Mourning In Amerika

D 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 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 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 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 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? 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 Instr Outro (Fingerpicked) D... G... Em... A... 2x