Key: G minor
Intro 1
Ebm
B
Ab
B
Verse 1
B
And then I rose
Ebm
to the top of the world
And I saw that I was blessed
Gb
Ebm
B
I saw that it was built on the backs
of the poor and the oppressed
Gb
Ab
I saw this end less spinning
Ebm
Ab
Of ending up back at the beginning
Db
Gb
B
Of headlong races to where we sat
But oh, the places we could go
Gb
if the world was flat
Ebm
And I was tired and defeated
Gb
B
With nothing turned out as I thought
Ebm
B
But if I always do what
I've always done
Gb
Ab
Then I only get what I always got
Ebm
Ab
I saw the masses yawning stolen breaths
Gb
B
That they might breathe the next
Tall drinks, queen ants,
Gb
and half -mast cigarettes
Ebm
The same lives, the same pain
Lay like embers in the rain
Db
Bbm
I saw all things invisible that bind me
When Lady Luck was smiling
It was that the guy behind me
Green and brown girls of the sea
Bb
Take me, but don't ever wake me
Ebm
You wanna be free
Gb
You wanna be free
Ab
You wanna be free
B
Why are you living in chains?
Ebm
You wanna be free
Gb
You wanna be free
Ab
You wanna be free
B
Why are you living in chains?
Abm
B
You're living in chain s
Gb
You're living in...
Ebm
And I saw my supposed enemy
Gb
Ab
But I looked exactly like him
B
I saw the boat sinking
Ebm
So I got out and learned how to swim
Ab
I saw the sorrow of the centuries
Ebm
Gb
B
And saw first smoke from the stacks
I saw bullets being buried
Ebm
B
in our old man's backs
Ebm
I saw the poetry of the prophet
Db
But they wallpapered over it, they did
The same words written years ago
on the back of my eyelids
Bbm
I saw tax collectors as
national protectors
Bb
Tables being turned,
books being burned
And bodies washing in from the sea
Ebm
You free
Gb
You wanna be free
Ab
You wanna be free
B
Why are you living in chains?
Ebm
You could change it so bad
Gb
We're nothing but a worm
Ab
You want to be free
B
D
Dm
Why are you living in chains?
Ebm
Gb
Ab
Bb
Ebm
Gb
Ab
Bb
Ebm
Gb
You wanna be free, you wanna be free
Ab
You wanna be free,
B
D
Dm
Gm
why are you living in chains?
Bb
You want to be free, you want to be free
C
D
While you're living in chains
Gm
Bb
You want to be free, you want to be free
C
You want to be free,
D
while you're living in chains
Gm
Bb
You wanna be free, you wanna be free,
C
you wanna be free,
D
why are you living in shame?
Gm
Bb
You wanna be free, you wanna be free,
C
you wanna be free
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