Chords with lyrics
- Capo on 5th
- Difficulty: Beginner
Key: 
C majorC
🎸 Intro:
E minorEm 
G+G C majorC
E minorEm G+G C majorC
E minorEm 
FF G+G 
A minorAm
G+G FF C majorC
🎸 Verse 1:
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Forever cursed to live unrelaxed
E minorEm FF G+G A minorAm
We make no bones, a house is not a home
G+G FF C majorC
And a home is nowhere we can stay
🎸 Verse 2:
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Dodged the draft but can't dodge the war
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Forever cursed to live insecure
E minorEm FF G+G A minorAm
The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles
G+G FF C majorC
Trembling before our human nature
🎸 Chorus 1:
DmDm C majorC
It wasn't built for me
DmDm A minorAm G+G
It's your academy
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm
But in my time, you taught me how to see
G+G FF C majorC
Each generation makes its own apology
E minorEm G+G C majorC
E minorEm G+G C majorC
E minorEm FF G+G A minorAm
G+G FF C majorC
🎸 Verse 3:
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Welcome back, my oldest friend
E minorEm G+G C majorC
Are you cursed to depart again?
E minorEm FF G+G A minorAm
Your ways and means, eternally obscene
G+G FF C majorC
And always looking for obscenity and hatred
🎸 Chorus 2:
DmDm C majorC
It wasn't built for me
DmDm A minorAm G+G
It's your academy
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm
But in my time, you taught me how to see
G+G FF C majorC
Each generation makes its own apology
E minorEm G+G C majorC
E minorEm G+G C majorC
E minorEm FF G+G A minorAm
G+G FF C majorC
🎸 Outro:
DmDm C majorC
It wasn't built for me
DmDm A minorAm G+G
It's your academy
FF C majorC G+G A minorAm
But in my time, you taught me how to see
G+G FF C majorC
Each generation makes its own apology
FF G+G A minorAm
It's by design and consequentially
G+G FF C majorC
Each generation makes its own apology
