Trauma

D C G A# G X2

[Verse]
D                                         C
What makes a girl start a fire in the hall
               G               A#       G
Leave a lipstick scrawl on the bathroom mirror?
D                      C
She won't settle for a pile of scrap metal
          G                      A#           G
While you work the gas pedal at another man's steer
D                         C
She takes her time as authorities arrive
      G                      A#         G
Going out for a smoke in the empty back lot
D                      C
She sees the world she imagined as a girl
      G                    A#        G
Was a lottery ticket for a phony jackpot

[Chorus]
E                                   G              D
Years roll on and we still have not dealt with our trauma
E                                   G             A
Years roll on and we still have not looked at our sin

[Verse 2]
D                       C
What makes a man take a hammer in his hand
          G                        A#      G
Shatter every last window of the company store
D                C
At 3 AM with the furies back again?
         G                     A#       G
Now it's him against them in a personal war
D                  C
The mind snaps and economies collapse
         G                              A#       G
When the one who works hardest gets the smallest reward
D               C
The big scam is nobody gives a damn
         G                              A#           G
That the penthouse suite depends on the bottom three floors

[Bridge]
Bm   G                          D
And I know how hard you've been working
Bm     G                        D
We all know somebody who's been killed
Bm                         G
We hold power, though it's only for the hour
        D
Let the ivory tower know the power we wield
Bm                       G                                D
They know we got 'em and empire's in its autumn when it's built

From the bottom and the bottom won't build

[Chorus]
E                                     G              D
Years roll on and they still have not dealt with our trauma
E                                     G               A
Years roll on and they still have not looked at their sin