Andrew Jackson Jihad - Small Red Boy Chords

[Intro]
N.C.
Am Am Am E


[Verse]
Am                  E             Am      E7
I found a small red boy inside my tummy
     C                 G                   C
With three dollars in change and a Milky Way Lite
      E                                         Am
In my occasional pursuit to find something more meaningful
    F                                 G
Than yet another word that rhymes with die
  Am              E             Am     E7
I cut him out and put him on my table
    C                 G                    C
His shallow breathing chest would fall and rise
     E                                  Am
His 'South of Heaven' shirt was way too big for him
    F                                    G
His horns were long and sharp and then he opened up those eyes that said
   C           G            Am         Am
"I am, I am, I am, I am the truth."


[Interlude]
Am E7


[Verse]
  Am                E            Am     E7
I showered him with love and adulation
C              G               C
One day he was just as tall as me
  E                                   Am
I showed him all the books that I was raised on
     F                         G
Your Madeleine L'Engle and D'Aulaires' Mythologies
         Am                 E                 Am        E7
And in a montage that could warm the heart of Hitler
  C                G              C
I raised him up so proud and motherly
  E                              Am
I swore that I was glancing in a mirror
            F                                   G
When in the language that I taught him, oh god, he began to speak, he said
   C           G            Am
"I am, I am, I am, I am the truth"
   C           G            Am      Am
"I am, I am, I am, I am the truth"


[Interlude]
Am E7


[Bridge]
        F                       G
And his eyes became a beacon, an LCD projector
      E                             F
Broadcasting all my memories in a clear and vivid picture
    F                              G
His tongue became a staircase, his uvula -- the knocker
      E                              F
Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future
    F                               G
His throat became a hallway with a thousand baby pictures
    E                            F
And I became forgiveness, I transformed into the closure that I lost
F                       G       
   When I learned about the tragedy of all of us 
  E                                F
I lost it when I learned about the tragedy of all of us
  F                         G
Incorrigible illness in the loved ones hiddenn out of us
  E                                F
I lost it when I learned about the tragedy of all of us
  F                                G
I walked through the hallways to a room of only mirrors
E                             F
Reflecting me in bondage so I watched myself get freer
  F
I let my horns grow longer
   G
I observed my skin get redder
   Am
My soul became a hammer
   C
I started to feel better
   F
My hatred to turned to pity 
   G
My resentment blossomed flowers
   C                E
My bitter tasting candy
   Am           G
My misery was power
    F
The truth in me grew brighter
   G
My nature and my nurture 
        C
No more shame
        G
No more fear
        Am
No more dread
  F           G            C
I am, I am, I am, I am the truth.