Key: A minor
Verse 1
Am
C
Am
It's like something just over the horizon,
maybe see what we can find,
Look long and hard,
look near and far,
But above all things remember
always look inside,
Verse 2
C
Am
C
Listen in into these words from a citizen of earths surface,
lets try and
determine the purpose
Meanwhile i'm striving for perfect but homie
always so damn distracted,
Verse 3
want this, love this, be this, buy
This, buy that,
Log in, sign up, tune in, click here,
Verse 4
Tv in your home and your mobile phone
make sure that your never really
Alone
And its pathetic,
like a global epidemic,
So addicted to being connected,
Em
G
F
We now getting updates by the second,
Got us all time wasting,
Am
F
G
Am
But the whole world look,
Verse 5
Am
Post- generation y babies they call them the digital natives,
Their monitors,
This technology kills imagination,
Am
F
Every kids best friend is a computer,
Verse 6
Apathetic future.
Now the whole worlds at your fingertips,
map right down to your street by
G
Am
all so complexified,
Brand names buy ad- space in your mind,
but they'll never get whats
Inside.
Verse 7
Am
I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
G
Am
but I do my best to follow them
In this world of machines,
F
Am
F
All I can offer is these words that I write
Verse 8
Am
Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
but I do my best to follow
G
Am
Them in this world of machines,
G
C
F
we starving for oxygen,
Am
G
Where were you the day that humanity died,
F
G
Am
searching for signs of life to
Reconnect with what's inside
G
Verse 9
Am
C
Somewhere there's a room full of men
in suits looking up at rows of
Terrified by the red in the eyes,
as arrows point down from the pressure
Their under,
C
Am
They say we might drown in our own greediness,
we learn off MTV cribs
Verse 10
smog fills the sky and the cars line up at the servo,
can't be the way it was supposed
Verse 11
To go
F
G
On the nightly news floods and bushfires, earthquakes and tidal waves,
Temperatures rising, army's fighting,
We just trying to get by and occupy
So we change the channel to sex,
drugs and violence program for prime
F
Time,
F
G
voyeurism, as reality TV turns all of
Verse 12
Life into a competition,
Am
Airbrushed magazine pages give us false idols to worship,
Depressed,
we can't live up to picture perfect,
F
G
F
Sometimes I just want to unplug and go back to basics,
My story might have been like
Verse 13
somewhere else in history's pages,
C
sons and daughters of colonialism crossed over water
Just to be making our homes
Am
F
I don't know the plan, i'm just here to play my part,
Path, fork my shit, make my mark,
From the bottom of my heart,
Am
F
Am
I wouldn't know where to start, so advanced
G
From where we started, images of the production line,
Verse 14
Am
I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
G
Am
But I do my best to follow them in this world of machines,
Oxygen,
F
Am
F
All I can offer is these words that I write
G
Verse 15
Am
Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
G
F
we starving for oxygen,
F
G
searching for signs of life to
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