Fire In America chords by Sasha Allen

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: Db

🎸 Verse 1:
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Most don't get a choice in the matter
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Crouched down in the classroom with the lights off
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Some die at the hands of another
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And some people build the hills that they die on


🎸 Verse 2:
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And bullets don't discriminate like people do
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They don't care about what you claim to believe
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And if you think that death is just the unfortunate cost of freedom
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You will live, and surely die in irony

🎸 Verse 3:
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Cause you once said that empathy is made up
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That you can't stand it, it's some new age type of view
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You probably wouldn't feel a thing if I was gunned down
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But I am nothing like you


🎸 Verse 4:
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Cause violence is a bed in which we wake up
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It is heavy, it is twisted, it is silent
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It is bullets, blood, and burning bodies
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Constant carnage, children starving
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Seared onto the inside of our eyelids


🎸 Verse 5:
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We are disturbingly desensitized to suffering of the cruelest kind
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And bloodshed will continue to exist
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When the sick and sudden way he died allowed us all to watch it live
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The leading cause of death in our kids


🎸 Verse 6:
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And now they say, "Our nation's truly broken"
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Is this what it took for you to catch on?
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There are hospitals and churches turned to burning ash
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And the red, white, and blue supplied the bomb


🎸 Verse 7:
      Am7              C
Cause violence doesn't happen in a vacuum
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And it's a lesson many still have yet to learn
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That when your policy is lined with disregard for human life
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You cannot be surprised when things like this occur


🎸 Verse 8:
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And all I feel is fear where this leaves us
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For people like me and like you
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There's full blown fire in America
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And a fascist on Air Force Two