The Madness You Get Used To chords by Carrie Newcomer

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G

Verse:
C majorC      FF     C majorC     FF
Violence for violence, time after time
C majorC       FF   C majorC   G+G         C majorC
Putting those things right out of your mind
       FF      C majorC     FF
Thinking this could never happen to you
C majorC       FF   C majorC   G+G        A minorAm
Just to those folks on the evening news

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
        G+G
Madness you get used to
A minorAm              FF
It's a truth you always have known
            C majorC
It's tough as sinew and bone
       G+G
And you don't get used to it

Verse:
C majorC      FF      C majorC      FF
Violence for violence, it just comes around
  C majorC      FF   C majorC   G+G
It cries in the night with a desperate sound
  C majorC      FF    C majorC        FF
But where do you run when fear stalks your dreams?
C majorC     FF C majorC    G+G              A minorAm
How do you measure the weight of those things?

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
        G+G
Madness you get used to
A minorAm              FF
It's a truth you always have known
            C majorC
It's tough as sinew and bone
       G+G
And you don't get used to it

Instrumental:
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G

Verse:
  C majorC        FF     C majorC      FF
The strong will get by, 'cause they always do
  C majorC       FF  C majorC    G+G        C majorC
The small and the helpless are counting on you
        FF        C majorC     FF
Doesn't anybody notice, doesn't anybody care
C majorC        FF  C majorC   G+G         A minorAm
Doesn't anybody ever give a damn out there

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
        G+G
Madness you get used to
A minorAm              FF
It's a truth you always have known
            C majorC
It's tough as sinew and bone
       G+G
And you don't get used to it

Instrumental:
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G
A minorAm  FF  C majorC  G+G
A minorAm  FF  C majorC  G+G

Verse:
   C majorC     FF     C majorC         FF
Well, up on the hill they fight like little children
C majorC    FF C majorC G+G          C majorC
Arguing over who gets the crumbs
       FF     C majorC      FF
Plotting and planning, cheating and scamming
     C majorC     FF  C majorC  G+G          A minorAm
While the soul of a country slowly gets numb

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
        G+G     A minorAm
Madness you get used to

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
        G+G     A minorAm
Madness you get used to

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
        G+G     A minorAm
Madness you get used to

Chorus:
             FF
It's no big deal they say
           C majorC
It's just a kind of
   G+G
Mad----ness

Outro:
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G
C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC FF C majorC G+G