State Of The Union chords by Richard Shindell

Chords with lyrics

Richard Shindell - State Of The Union


CAPO: 3rd Fret


INTRO: E minorEm C majorC (5x)

   E minorEm    G+G      C majorC      G+G   C majorC
That nice easy mark at the edge of the park
        G+G   C majorC  D MajorD
A augmentedA slam dunk if ever I saw one
 E minorEm       G+G        C majorC     G+G
I don't know what happened, I just let it go by
 C majorC      D MajorD    E minorEm   C majorC E minorEm C majorC
I guess maybe out of respect

     E minorEm     G+G       C majorC     G+G   C majorC
This old town is my home, and I'm not so far gone
            G+G   C majorC   D MajorD
That I don't feel like anyone else
    E minorEm     G+G    C majorC     G+G
And it didn't seem right to add to the wrong
  C majorC    D MajorD      E minorEm
I decided to get me some help


CHORUS:
  C majorC             D MajorD    E minorEm
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
Over and over again
    E minorEm     G+G     C majorC     A minorAm
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
   C majorC      D MajorD      E minorEm  C majorC E minorEm C majorC
I've heard it can happen that way


     E minorEm     G+G      C majorC      G+G
So I went down to the clinic on a Hundred and Tenth
 C majorC     G+G   C majorC     D MajorD
I got on the methadone program
 E minorEm    G+G     C majorC     G+G
I waited on line every morning at nine
    C majorC      D MajorD     E minorEm   C majorC E minorEm C majorC
For my little white cup, my reprieve


    E minorEm   G+G     C majorC     G+G
It was going okay, I was feeling alright
 C majorC    G+G    C majorC  D MajorD
I even got back with my daughter
 E minorEm     G+G         C majorC    G+G  C majorC
I lost a few friends, they were anything but
         D MajorD   E minorEm
Just took it one day at time

CHORUS:
  C majorC             D MajorD    E minorEm
If not now, then when? I was asking myself
C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
Over and over again
    E minorEm     G+G     C majorC     A minorAm  C majorC
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
        D MajorD      E minorEm  C majorC E minorEm C majorC
They say it can happen that way


INSTRUMENTAL: G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm G+G C majorC G+G C majorC D MajorD E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC


 E minorEm      G+G      C majorC     G+G   C majorC
I can't say for sure how it all fell apart
        G+G  C majorC D MajorD
One thing just led to another
E minorEm      G+G      C majorC    G+G
Next thing I knew, I had stolen a car
   C majorC        D MajorD     E minorEm   C majorC E minorEm C majorC
I was flying straight up to the Bronx


    E minorEm      G+G    C majorC       G+G
Must've lost the old touch, I blew through a toll
   C majorC       G+G     C majorC D MajorD
They caught me just outside of Rye
     E minorEm     G+G      C majorC      G+G
Sporting all that remained of my new-found resolve
 C majorC     D MajorD    E minorEm
A augmentedA shirt that said NYPD


CHORUS:
   C majorC           D MajorD    E minorEm
Some shred of my soul could almost believe
     C majorC        G+G      D MajorD
That the Lord sent those cruisers for me
    E minorEm     G+G     C majorC     A minorAm  C majorC
Make it right, get free, get rid of the junk
          D MajorD      E minorEm
But it don't always happen that way


INTERLUDE: C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm C majorC


    E minorEm      G+G   C majorC    G+G
At the half-way house we're sitting around
C majorC      G+G      C majorC D MajorD
Watching the State of the Union
    E minorEm      G+G   C majorC         G+G
Me, I'm rolling that stone right back up the hill
   C majorC      D MajorD      E minorEm  C majorC E minorEm C majorC
Watch out for the shit coming down


      E minorEm     G+G    C majorC       G+G
'Cause the President's up there grinning that grin
C majorC         G+G    C majorC  D MajorD
Thinking he's some kind of John Wayne
   E minorEm     G+G        C majorC     G+G
We're howling and jeering, all his talk about drilling
  C majorC      D MajorD     E minorEm
And shooting our way out of this


CHORUS:
  C majorC              D MajorD     E minorEm
If not now then when, we're all asking ourselves
C majorC    G+G   D MajorD
Over and over again
    E minorEm     G+G     C majorC     A minorAm  C majorC
Make it right? Get free? Get rid of the junk?
          D MajorD      E minorEm
But it don't always happen that way