Checks And Balances chords by Lilli Furfaro

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 6th

Key: EbmEbm

Intro:


A minorAm C majorC DmDm E MajorE


Verse :

  A minorAm           C majorC
If memory is smoke I am a bonfire doused an hour ago
  DmDm             E MajorE
If purpose is an engine turn my birthright into coal
  A minorAm               C majorC
My temper borne of winter I know hibernation well
    DmDm               E MajorE             A minorAm
and the longer I must wait for justice I grow ever hungry in the cold

Chorus:

C majorC              DmDm
Grasping at the little I control
             E MajorE
I fight the devil with a devil

Making deals it hardly matters when
           A minorAm
You're gambling with worthless things
           C majorC
Like souls and other horrors
          DmDm
Turn my terror into terror
               E MajorE
Take from them just what they took from me


Verse :

     A minorAm                 C majorC
And it's hard to shoot a pistol when you're looking through a mask
     DmDm               E MajorE
And it's hard to see a future when your purpose is your past
  A minorAm              C majorC
If rage and engineering build my legacy of fire
    DmDm
I must sit upon my secret
     E MajorE
Name each bullet
             A minorAm
Shoot to kill and live to last

Chorus:

C majorC            DmDm
Grasping at the little I control
             E MajorE
I fight my terror with an army

- not the kind that wields my horrors no
             A minorAm
The kind that fights with laughter
          C majorC
and the sunlight of forgiveness
              DmDm
Looks through darkness and decorum
         E MajorE
Sees a man not a monstrosity

Verse :

  A minorAm             C majorC
If loneliness is prison every touch is liberation
     DmDm             E MajorE
Love will outlast and antidote where hatred is the poison
   A minorAm               C majorC
And I know good deeds don't guarantee a path to some salvation
      DmDm            E MajorE
But what if rage and engineering turn destruction to creation

Chorus:

A minorAm             DmDm
Holding tight to what I can control
             E MajorE
I fight my terror with a family

Making deals the checks and balances they help me build
 A minorAm                   C majorC
A augmentedA birthright borne of blood and death and winter
             DmDm
Peace hard won and better justice
               E MajorE
I've reclaimed just what they took from me
 N.C.              A minorAm
I've reclaimed just what they took

C majorC DmDm E MajorE A minorAm