Key: F minor
Verse 1
B
B5
B
No choices of our own, we've
Don't know our own interests,
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C
never had the chance to discover what inspires us
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B5
Told that what we're taught in school is all
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C
that's worthy to pursue
Verse 2
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B5
C
Interests outside of it have no value,
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B5
Spend all our time dedicated
Verse 3
C
B
No work today, it's bright outside
D
C
B
but you don't know what to do now
C5
B
D
that you have your own free time
C
B
The tv has always been
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B
and keep you from asking ""what
D
C
do I really like?""
Verse 4
C5
C
B
D
C
So many years of buying the lies
C5
B5
that through ""production"" is the only
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C
way we can feel satisfied
C5
B5
If you're not earning money for the system,
you're wasting your time
C
B
B5
but what answers will we find if
C5
B
we ask why?
Verse 5
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D
C
cren't we just wasting our time for someone
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C5
B
C5
B
D
else just like slaves?
C
B
C5
B
D
C
Fooling ourselves that we need it, that we should enjoy it,
B
D
or at least accept it
C
B
B5
(each day on the job
we're being robbed!)
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D5
They keep our food un der
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B5
B
C5
lock and key
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C5
B
B5
to for ce us to operate
D
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B5
B
D
this machine
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B
Slaves were used to build
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B
B5
this civilization
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D
C5
B
B5
surely our rulers didn't
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D
C5
B5
want to end this tradition
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D
It
Verse 6
D5
B5
B
B5
B
D5
C5
just changed forms,
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C5
B
B5
B
B5
D
C5
but we're still under their control!
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C5
C
B
B5
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C
C5
Chattel slavery got too costly to provide food
B5
B
B5
B
B5
D
C
and shelter for their property
B5
B
B5
[Now they] leave that up to us
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C
and make us dependent
C5
B5
B
B5
C5
they don't worry about us running away because we
Interlude 1
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B5
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Verse 7
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C5
Is this all there is to life?
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D
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C5
B5
B
Is this supposed to give
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C5
me a purpose?
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C5
B5
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I would rather die
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B5
than submit to that lie!
Outro 1
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