We Can Run chords by Grateful Dead

Chords with lyrics

A augmentedA E MajorE
We don't own this place, though we act as if we did,
D MajorD E MajorE
It's a loan from the children of our children's kids.
B minorBm A augmentedA
The actual owners haven't even been born yet.

But we never tend the garden and rarely we pay the rent,
Some of it is broken and the rest of it is bent
Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we'll be when the bills hit.

Chorus:
A augmentedA
We can run,
E MajorE
But we can't hide from it.
D MajorD
Of all possible worlds,
E MajorE
We only got one:
A augmentedA
We gotta to ride on it.
A augmentedA
Whatever we've done,
E MajorE
We'll never get far from what we leave behind,
F# minorF#m D MajorD
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.

I'm dumpin' my trash in your back yard
Makin' certain you don't notice really isn't so hard
You're so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them.

Well, it's oil for the rich and babies for the poor,
We got everyone believin' that more is more,
If a reckoning comes, maybe we will know what to do then.

We can run,
But we can't hide from it.
Of all possible worlds,
We only got one:
We gotta to ride on it.
Whatever we've done,
We'll never get far from what we leave behind,
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.
E MajorE A augmentedA
Oh no, we can't hide.

Bridge:

F# minorF#m E MajorE D MajorD
All these complications seem to leave no choice,
F# minorF#m E MajorE D MajorD
I heard the tongues of billions speak with just one voice,
F# minorF#m E MajorE
Saying, "Just leave all the rest to me,
D MajorD C# minorC#m
I need it worse than you, you see."
B minorBm
And then I heard...
(No Chord)
The sound of one child crying.

Today I went walking in the amber wind,
There's a hole in the sky where the light pours in
I remembered the days when I wasn't afraid of the sunshine.

But now it beats down on the asphalt land
Like a hammering blow from God's left hand
What little still grows cringes in the shade like a bad vine.