Song For The Stray Cat On The Fence chords by Pat The Bunny

• Difficulty: Beginner

♫ Intro:

A C D G (x2)


♫ Verse 1:
A                           C
I skipped class and took the number five bus
D                        Am
All the way east, just to see where it ends
         Am                 C
Smoked a cigarette at Udall Station
D                   Am
Got back on the bus again
Am              C        D
We've been this way since you met me
           Am
Hearts not heavy, but empty
    Am                         C
And once a song could raise me up, but now

D                      Am
there's nothing, so I stumbled home a
broken man
Am   C                  C5
With blood on my hands, dead on my feet

Shot down where I stand
     Am                 C
With blood on my hands, dead on my feet
Dm                 Am
Shot where I stand


Chrous:
           C            G           Am
Freedom is beautiful and terrible, it's
                 F
nothing soft and sweet

          C              G          Am
It's used bullets on the sidewalk, fires
           F
across the street
    C           G                Am
It's you moving in with your new boyfriend
   F
in Oakland

           C         G        Am
It's a pack of wild dogs on a road
           F
without a street lamp
     C                        G
It's roaches in the bathroom, mice in the kitchen
    Am                           F
And no one left to blame for the way I've been living
     C                    G
It's mice in the kitchen, roaches in the bathroom
Am N.C.
And no one left to blame


♫ Break:
Am C D G
Am C D A5


♫ Verse 2:
  Am                      C
I woke up late and missed class again
D                                Am
And so I brewed a pot of coffee and went back to bed
            Am
Snatch some bread selling junk from the
C
back of the shed

D
Hop the fence, because the front's being
Am
watched by the feds
Am              Am         C
We've been this way since  we've been
       D
alive, reckless and shy
   Am                C
So I set fire to the house and took off running
D                     Am
I hope that you won't mind
  Am N.C.
I burned down the house to get myself out of this hell alive
  Am                       C
I burned down the house to get myself out
  Dm                  Am
I hope you don't mind


♫ Chorus:
           C                G
Freedom is nothing soft and sweet, it's
       Am        F
beautiful and terrible
     C              G
It's admitting everything that I don't

Am           F
want anyone to know
             C             G
It's telling people that I love I stole

Am                     F
from them when they weren't looking
             C          G
It's fucking up so many times that they

Am             F
won't pick up when I call them
     C                                G
It's watching people die because they got back in it
    Am                        F
And knowing that I don't have any say in it
     C                        G                       Am N.C.
It's watching people die, and knowing I don't get any say


♫ Outro:
Am C D G
Am C D Am