Tono: B
Introducción: E E/Eb E/B G#m E E/Eb E/B G#m E E/Eb E/B C#m E E/Eb E/B G#m E
E B
Anyone absolutely certain that they understand everything
C#m E/Eb E
Hasn't lived enough to know it's impossible to come close
E B
Seek the good in humanity, right? Even if it's a struggle most times
C#m E/Eb E
Is hate natural or were we trained to fight like some pitbulls?
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
We've been locking jaws into each other's backs well before Christ
B7+
Is that what it takes to survive?
F# G#m E
Who taught us how to survive?
B7+
Fuck your neighbor to survive
F# G#m E
Eat your neighbor to survive
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
We were hiding our faces long before pandemics arrived
B
Many have broken backs working for some charismatic demigods
C#m E/Eb E
Who raised minimum wages to build company loyalty
N.C.
B
Bosses profits grew off of lost lives
C#m E/Eb E
As they smiled for media commending philanthropy
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
We've been glorifying wealth and greed and sociopathy
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
It was packaged and sold to us as the American dream
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
Splintered working class people to weaken our communities
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
Fed us our sibling's meat and convinced us that it was healthy
B7+
Then told us that we were born free
F# G#m E
We were born free to kill each other as we please
B7+
We were born free
F# G#m E
We were born free to spread incurable disease
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
So much history manipulated by mythology
B F#m C#m E
B F#m C#m E
B F#m
The crowds are growing larger
C#m
Frothing at the mouth
E
Gasping for air
B F#m
Dogs barking in unison
C#m
Bursting throats open
Em
Though no one hears
B
We are all
F#m E
Entrapped by fear
B F#m E
Of satan and god and fascist billionaires
B F#m E
Of gangs, pedophiles and radicals with beards
C#m
It's hard to calm down all of them
A7+
Reactionary friends
C#m
Making funeral arrangements
E F#
50 years before their deaths
B
I know it's true
F#m E
The world we knew
N.C.
B
And it's painful
F#m E
To face what's new
C#m A7+
We have been grossly underfed for domesticated pets
C#m
Craving love and attention
E F#
Satisfaction's hardly met
B
I know it's true
F#m E
The world we knew
N.C.
B
And it's strange
F#m E
To face what's new
B
So each generation
F#m E
Complains of the youth
B
Saying things were much better then
F#m E
Please show more proof
B F#m C#m E
B F#m C#m E
E E/Eb E/B G#m
E E/Eb E/B C#m
E E/Eb E/B G#m
E
E C#m G#m F#
E Eb
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
B
Am I wasting my breath
E
Trying to say something?
F#
When apathy's held me in
G#m E
Captivity
B
With the rest of the pets
E
Growling at nothing
F#m G#m
As long as we're fed and entertained
E
We'll sleep
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
Our brains all crave dopamine
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
Pounded by information shared endlessly
F#
Between ephemeral memes
G#m
Sexual fantasies
E
Conspiracy theories
N.C.
F#
That were killed by police
G#m E
Trained to protect the power of ruling elites
N.C.
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
Just more people screaming screaming screaming
B
Are we wasting our years
E
Putting faith in something
F# G#m E
When we've always torn apart all that we've loved?
B
From our hearts to our arms
E
To movements, to families, to each other
F# G#m E
To the planet we all live on
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
This ain't no song about peace
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
Those are easy to sing but hard to believe
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
It's tough to trust human beings
G#m B/Bb B C#m E
But don't blame us for how we were trained to be
F# G#m E
We were only born free
F# G#m E
We were only born free
F# G#m E
We were only born free
G#m B/Bb B C#m E