Key: F minor
Verse 1
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No choices of our own, we've
Don't know our own interests,
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A
never had the chance to discover what inspires us
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G#5
Told that what we're taught in school is all
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A
that's worthy to pursue
Verse 2
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G#5
A
Interests outside of it have no value,
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G#5
Spend all our time dedicated
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outside of those narrow guidelines, can
Verse 3
A
G#
No work today, it's bright outside
B
A
G#
but you don't know what to do now
A5
G#
B
that you have your own free time
A
G#
The tv has always been
A
G#
and keep you from ask ing ""what
B
A
do I really like?""
Verse 4
A5
A
G#
B
A
So many years of buy ing the lies
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G#5
that through ""production"" is the only
B
A
way we can feel satisfied
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G#5
If you're not earning money for the system,
you're wasting your time
A
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G#5
but what answers will we find if
A5
G#
we ask why?
Verse 5
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B
A
cren't we just wasting our time for someone
G#
A5
G#
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G#
B
else just like slaves?
A
G#
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G#
B
A
Fooling ourselves that we need it, that we should enjoy it,
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B
or at least accept it
A
G#
G#5
(each day on the job
we're being robbed!)
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B5
They keep our food un der
A
G#5
G#
A5
lock and key
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A5
G#
G#5
to for ce us to operate
B
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G#
B
this machine
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G#
Slaves were used to build
B
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G#
G#5
this civilization
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B
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G#
G#5
surely our rulers didn't
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B
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G#5
want to end this tradition
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B
It
Verse 6
B5
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G#
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G#
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A5
just changed forms,
A
A5
G#
G#5
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B
A5
but we're still under their control!
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A5
A
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G#
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A
A5
Chattel slavery got too costly to provide food
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B
A
and shelter for their property
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G#
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[Now they] leave that up to us
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A
and make us dependent
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G#5
G#
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A5
they don't worry about us running away because we
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Is this all there is to life?
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B
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A
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G#
Is this supposed to give
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A
A5
me a purpose?
A
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A
I would rather die
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G#5
than submit to that lie!
Outro 1
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