Tax Free

Joni Mitchell

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Tax Free Transcription and chart Peter Kruger |Aadd9         |             |Dm6/A          |               | |/            |/         |/          |               | Verse #1          Aadd9                Front rooms Back rooms                Slide into tables                Crowd into bathrooms                Joke around Cheap talk            A/G                                       Aadd9                Deep talk Talk talk talk around the clock                Crawl homeLie down               Teeth chatter Heart pounds               I don’t feel so good I don’t feel so good               Push a button to escape Pre-Chorus               Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"               There’s evil in this land                "Rock and roll music!")              "Cast down these dope-fiends              And there noisy bands!"Damn their souls!" Chorus                       Esus4               E              Preacher preaching love like vengeance              Preaching love like hate          Esus4                      E              Calling for large dona tions              Promising es tates        Esus4                   E              Rolling lawns and angel bands              Behind the pearly gates       Esus4                   E              He will have his in this life                  Dsus4/E                    D               But        yours will have to wait                   Aadd9              He’s immaculately tax free          ("Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ...")     Dm6/F             Aadd9           Tax free           ("Hundreds and millions of dollars")           Tax free                  ("A hundred billion dollars!              And who is paying the price?           Who who          ("Your children are") verse2        Aadd9             Pissed off Jacked up            Scream into the mike            Spit into the loving cup            Strut like a rooster march like a man            God’s hired hands and the devil bands                                   Aadd9            Packing the same grand stands            Different clothes            ("Pot in their pockets!")            Different hair            ("Sexually active")            Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air            Theatre of anguish            Theatre of glory            God’s hired hands and the devil bands                             Aadd9            Oh come let us a dore---ME! Pre-chorus           Lord there’s danger in this land           You get witch-hunts and wars           When church and state hold hands Fuck it Chorus     Esus4                  E          Tonight I’m going dancing          With the drag queens and the punks          Esus4       E          Big beat de liver me          From this sanctimonious skunk    Esus4                  E          We’re no flaming angels  Dsus4/E                     D          And he’s not heaven sent      Esus4                        E          How can he speak for the Prince of Peace          When he’s hawk-right mili tant                   Aadd9                                  And he’s       immaculately          tax free          ("Our nation has lost its guts!")          Save me          ("Our nation has lost its strength")           Tax free          ("Our nation has whimpered and cried")           Save me                             Aadd9                           ("And petted the Castros")           Tax free          ("The Khomeinis’ and the Kaddafis’")           Save me                         G/A  Aadd9                           ("For so long")           Tax free           ("That we don’t know how to act like a man")          Save me               "I think that we should turn the United States Marines             loose on that little island south of Florida and             stop that problem!"             "I am preachin’ love I am!"

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empty heart empty heart C, D, F#, A, Am7, F, G, Am11, Em7, E, Bb, B, Bm7, Cmaj13
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empty heart empty heart E, E4, A, B, C
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empty heart empty heart B, Emaj7, Amaj7, Db7, F#, E, F#7
empty heart empty heart E, C, A, G, D, B, F, Am, Dm
Cette chanson aborde les tensions entre la spiritualité sincère et l'hypocrisie de certaines pratiques religieuses. Elle dépeint un monde où des prédicateurs prêchent l'amour tout en faisant des appels à des dons colossaux pour leur propre enrichissement. À travers des métaphores percutantes, elle critique la manipulation des croyances par des figures d'autorité qui, bien qu'elles prônent la paix, sont souvent motivées par des intérêts personnels et matériels. La dichotomie entre les "groupes de Dieu" et ceux du "diable" reflète aussi le combat intérieur que chacun peut ressentir dans une société divisée par des idéologies contradictoires. Le tout se déroule dans un contexte où les valeurs semblent avoir perdu leur sens, sombrant dans la confusion et le désespoir.