Nevermore

Intro C5 [Verse 1] C5 Driving down blistered severe The rapacious maw of our despair Black dog follows, strip club echoes C5 The raven's shadow across the ghetto [Verse 2] C5 Up the hill in an unmarked grave The mother of American darkness lays Liberty or death to start the battle D5 There's nonesuch place for human chattel Chorus C5 Hanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the ravens scream Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it [Verse 3] C5 Across the devil's own half acre There's rusted gallows for an angel The ghosts that built this city scream C5 Of commerce and inhumanity [Verse 4] Cancer rides the freeway's edge Falling statues and cigarettes Bullets whip the screaming kettle D5 As teargas cloaks the monumental Chorus C5 Hanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the ravens scream Hanging by a threat C5 So go and choke on it [Verse 5] C5 Chained beneath a parking lot Savaged on the auction block In antebellum geography C5 Rage, horror, history Bridge D5 Chorus C5 Hanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the ravens scream Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it Outro C5 Nevermore Nevermore