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The Wild Truth - T Bone Burnett
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
T Bone Burnett
The Wild Truth (1988)
(T Bone Burnett)
From: "The Talking Animals"
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INTRO
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B
You never said it was a bed of roses
E
But you never said it was a bed of nails
B
You never told me 'bout the rubber hoses
E
Or how unsteady were the justice scales
A G
I need the wild truth
A G
The wild truth
A G E
The wild truth
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B
On the street there are a billion people
E
They got no love, they got no hope
B
They got no youth, they got no beauty
E
They're looking backwards through a telescope
A G
They need the wild truth
A G
The wild truth
A G B
The wild truth
B
Whatever happened to the man walking down the street
G#m
With his hands in his pockets whistling a tune?
A B
Science fiction and nostalgia have become the same thing
B
I don't know how to make any choices anymore, I mean,
G#m A
Who do I vote for? I get the feeling that as soon as
B
Something appears in the paper it ceases to be true
B
I have to meet the man who can crack this world of justice
G#m A
Like a safe. Someone with the courage to allow room for
B
Good things to run wild
B A
Into the wild truth
B A
The wild truth
B A E
The wild truth
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B
We don't need no voodoo stories
E
From no magic president
B
Who tries to make a dream a fait accompli
E
By using phantoms for his evidence
A G
We need the wild truth
A G
The wild truth
A G E
The wild truth
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B
I tell a hundred thousand lies that twist me
E
Into the noise where I hide my sin
B
My shame and scandal pull me down and kiss me
E
I can't live a life that might have been
A G
I need the wild truth
A G
The wild truth
A G B
The wild truth
B G#m
Are we supposed to take all this greed and fear and hatred seriously?
A B
It's like watching dust settle it never changes, it's too consistent
B G#m
Mercy is not consistent it's like the wind, it goes where it will.
A B
Mercy is comic, and it's the only thing worth taking seriously
B A
I need the wild truth
B A
The wild truth
B A
The wild truth
B A E
The wild truth
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