[Intro Tab]

e|-0---------------|-0----------------|----------------|-0-------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|-1---------1----|---------------|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-----2----------|----2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|-------------3--|-------3-------|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|--------3-------|-----------0h2-|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1--------------|-1-------------|

[Verse Tab]

e|-0---------------|-0----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|------------1----|------------1----|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-1---------------|------2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|------3-------3--|----3---------3--|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|----3------------|----------3------|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1-------1-------|-1---------------|

[Verse 1]
I don’t know what to say about these days
I’m seeing people changing in the strangest ways
Even in the richer neighborhoods
People don’t know when they’ve got it good
They’ve got the envy, and they’ve got it bad

[Instrumental Fill]

Here’s one way to play that little fill that comes after some verses:

e|------0----------|-0-------3-------|-----0---------|---------------|
B|------------3----|-----------------|-----1---------|---------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|-----2---------|---------------|
D|----------------|------------------|---------------|---------------|
A|-3----3-----2----|-0---------------|---------------|-----------0h2-|
E|-----------------|---------3-------|-1-------------|---------------|

And another way:

e|-------------------|-----------------|---------------|--------------|
B|--------5-----3----|-5-------8-------|-----1---------|--------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------|-----0---------|--------------|
D|--------7-----5----|-7-------10------|--3------------|--------------|
A|-(3)----7-----5----|-7-------10------|-(3)-----------|--------------|
E|-------------------|-----------------|---------------|--------------|

The normal verse chords continue underneath, so you can also just continue to play those instead.

e|-0---------------|-0----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|------------1----|------------1----|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-1---------------|------2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|------3-------3--|----3---------3--|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|----3------------|----------3------|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1-------1-------|-1---------------|

[Verse 2]
When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free
Running up and down Tinsel Town with the fire inside of me
My planet’s all in retrograde, the best of all my plans got laid
I made my breaks, and some mistakes
Just not the ones people think I made

[Chorus Tab]

e|-0---------------|-0----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|------------1----|------------1----|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-1---------------|------2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|------3-------3--|----3---------3--|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|----3------------|----------3------|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1-------1-------|-1---------------|

Now I’m a long way gone
Down this wild road I’m on
It’s going to take me where I'm bound
But it’s the long way a- round

[Instrumental Fill] x2

[Verse 3]
It’s so hard keeping track of what’s gone wrong
The covenant unravels, and the news just rolls along
I could feel my memory letting go some two or three disasters ago
It’s hard to say which did more ill
Citizens United or the Gulf oil spill

And I’m a long way gone
Down this wild road I’m on
It’s going to take me where I'm bound
But it’s the long way a- round

[Instrumental Fill] x2

[Verse 4]
It’s never been that hard to buy a gun
Now they’ll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone
The seeds of trage- dy are there
In what we feel we have the right to bear
To watch our children come to harm
There in the safety of our arms
With all we disagree about
The passions burn, the heart goes out

And we’re a long way gone
Down this wild road we’re on
It’s going to take us where we’re bound
But it’s the long way a- round

[Instrumental Fill] x4

[~Outro~] x 8+

e|-0---------------|-----------------|--------------|--------------|
B|-----------------|-1---------------|-----------1--|--------------|
G|--------------0--|--------------0--|-2------------|--------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|--------3-----|--0-----------|
A|-3-------2-------|-0---------------|--------------|--------------|
E|-----------------|---------3-------|-1------------|--------------|

F Cadd11 Dm7 Csus4 Bbmaj7 x8

[Refrain]
Though the earth may tremble, and our foundations crack
We will all assemble and we will build them back
And rush to save the lives remaining
Still within our reach
Try to put our world [F/C]together, standing in the breach.

So many live in poverty, while others live as kings
C Am D G Aug5
And some may find peace in the acceptance of all that living brings
I will never understand however they’ve prepared
How one life may be struck [F/C]down and another life be spared

[Refrain]
Though the earth may tremble, and cast our works aside
Though our efforts resemble, the fluctuating tide
We rise and fall with the trust and belief
That love redeems us each
And bend our backs and hearts [F/C]together, standing in the breach.

You don’t know why it’s such a far cry
From the world this world could be
You don’t know why but you still try
For the world you wish to see
You don’t know how, it’ll happen now
After all that’s come undone

But you know the change the world needs now
Is there, in everyone
[Guitar solo (not positive of the exact chord progression, but the solo is over something like?)]


The unpaid debts of history
The open wounds of time
The laws of human nature always tugging from behind
I want to think that the earth can heal
And that people might still learn
How to meet this world’s true [F/C]challenges
And that the course we’re on could turn

[Refrain]
And though the earth may tremble and the oceans pitch and rise
We will all assemble and we will lift our eyes
To the tasks that we know lie before us
And the power our prayers beseech
And cast our souls int[F/C]o the heavens, standing in the breach

You don’t know why it’s such a far cry
From the world, this world could be
You don’t know why, but you still try
For the world you wish to see
You don’t know how (it) it’ll happen now
After all that’s come undone
And you know the world you’re waiting for, may not come

No it may not come
But you know the change the world needs now
Is there, in everyone

C… Fm6… C… Fm6… C… Fm6… C