Chords for When the Frayed Wind Blows

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If it starts with an explosion, [Dm] do you end it with a bang?
[E] First the whistles start a [Am] blowin', then the guilty finally hang.
There's a storm on the horizon, [Dm] and the water's on the rise.
[E] We're watchin' history [Am] repeatin' with the changin' times.
The figureheads keep [Dm] talkin', but they're buried in the sand.
[E] Everyone is pointin' fingers, [Am] everybody plays their hand.
The fixes in the game is [Dm] rigged, the pawns are polarized.
[E] You either pick a side or [A] think outside the picket lines.
[F] I wonder, is this a [C] revolution or just mass confusion?
[E] When every voice is tryin' [Am] to scream the loudest for equality.
[Dm] While we argue [Am] strategy, culture, and philosophy.
[E] People die, city [Am] streets all paved with blood and [Dm] poverty.
Powers with a chosen [Am] few.
Desperation's just [E] a tool that agents of corruption [Am] use to keep the jails and prisons [F] full.
Diamond pockets lined with [Am] profits earned from broken lives.
[E] Misled to pledge by one [A] discrimination under God.
I'm [F] sayin', stop the world, [C] I wanna get off.
[G] _ Everything's on fire [Am] and it's fallin' apart.
So if we [F] can't turn back, [C] can we change the course?
[G] When the fury of the brain [Am] wind blows. _
_ _ _ The preachers sell salvation [Dm] to the faithful on their knees.
[E] Some prey upon our need and [Am] want for something to believe.
And some have spun the doctrines, [Dm] holy guides to paradise.
[E] To justify [Am] injustices and centuries of genocide.
Surrender to your temples, [Dm] to your altars or your shrines.
[E] The weapons used by shepherds [Am] so the sheep will keep in line.
_ Conflicting congregations [Dm] thinking only of themselves.
[E] If that's the path to heaven, [Am] hate to see the road to hell, I'll [F] tell ya.
They take a vision, [C] make religion, cause division.
[E] Keep you vacant and complacent [Am] and dependent on a system.
[Dm] By creating ways to separate, [Am] _ utilizing class and [E] race.
Prejudice [Am] perpetuates and keeps monopolies in [Dm] place.
Trickle up or trickle [Am] down, stack or spread the wealth [E] around.
Someone's hope is running [Am] out while fortune fills a bank [F] account.
Empty promise [Am] politicians pander to the poor.
[E] While there's money used for funding [Am] phony wars on foreign shores.
I'm [F] sayin', stop the world, [C] I wanna get off.
[G] Cause they're loading up the bullets [Am] and they're dropping the bombs.
The [F] propaganda beats [C] to the narrative drums.
[G] When the fury [Dm] of the frayed [Am] wind blows. _ _ _ _
The criminals in Congress, [Dm] they ain't got no ground to stand.
[E] They're building walls and borders [Am] all around the stolen land.
A legacy of liberty, [Dm] that's how the story goes.
[E] But conquerors rewrote the [Am] past to suit the status quo.
So is it institutions [Dm] or the state of humankind?
[E] That leads to some exalted [Am] over thousands left behind.
They'll push it to your limit, [Dm] but in turn they'll push their [E] luck.
Cause sleeping giants riot [A] when they finally woken up.
[F] Because they're buying your silence [C] with those shiny advertisements.
[E] They lie and cheat and steal and [Am] tax your habits so you'll finance.
[Dm] What they hide away behind the [Am] scenes, cover over [E] underneath.
Population [Am] exploitation, victimized by vanity.
[Dm] Faces in a [Am] magazine, pictures on a pixel [E] screen.
Set a lofty standard [Am] that disintegrates your self [Dm]-esteem.
Race to chase a plastic [Am] dream, red carpets and [E] limousines.
Blinded and distracted [Am] by the flash bulbs of celebrity.
[F] But just beyond the limelight [Am] after fame has run its course.
[E] They'll throw you to the lions [A] while a sold out crowd will roar.
I'm [F] saying, stop the world, [C] I wanna get off.
[G] Cause there's bodies lying breathless, [A] bleeding, piling up.
They [F] shook the bottle of rage, [C] now it's bound to erupt.
[G] When the fury of the frayed [Am] wind blows. _
_ _ _ You can think yourself in circles, [Dm] but the answer's never clear.
[E] Is there safety with surveillance?
[Am] Is there freedom without fear?
Unravel and untangle [Dm] all you thought you understood.
[E] And question everything [Am] until you question why you should.
We'll change the world with flowers [Dm] or we'll change the world with guns.
[E] We'll plant a seed or dig a [Am] grave before it's said and done.
But if we come together [Dm] all for one and one for all.
[E] Resistance rises up shore [Am] as an empire will fall.
So [F] I'll just push towards a future, [C] may it crumble for the better.
[E] Where tyrannical oppressors [A] are but shadows we remember.
[Dm] No judgment based on color [A] or your lover or your gender.
[E] Dismantle older models [Am] so they can't be reassembled.
[Dm] But the day the tables turn your [Am] way, watch out for a twist of [E] fate.
Careful not to stumble [Am] and become the very thing you [Dm] hate.
Seek out something comforting, [Am] search for something innocent.
[E] But you'll never have those [Am] eyes that look at life that way again.
[F] So you can take the high road, [Am] nothing ventured, nothing gained.
[E] But you'll fight fire with fire [A] when you're going down in flames.
I'm [F] saying stop the world, [C] I wanna get off.
[G] Cause we're at each other's throats and [Am] now it's choking my heart.
So [F] we can burn the earth [C] or extinguish the torch.
When [G] the fury of [F] the [G] frayed [Am] wind blows. _
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