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Intro 1
(G major) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (C major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (C major) (D major)
(G major)
Verse 1
Children in school (D major)
forced to the desk (C major) (D major) (G major)
Finger the atlas (D major) and study the (C major) text (D major) (G major)
Lies and opin (D major) ion presented
as (C major) fact (D major) (G major)
Taught to accept, (D minor)
and never (D major) to (C major) (D major) (G major) ask
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Verse 2
Those smiling workers in Ladybird books
(D major) They're not picking coffee at all
They're (C major) busy with bricks and mortar
(D major) Building the company wall (G major)
Verse 3
Flickering (D major) pictures hypnotize
(C major) (D major) (G major) We spend our lives (D major) watching
others' (C major) lives (D major) (G major)
Too much watch (D major) ing to realize (C major)
That (D major) this is a (G major) smokescreen
And (D major) this is why people (C major) die (D major)
Verse 4
(G major) Those smiling news presenters
(D major) They're not reading cue-
cards at all
They're (C major) busy with brush
and bucket
(D major) Whitewashing the company wall (G major)
Verse 5
Set yourself (D major) up and play it again (C major) (D major) (G major)
Force the tears (D major) and entertain (C major) (D major) (G major)
Sing about a (D major) world of make-
be (C major) lieve (D major) (G major)
Force this (D minor) char (D major) ity an (C major) d leave (D major)
Verse 6
(G major) Rich people who claim to know
What's wrong with this world
(D major) Can't know anything at all
They're (C major) busy giving the orders
For (D major) us to build their second homes
Verse 7
(G major) Flickering (D major) pictures hypnot (C major) ize
Interlude 1
Flickering pictures hypnotize
(C major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) And
Verse 8
we who take the (D major) orders
(C major) And refuse to question it (D major) (D minor) all
We're (G major) busy with spade and (D major) Bible
(C major) Burying the poor (D major)
(G major) Burying (D major) (C major) (D major) (G major) the poor
Interlude 2
(D major) (C major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (D major)
(A minor) (E minor) (D major) (A minor) (E minor) (D major) (E minor)
(D major) (A minor)
Verse 9
Mass- manufactured and given (E minor) away
Blinkers (D major) to get you through your day
(A minor) So you'll never ever know to what
extent you're involved
(E minor) (A minor) (D major) Easily fooled,
all your problems solved (A minor)
You'll say starvation has (E minor)
nothing to do with you
You saw (D major) it in print, so it must be true
And the (A minor) documentary explained (E minor) it all
It's (D major) a simple matter of
birth control
(A minor)
Verse 10
And if you send a little money (A minor)
you can sleep tonight
Or starve in sympathy on a Limmits Diet
And you know that charity
cures malnutrition
And hunger put the sparkle
back in tele (A minor) vision (E minor)
(D major) Hunger put the sparkle (A minor)
back in (E minor) television
(D major) Hunger put the sparkle back in television
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