Miss Liberty

Em
I'm Miss Liberty
Give me your junkies
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your irresponsible drummers
Em
I’ve swept my halls clean of clean
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Your kitchen raiders your wingtip dayrunners

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Go plant your flags and make your
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Promise to my promised land
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And we’ll make love to the new frontier
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In the hot beach sands

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  You’ll hold me like a drowning man
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And come at me too human and then
Drag me down again and leave me

Am
Broken like a spine
                               Em
Split open like a melon that’s been
Dropped from a high high place
Am
Broken like a spine
                              Em
Split open like a melon that’s been dropped

Em
I like this country she’s like a whore
Who loves her junkies
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Who loves all her sad outlaws
Em
Lifts up her skirt to tease and flirt
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With the wretched who have washed up at her shores

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When we die I hope someone’s god
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Takes us in like immigrants
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And we’ll make love in the leftover light
            Am
Of heaven’s tenements

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  You’ll hold me like a drowning man
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And come at me too human and then
Drag me down again and leave me

Am
Broken like a spine
                               Em
Split open like a melon that’s been
Dropped from a high high place
Am
Broken like a spine
                                    C
Split open like a melon that’s been dropped
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Yes, Yeah
            Em
Yeah, Yeah, Yes