C majorC        D MajorD
We wear the lilac and black
        E minorEm      G+G
We're out here on the attack
      C majorC        D MajorD
We wear the lilac and black

         E minorEm       G+G
No, we might not make it back
      C majorC          D MajorD
Oh, we wear lilac and black
      E minorEm          G+G
We leave no trace you can track
      C majorC          D MajorD
We wear the lilac and black


Outro:

E minorEm  G+G  C majorC  D MajorD x2


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