Swan Song Chords by Kublai Khan TX

[Start]

[Verse]
N.C.                                 
To all the ladies working Iowa eighty
Ab                                           
Selling pussy to the chrome on the interstate
Ab                                   
Living hard lives working long nights
                     Ab                             
Hit by every man you ever loved 'til your heart died


[Chorus]
                           Ab    
You're my mother you're my sister
Ab7                   
And a daughter tonight
          Ab               
For every bruise and excuse
                           Ab  
You tried but you couldn't hide
                       Ab  
For all the fear every tear
                    Ab   
Slowly burning your sight
                    Ab       
For every moment in the light
  Ab7                            
I fucking see you tonight goddamn


[Inst]
C7 Ab Ab7 Ab Ab7 C7 Ab
■  ■  ■   ■  ■   ■  ■ 


[Chorus]
Ab7    Ab                       
To see heartbreak from my window
Ab              
Such a sad state
        Ab                   
I can't stop to even help you
Ab                    
What the hell can I do


[Verse]
    A7 Ab7                 
Say ■  that's just her life
Ab     Bb7         A7  A      
Turned out used up and defiled
                 Ab           
Deep pain starts early in life
Ab7                   A7              
■   Every woman still once was a child
Ab7                        
Who's one story of millions
                            A7     
Swan song sung city to city to city
     A7                     
Your hurt hit closer to home
Ab7      Bb7    A7 
But what do you see
                          A7           
Graves beneath the family tree of abuse
        A7                                                
Fucking raped at age four on the floor of the chicken coop
                 A7                      
I saw her casket fucking covered in flies
  A7                                                             
A botched embalming job still smelled like somebody died for what


[Chorus]
     Eb7         
Dead ■   end path


[Verse]
     Eb7                                      
Eyes up for all the woman suffering so visibly
             Eb7                 
The runaways enslaved unwillingly
               Eb7        
Drug addiction dereliction
                  Eb7               
Dying from trauma induced conditions
                       Eb7     
But you must find your strength
Eb7                                
I can't walk your life your history
                          Eb7   
To see heartbreak from my window
             Eb7                 
One day this world might hear you


[Chorus]
Ab7       A7 Ab7                             A7  
Sometimes ■  ■   you gotta let the rough end drag


[Outro]
Ab7               N.C.      
I've learned that I'm worthy
N.C.                             
And just because I have something
N.C.                            
I don't have to use it as a tool
N.C.                               
Meaning my tits my ass and my pussy
N.C.                                
That I can come higher with my brain
N.C.                           
I've learned that a real person
N.C.                                                  
You do not have to take shame for anything that you do
N.C.                                 
When you did it for a means to an end


[Verse]
N.C.                                                         
And I've learned to not be ashamed of anything that I've done
N.C.                                
And that my todays and my yesterdays
N.C.                                                  
They can be my business but I can share with the world
N.C.                    
Don't be ashamed of them
N.C.                   
Learn something from it
N.C.                          
And whenever you have to do it
N.C.                            
You can call it what you want to
N.C.                       
But still you gotta survive


[End]