Irony. Utility. Pretext. chords by Algiers

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Intro 1

They said it's not enough

Verse 1

Just to shoot us down

It's a sound that's systematized

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Verse 2

Yeah, it's a noise just to drown us out

But when your time has come

We'll all be there

Just to watch you fall

And then one by one

Verse 3
All the parasites will just fall off
A 
You put your vote in a ballot box
This one's marked UNDP
Inscribe your tyrant's name in blood
Am 
Choice is the guillotine

Verse 4
A 
We'll put our faith into Afro Pop
F 
A 
In a decolonized context
Espouse the aesthetes
Contempt for ethos
Am 
Irony, utility, pretext
A 
Am 
But all you just say

Verse 5
G 
G 
Embrace primitive man
Am 
G 
Am 
(You say) destroy primitive man
A 
Am 
(You say) embrace primitive
G 
Am 
man
A 
(You say) with our art,
Am 
G 
A 
we'll transcend again
Am 
(You say) destroy primitive
G 
Am 
man
A 
(You say) embrace primitive
Am 
G 
A 
man
(You say) destroy primitive
Am 
G 
Am 
man
A 
Am 
(You say) with our art,
C 
Am 
we'll transcend again

Interlude 1

Verse 6
Am 
You put your hand out to shake
Then they export you in chains
You fought for centuries for change
And they gave you more of the same
A 

Verse 7
Am 
They swapped the dogs and the cross
For sublimated forestalling
A 
Am 
A 
They changed the names of the boss
Am 
A 
Am 
A 
Until you forgot who it was
Am 

Interlude 2

Verse 8
C 
Find your favorite color
F 
G 
Em 
So you can wash it out in your hymns
A 
Am 
C 
Correcting primitive cracks
into straight lines
F 
G 
Superiority is born again

Verse 9
A 
Am 
C 
We'll put our faith into Afro Pop
F 
G 
In a decolonized context
A 
Am 
Espouse the aesthetes
C 
Contempt for ethos
F 
G 
Irony, utility, pretext
Em 
G 
But all you can say is Embrace

Verse 10
Am 
C 
primitive man
F 
G 
(You say) destroy prim
A 
itive man
Am 
(You say) embrace prim
C 
F 
itive man
(You say) with our art,
G 
we'll transcend again
Am 
(You say) destroy primitive man
C 
F 
(You say) embrace prim
G 
Am 
itive man
C 
(You say) destroy primitive man
F 
(You say) with our art,
G 
we'll transcend again