The New Wild West chords by Jewel

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1. You see the ghost of the buffalo moving both fierce and slow
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  like glittering prophesies, on the edge of the horizon.
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  As you drive glittering highways and beaten-up byways,
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  that straddle and girdle our great and many-faced nation.
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  You see the lambs in the ghettos who worship their Gepettos,
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   believing in, never seeing, the strings they think bind them.
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  So we write to our congressmen with bleeding pens of the sorrow within,
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  and in return, they just send tickets to the latest Tom Hanks show.

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Welcome to the new Wild West, each man for himself.
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  Civilized steeples, and lonely people, welcome to the new Wild West.

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2. There are so many factions and cue-card reactions,


  it's hard to keep clear the possibilities here,
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   'cause there's no force to unite them.
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  Privilege has ruled for thousands of years,


   wars have been fought with bibles and tears,
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  yet liberation can't deny the temptation, soon becomes the oppressor.
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  Show me a leader who's fit to lead,


  who don't sow his seed in anything wounded enough to breed,
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  because after all, what fun is power, if you can't act like a rock star?


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Welcome to the new Wild West,    each man for himself.
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  Civilized steeples, and lonely people, welcome to the new - -


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  La la da da, la la la la da da.  (2x)


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3. As for me, I've been petty, oh, and unkind, but I know my own mind,


  and since it seems clear there's no one leading us here,


  the only thing left it appears is
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  to task ourselves to be better each time, than those before us.
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  We'll be an army of thieves, of self-freed slaves,


  of mild-mannered maids, we'll fight with whispers and blades,
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  so get ready, a new day is dawning


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Welcome to the new Wild West,    each man for himself.
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  A nation of civilized steeples, and lonely people,
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  welcome to the new Wild West.