Chords for Failed State

_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ When you're [C] working two jobs and living in a tent
When a house costs a million [Am] bucks and you can't pay the rent
When [C] politicians say they'll help but it keeps getting worse
Each time the landlord lobby [Am] pulls the strings of the purse
When the [G] human right to housing isn't even part of the [D] debate
[Am] You know you're living in [Bm] a [A] failed state _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ When [A] millions of citizens are spending half their lives
Locked up in a prison [Am] for trying to survive
When laws must be broken just to have a place to stay
When the prisons pay the senators to look the other way
If you [Em] have to be a criminal to put food upon your [Am] plate
You know you're living [Bm] in fails
[A] _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ [A] When you're facing climate breakdown when [Am] trees are all on fire
When half the country's underwater when a climate change denier _
[C] Runs the country
The opposition party votes for oil rigs and [Am] pipelines
This is not so [E] much a country as it is a corporation
[G] Buckling under [Am] its weight, you know you're living in [Bm] a failed [A] state _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[A] When your nation is an empire facing daily blowback
And the only thing your leaders [Am] can do is attack
_ [A] Bipartisan consensus that we need to spend
700 billion [Am] before the [E] year's end
On a [G] military budget to make [A] America [C] great
You know you're [Bm] living in a failed [Am] state _
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_ _ _ When almost every day some psycho with a gun
Has to open fire on a crowd before it's done
When a [A] music festival becomes a free fire zone
And all they can say [Am] is it's okay now he was acting alone
Buy [Em] some armor, pray to God, and hide behind [Am] a gate
You know you're living [Bm] in a failed [Am] _
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_ [Bm] _ [A] state _ _ _ _
You [Am] know you're living [Bm] in a failed [A] state
[Em] _