Intro: C Em (2x)
C
If pain was a color to paint on you
Em7
Your heart would be the color blue.
Am
Be a gradient from there till your body met your hair
D
Which would remain a silver hue
C
You are the one they call Jesus Christ.
Em7
Who didn't know no rock and roll.
Am
Just a mission and a gun to paint rainbows in Vietnam
D
And a heart that always told you
F C
There's a madness in us all.
F C
There's a madness in us all.
C
So who broke the rules?
Em
Who broke the rules?
Am
Who broke the rules?
F C
They said every one of you will never try to lend a hand
Em7 Am
When the policemen don't understand.
C F
Boys, all you boys
Am G
Think you're so American.
C F
Girls, all you girls
Am G
Yeah you're so American.
C
He may not be born of this land
Em7
But he was born of this world.
Am
He was born of all the mothers and the colors of our brothers
D
And the love that was taught to
C
you by the one they call Jesus Christ.
Em7
He may not know no rock and roll.
Am
There may not be a heaven, or a place of which to send you,
D
But you know in the end
F C
There's a madness in us all.
F C
There's a madness in us all.
C
So who broke the rules?
Em
Who broke the rules?
Am
Who broke the rules?
F C
They said every one of you will never try to lend a hand
Em Am
When the policemen don't understand.
C F
Boys, all you boys
Am G
Think you're so American.
C F
Girls, all you girls
Am G
Yeah you're so American.
F C
There's two eyes for every one of us
Em Am G
But somebody got there first and took them all.
C F
Man, oh man
Am G
You think it's so American
C F
Man, oh man
Am G
Yeah you're so American
F C
There's two eyes for every one of us
Em Am G
But somebody got there first and took them all.
F C
There's two eyes for every one of us
Em Am
But somebody got there first and took them all.