The Perilous Night - Drive-By Truckers

The Perilous Night chords

[Intro]
Gm Bb Cm
Gm Bb Cm
 
Gm Bb Cm Gm x2
 
Gm         Bb              Cm        Gm
We needed warming from the cold hard facts
Gm          Bb               Eb    Gm
Unheeded warnings bout the broken tracks
Gm             Bb                Cm            Gm Bb Cm
All hope is fading and it's not coming back again
 
Gm         Bb           Cm     Gm
Uniting forces may be calling fast
Gm         Bb             Eb    Gm
Changing courses to some Stalin past
Gm       Bb                Eb      Gm          Bb  F
Melting faces through the looking glass, my friend
 
Gm                 Bb          Gm
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
        Bb             Gm
Out of control in the appetite
             Bb          Cm             Gm  Bb Cm

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We're moving into the perilous night, Amen
Bb Gm Bb Cm
Amen
 
[Instrumental]
Gm Bb Cm
 
Gm               Bb               Cm         Gm
Dumb, white and angry with their cup half filled
              Bb            Cm          Gm
Running over people down in Charlottesville
Gm           Bb              Eb               Gm    Bb F
White House Fury, it's the killing side, he defends
 
Gm           Bb               Eb         Gm
Defend the up-ender, yes he played that tune
Gm            Bb             Cm      Gm
Is ain't the ending but it's coming soon
Gm            Bb               Cm        Gm     Bb Cm Gm
We're making love beneath a sputnik moon again
 
Gm              Bb              Eb            Gm
White House is glowing from the Red Square light
Gm               Bb             Eb           Gm
The gates at the border being slammed down tight
Gm           Bb        Eb             Gm
We're moving into the perilous night, my friend
 
Gm                 Bb          Gm
Something's got a hold of our feel alright
        Bb             Gm
Out of control in the appetite
             Bb          Cm             Gm  Bb Cm
We're moving into the perilous night, Amen
Bb Gm Bb Cm
Amen
 
[Instrumental]
Gm Bb Cm
F Eb Gm Eb
 
F                             Eb         Gm    Eb
And why's that drone looking through my window?
F            F             Eb            Gm   Eb
World keeps turning in the torch light shadow
F                         Eb        Gm Eb
Fourth Reich in khakis is beckoning
F                         Eb        Gm
Both ends burning to the reckoning
 
[Instrumental]
Gm Bb Cm
Gm Bb Gm
Gm Bb Cm
Gm Bb Cm
 
Gm      Bb                Cm        Gm
Ronnie Reagan must be spinning his grave
Gm              Bb      Cm            Gm
Putin's on the rise, Ukraine's under siege
Gm             Bb        F          Gm        Bb Cm Gm
Fascism's knocking and Trump says "Let them in"
 
Gm           Bb                  Eb
I'd like to tell you there'll be better days
Gm              Bb     Eb   Gm
But optimism's running low today
Gm             Bb              Eb        Gm         Bb   Cm
We're off the deep end with a lifeguard that can't swim
 
Gm
The Klan and the Nazis are taking up the fight
Gm                  Bb               Eb     Gm
Against their own salvation in the saviors light
Gm           Bb         Cm       Gm     Bb  Cm
We're moving into the perilous night, Amen
 
Gm         Bb                 Cm
Flags of oppression are blocking out the light
Gm                 Bb         Cm       Gm
Dismantling The Greatest Generation's fight
Gm            Bb        Cm       Gm       Bb Cm Bb
We're moving into the perilous night, Amen
Gm Bb
Amen
Gm Bb
Amen
 
[Outro]
Gm Bb
Eb Bb Gm
Eb Bb Gm Dm Gm
F Eb Gm