A   E   F#m  D
A   E   D

[Verse 1]
         A                         E
We don't own this place, though we act as if we did,
       D                             E
It's a loan from the children of our children's kids.
    Bm                              A
The actual owners haven't even been born yet.

[Verse 2]
       A                         E
But we never tend the garden and rarely we pay the rent,
D                            E
Most of it is broken and the rest of it is bent
       Bm                                                  A
Put it all on plastic and I wonder where we'll be when the bills hit.

[Chorus]
       A                 E
We can run, but we can't hide from it.
       D                   E
Of all possible worlds, we only got one:
            A
We gotta to ride on it.
               A                              E
Whatever we've done, we'll never get far from what we leave behind,
             F#m                         D
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.

[Verse 3]
    A                   E
I'm dumpin' my trash in your back yard
       D                               E
Makin' certain you don't notice really isn't so hard
          Bm                                             A
You're so busy with your guns and all of your excuses to use them.

[Verse 4]
           A                    E
Well, it's oil for the rich and babies for the poor,
       D                       E
We got everyone believin' that more is more,
     Bm                                          A
If a reckoning comes, maybe we will know what to do then.

[Chorus]
       A                 E
We can run, but we can't hide from it.
       D                   E
Of all possible worlds, we only got one:
            A
We gotta to ride on it.
               A                              E
Whatever we've done, we'll never get far from what we leave behind,
             F#m                         D
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.
   E            A
Oh no, we can't hide.

[Bridge]
F#m             E               D
All these complications seem to leave no choice,
  F#m                  E                   D
I heard the tongues of billions speak with just one voice,
         F#m                E
Saying, "Just leave all the rest to me,
  D                  C#m
I need it worse than you, you see."
    Bm
And then I heard...
N.C.
The sound of one child crying.

[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
  A                         E
Today I went walking in the amber wind,
          D                         E
There's a hole in the sky where the light pours in
    Bm                                            A
I remembered the days when I wasn't afraid of the sunshine.

[Verse 6]
    A                        E
But now it beats down on the asphalt land
       D                   E
Like a hammering blow from God's left hand
     Bm                                A
What little still grows cringes in the shade like a bad vine.

[Chorus]
       A                 E
We can run, but we can't hide from it.
       D                   E
Of all possible worlds, we only got one:
            A
We gotta to ride on it.
               A                              E
Whatever we've done, we'll never get far from what we leave behind,
             F#m                         D
Baby, we can run, run, run, but we can't hide.
E                 A
No baby, we can't hide.