Reach The Top chords by M. Lockwood Porter

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Verse 1
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Reach the Top
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It's a psychopathic isola
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tion daydream come alive
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The worker drones still serve their queen
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though she's destroyed the hive
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Instead there's bigger houses
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and some better cars to drive
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A screen to feel connected
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A pill to kill the pain
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A ladder to convince you that your
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climbing's not in vain
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A mortgage and a mouth to feed
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that keep you up at night
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You may reach the top one day, they say,
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if you play your cards right
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Verse 2
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First, they took the farms,
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and then they built the factories
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But then they took the factory jobs
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and they sent them overseas
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They raised all the tuitions and told us all
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to get degrees
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Now we're deeper into debt
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Deeper in despair
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Deeper underwater and
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we're running out of air
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But if you want to see the rainbow,
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you must put up with the rain
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You may reach the top one day,
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they say. There's no need to complain
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Verse 3
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There's something percolating in
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the poorest parts of town
There's new cafes and restaurants an
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d new money all around
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And everywhere you go,
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you hear the same familiar sound
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From Detroit to San Francisco
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From Brooklyn to the South
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In everything that goes into or comes
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out of your mouth
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In the shirt upon your back or the
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very bedroom where you sleep
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You may reach the top one day, they say,
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but it ain't coming cheap

Interlude 1

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The suicide is

Verse 4
sprawled upon
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the bloody bathroom floor
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A policeman shot another boy
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and no one knows what for
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I try to listen to the wind blow, but you
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can't hear it anymore
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There's only smoke and static
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There's only noise and fear
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There's only so much talking until
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you tune out all you hear
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There's only buried bodies trying
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to shout up through the dirt
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You may reach the top one day, they say,
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but someone's getting hurt
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Verse 5
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Our new path to heaven's
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paved with hundred dollar bills
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And a hundred ways to justify
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the people that we kill
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We have now more than ever,
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but that won't satisfy us still
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Every drop of oil
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Every drop of blood
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Everyone who fights back lying
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facedown in the mud
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Everything belongs to us no mat
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ter what the price
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You may reach the top one day, they say,
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but you'll have to sacrifice