((Tuning: Standard tuning, capo 5th fret. This is a finger picking style song,
so you can play it however you'd like (chords are above). After the intro the
finger picking pattern is very similar for the rest of the song. I think all
C chords are played the same with the 3,0h2 3 2p0 (the second C chord here))
C F C G Am
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------0------2------------------------------0---------2--------------|
D|------0h2---------3----3------0h2----2p0-----0-------0------2--------------|
A|---3--------------------3-----3----3------------2------2----0--------------|
E|---------------1--------------------------3--------------------------------|
G F C G
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------0------------2-------------------------0---0---------------------|
D|-----0-----------3--------3----0h2---2p0-------0---------------------------|
A|--------2-----------3------3---3----3--------2-----2-----------------------|
E|---3----------1----------------------------3-------------------------------|
F C
There ain't no reason things are this way.
G Am
It's how they always been and they intend to stay.
G F C
I can't explain why we live this way.
G Strum and rest
We do it every day.
F C
Preachers on the podium speaking of saints.
G Am
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change.
G F C
Old ladies laughing from the fire escape,
G
Cursing my name.
F C
I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same,
G Am
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing,
G F C
You can spend your whole life working for something,
G
Just to have it taken away.
F C
People walk around pushing back their debts,
G Am
Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets,
G F C
Talking about nothing, not thinking about death,
G Am
Every little heartbeat, every little breath.
G F C
People walk a tightrope on a razors edge.
G Am
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons.
G F C
It could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen,
G
Or a thought, or a word, or a sentence.
F C
There ain't no reason things are this way.
G Am
Its how they've always been and they intend to stay.
G F C
I don't know why I say the things I say,
G
But I say them anyway.
Am F, G
But love will come set me free.
Am F G
Love will come set me free, I do believe.
Am F G
Love will come set me free, I know it will.
Am F G
Love will come set me free, yes.
F C
Prison walls still standing tall.
G Am
Some things never change at all.
G F C
Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all.
G
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all.
F C
The wind blows wild and I may move.
G Am
But politicians lie and I am not fooled.
G F C
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit,
G
To argue the truth.
F C
The air on my skin and the world under my toes
G Am
Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes
G F C
Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
G
Love I try to follow.
Am F, G
But love will come set me free.
Am F G
Love will come set me free, I do believe.
Am F G
Love will come set me free, I know it will.
Am F G
Love will come set me freeeee, yes.
F C
There ain't no reason things are this way.
G Am
Its how they've always been and they intend to stay.
G F C Strum through to the end
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every day.
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
************************************
