Mourning In Amerika chords by Rise Against

• Capo on 7th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Half-Step Down Tuning

Intro:

D

Verse 1:
D*
Stand by to switch on

We fire out all pistons
    G*
We're singing along

But no one is listening
   A*
From dusk until dawn
                D
We stay up to carry the flame
D
And when it's all said and done

In these alternate endings
   G
When nothing is love

But the stragglers and empties
   A
We're sleeping it off
                  D A*
Just to wake up and start it again

Bm
So burn the statues to the ground
Gm
Start to lay your weapons down
D
Bound for glory on this street
A
But there's a bridge up overhead
Bm
Noise cancel, drown the signal out
Gm
Change channels, manufactured doubt
D
When the only thing we'll fight for every day
A
Is a better seat on a crashing...
Gm*
Plain to see, but hard to breathe
A*
The streets are full of tumbleweeds


Chorus:
      D                 G
And now it's morning in the streets of Amerika
Em         A
But we don't go outside anymore
D             G
The radio blasts hysteria
Em              A       D
While the television's sideways on the floor


Verse 2:
D
Under moonlit skies and surveillance
G
As we cheer from the stands in the stadiums
A                     D A
On a jumbotron we all sing along to escape
Bm
Once we were the lighthouse
Gm
To the world's most desperate ships
       D
But what we became was a towering flame
       A
Leading the moth right into it
      Gm*        A*      *slap*
Now we are waking up to the phone lines cut


Chorus:
      D               G
'Cause it's morning in the streets of Amerika
  Em        A
And we don't go outside anymore
  D           G
The radio blasts hysteria
  Em            A         Bm
While the television's sideways... on the floor


Verse 3:
     Bm         Gm
With a teleprompter in our faces
                    D
Yeah, we don't even know what we're saying
          A
Car that's slowly crashing
          Bm
And we can't look away
              Gm
Parading to the edge of the cliff now
                     D
We're trying to figure out how to get down
              A
While the night is fast approaching
     Gm*       Bm*          A*
Would we even recognise our former lives in this artificial light?


Chorus:
 D             G
Morning in the streets of Amerika
 Em          A
But we don't go outside anymore
 D             G
There's something wrong with the stereo
 Em         A
And the television's sideways
 D                G
We're mourning in the streets of Amerika
 D             G
Mourning in the streets of Amerika
  D            G
We're mourning in the streets of Amerika
  D*            G*
Mourning in the streets of Amerika


Instrumental Outro:

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