Devil In My Bloodstream

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We wiped out all the buffalo around the turn of the last century
            G                                                        A
And so it's factories and sawgrass, wheat fields and asphalt laid in front of me
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The midwest feels like a hollow place that we filled with love and industry
          G
And we're staring at the frozen ground in Goodwill suits
A
Silent as the pastor reads the eulogy
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Well I, I wanted to see just a little bit of everything
        A
Let me be

[Chorus]
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Two blackbirds on a highway sign are laughing at me at four in the morning
                         D      G
They played the war drum out of time
           Bm                   A
So I'm not sure where I've been marching
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I want to be strong, but it's not easy anymore
               D    A  G
I'm hoping I'm wrong

[Verse]
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It's sixteen hours straight to home from the heart of north Missouri
         G
And so I search through my great-grandpa's memoirs
                     A
For the devil in my bloodstream
                       D                                     Bm
Depression grabbed his throat and choked the life out of him slowly
           G
I got the same blood coursing through my veins
                  A
It'll come for me eventually

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I bet I'd be a fucking coward

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I bet I'd never have the guts for war
       G
Cause I can't spend another month away from here
       A
These frantic rest stop phone calls don't get answered anymore
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But I, I wanted to know if I could please come home
            A
So let me know

[Chorus]
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I know how it feels to be at war with a world that never loved me
  D                      A      G
I know how it feels to be at war with a world that never loved me

**-First Prechorus
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