State Inspector chords by State Radio

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Intro:
 Bb | Cm | Bb | Ab Eb : Fm | Cm | Ab | Bb :

Verse 1:
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Let me trip the reason of your lecture for a change
       Bb               Ab Eb
Let me tell you how you feel
Fm                            Cm
Let me strap you down and put morphine in your veins
       Ab                Bb
Let me share this bed of steel

Hook:
       Bb N.C.               Cm
‘Cause here come the state inspector
   Bb                      Ab  Eb
So doctor all the resident records
Fm                        Cm
Truth is, he really don’t care less
              Ab                           Bb
It’s just the function of the politics and business

Chorus:
Bb               Cm
Oh, the squalor, woah-oh, the squalor
Bb              Ab Eb
   Let it empty me
Fm                  Cm
Welcome to whatever God may do
        Ab                       Bb
It’s no secret that you’ll never leave

Interlude:
    Cm   Eb Bb
Oh, oh
         Cm   Eb Bb
Woah-oh, oh
    Cm   Eb  Eb  Bb
Oh, oh

Hook:
       Bb N.C.               Cm
‘Cause here come the state inspector
   Bb                      Ab  Eb
So doctor all the resident records
Fm                        Cm
Truth is, he really don’t care less
              Ab                           Bb
It’s just the function of the politics and business

Verse 2:
Bb              Cm
Deinstitutionalization
Bb                              Ab   Eb
Had a wife, but left her at the station
            Fm
Now there’s women in the stairwells
            Cm
Where their love lives don’t fare well
Ab                             Bb
Whoring themselves away in the kitchen

Verse 3:
    Bb                               Cm
But look, see that woman gettin’ all dressed up
Bb                              Ab Eb
Putting on her earrings and her makeup
    Fm                          Cm
And in another world, there’s a long-necked girl
      Ab                         Bb
Who’s wishing she’d never been a grown-up

Chorus:
Bb N.C.          Cm
Oh, the squalor, woah-oh, the squalor
Bb              Ab Eb
   Let it empty me
Fm                  Cm
Welcome to whatever God may do
        Ab                       Bb
It’s no secret that you’ll never leave, no

Instrumental:
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Bridge:
Cm                   Eb            Bb
Maybe today, I won’t get the wrong meds
    Cm                       Eb        Bb
And maybe today, I’ll get my forty-six cents
    Cm                          Eb          Eb
And maybe today, I’ll jump that barbed wire fence
    Eb                   Bb
And leave this place altogether

Hook:
             Bb N.C.                     Cm
‘Cause we’re callin’ all the president’s men
           Bb                         Ab Eb
‘Cause I’m stuck in this room, locked in
          Fm                Cm
Won’t you do me a favor and give me ten
   Ab                  Bb
So I can peek into the hallway again

Chorus:
Bb               Cm
Oh, the squalor, woah-oh, the squalor
Bb              Ab Eb
   Let it empty me
Fm                  Cm
Welcome to whatever God may do
        Ab                       Bb    Cm
It’s no secret that you’ll never leave