The Madness You Get Used To chords by Carrie Newcomer

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C  F  C  F  C  F C G

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

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

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

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

Instrumental:
C  F  C  F  C  F C G

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

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

Instrumental:
C  F  C  F  C  F C G
Am    F    C    G
Am    F    C    G

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

Chorus:
                          F
It's no big deal they say
                     C
It's just a kind of
                G         Am
Madness you get used to

Chorus:
                          F
It's no big deal they say
                     C
It's just a kind of
                G         Am
Madness you get used to

Chorus:
                          F
It's no big deal they say
                     C
It's just a kind of
                G         Am
Madness you get used to

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

Outro:
C  F  C  F  C  F C G
C  F  C  F  C  F C G