Key: E
Introduction:
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C#m F#m G#m E
I think I know what you mean but watch what you say
C#m F#m G#m E
'Cause they'll be trying to knock you down in some way.
C#m F#m G#m E
Sometimes it feels like the world is falling asleep.
C#m F#m G#m E
How do you wake someone up from inside a dream?
C#m F#m G#m E
Your mind would wander and search for its place in the night.
C#m F#m G#m E
Your body followed this feeling like following light.
E C#m B E
Once that your music was born it followed you 'round
E C#m B E F#m
And then it gave your activities meaning and let you be loud.
G#m A
You're sad but you smile.
E F#m
It's not in your eyes.
G#m
Your eyeballs don't change.
A E G#m
It's the muscles around your eyes.
E G#m
An egg to fertilize,
E G#m
A pulse to stabilize,
E G#m
A body to deodorize,
E G#m
A life to scrutinize,
E G#m
A child to criticize,
E G#m
Young adults to modernize,
E G#m
Citizens to terrorize,
E G#m
Generations to desensiti-.
C#m F#m G#m E
Your dreams are sweet and obsessed and you're overworked.
C#m F#m G#m E
You're overtaken by feelings of being overlooked.
C#m F#m G#m E
How disappointed would D.I.D.I.P.P. be
C#m F#m G#m E
To see such power in our hands all wasted on greed?
C#m F#m G#m E
I am a prisoner to instincts or do my thoughts
C#m F#m G#m E
Just live as free and detached as boats to the dock?
E C#m B E
Just like when music was born and detached from your heart.
E C#m B E F#m
Is your free time to free minds or for falling apart?
G#m A
Night after night
E F#m
You turn out the light.
G#m A
You don't fall asleep right away.
E G#m
"Are we... are we done?"
E G#m
A desk to organize,
E G#m
A product to advertize,
E G#m
A market to monopolize,
E G#m
Movie stars to idolize,
E G#m
Leaders to scandalize,
E G#m
Enemies to neutralize,
E G#m
No time to apologize,
E G#m
Fury to tranquilize,
E G#m
Weapons to synchronize,
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Cities to vapori-.