Colors on the Map

from Covert Overtures by Dan Dectis

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This track is especially pertinent in 2020, however I wrote this song in 2012 or 2013. It is one of the oldest songs on the album! But I feel like the message is timeless. We're less different, we're more the same. Eliminate the enmity and it's love that remains.

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[Intro] 2x [ E - F#m - A - E ]
[Verse]
E F#m A E
/ All these lines these colors on the map
E F#m A E
They serve to arbitrarily widen the gap
E F#m A E
/ We’re less different, we’re more the same
E F#m A E
Eliminate the enmity and see what remains

[Interlude on Intro]
[Verse2]
/All these names, categories to use
Subject to subjectivity, as if that were news
/More semantics, gymnastics and turns
Distracting demographics now and nobody learns

[Prechorus]
C#m D
/ But I know it’s not as simple as that
A E
You can’t erase these emotions / with hard cold facts
C#m D A E
/ I know you can’t erase the pain / With a sappy song and cliched refrain

[Interlude on Intro]
[Chorus]
B E
/But maybe we could all feel good for tonight
B
/ Tellin you, I’m pretty sure what’s been ailin you
A E
Will still be ‘round / In the morning

[Verse 3]
/ All these days all these rivers to cross
You can chase what’s been forgotten, You can chase what’s been lost
/ Or instead you can turn ahead
/ And think of happy accidents and where they have lead
I said, all these words motivational prayers
/ They’re about as useful as puttin on airs
/ Just pretend, oh lay it on the line
If you fake it till you make it now you’ll be just fine

[Prechorus]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
C#m B A E
/ So set your troubles down, / right there on the ground
B A E
And walk away /just for tonight
B A E
/ Oh walk away with me tonight

[Interlude] 4x | C#m - - - | A - - - | E - - - | B - - - |


Coda (same chords as verse but much slower)
/All these lines all these colors on the map
They serve to arbitrarily widen the gap
/We’re less different, we’re more thee same
If you eliminate the enmity its love that remains
Say you eliminate /the enmity it’s love that remains

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from Covert Overtures, released December 17, 2020
Mastering Engineer: Jonathan Kirchner

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