[Verse]
Am
If it starts with an explosion
Dm
Do you end it with a bang?
E
First the whistles start a blowin'
Am
Then the guilty finally hang
Am
Theres a storm on the horizon
Dm
And the waters on the rise
E
We're watching history repeatin'
Am
With the changin' times
Am
The figureheads keep talking
Dm
But they're buried in the sand
E
Everyone is pointing fingers
Am
Everybody plays their hand
Am
The fix is in, the game is rigged
Dm
The pawns are polarized
E
You can either pick a side
Am
Or think outside the picket lines
[Pre Chorus]
F
I wonder, is this a revolution
C
Or just mass confusion?
E
When every voice is trying to scream
Am
The loudest for equality
Dm
While we argue strategy
Am
Culture and philosophy
E
People die in city streets
Am
All paved with blood and poverty
F
The powers with a chosen few
C
Desperation's just a tool
E
That crooked corruption use
Am
To keep the private prisons full
Dm
diamond pockets lined with profits
Am
Earned from broken lives
E Am
Misled to pledge by one discrimination under God
I'm sayin
[Chorus]
F C
stop the world, i wanna get off
G Am
everything's on fire and it's falling apart
F
so if we can't turn back
C
can we change the course
G F G Am
when the fury of the frayed wind blows
[Verse]
Am
The preachers sell salvation
Dm
To the faithful on their knees
E
Some prey upon our need and want
Am
For something to believe
Am
And some have spun the doctrines
Dm
Holy guide toward paradise
E Am
To justify injustices and centuries of genocide
Am
Surrender to your temples
Dm
To your alters or your shrines
E
The weapons used by shepherds
Am
So the sheep will keep in line
Am
Conflicting congregations
Dm
Thinking only of themselves
E
If thats the path to heaven
Am
Hate to see the road to hell
[Pre Chorus]
F
I 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 seperate
Am
Utilizing class and race
E
Prejudice perpetuates
Am
And keeps monopolies in place
F
Trickle up or trickle down
C
Stack or spread the wealth around
E
Someones hope is runnin' out
Am
While fortune feeds a bank account
Dm
Empty promise politicians
Am
Pander to the poor
E
While there's money used for funding
Am
Phony wars on foreign shores
[Chorus]
F C
stop the world, i wanna get off
G
Cause they're loading up the bullets
Am
And they're dropping the bombs
F C
The propaganda beats to the narrative drums
G F G Am
when the fury of the frayed wind blows
[Verse]
Am
The criminals in congress
Dm
They ain't got no ground to stand
E
They're building walls and borders
Am
Up around the stolen land
Am
A legacy of liberty
Dm
Thats how the story goes
E
But conquerers rewrote the past
Am
To suit the status quo
Am
So is it institutions
Dm
Or the state of human kind
E
That leads to some exalted
Am
Over thousands left behind
Am
They'll push you to you're limit
Dm
But in turn, they'll push their luck
E
Cause sleeping giants riot
Am
When they've finally woken up
[Pre Chorus]
F C
Because they're buying your silence with those shiny advertisments
E
They lie and cheat and steal
Am
And tax your habits so you'll finance
F
What they hide away behind the scenes
C
Cover over underneath
E
Population Explotation
Am
Victimized by vanity
F
Faces in a magazine
C
Pictures on a pixel screen
E
Set a lofty standard
Am
That disintegrates your self esteem
F
Race to chase a plastic dream
C
Red carpets and Limousines
E
Blinded and distracted by
Am
The flashbulbs of celebrity
F
But just beyond the limelight
C
After fame has run it's course
E
They'll throw you to the lions
Am
While a sold out crowd will roar
[Chorus]
F C
stop the world, i wanna get off
G
Cause there's bodies lying
Am
breathless, bleeding, piling up.
F
they shook the bottled Rage
C
now it's bound to erupt
G F G Am
when the fury of the frayed wind blows
[Verse]
Am
You can think yourself in circles
Dm
But the answers never clear
E
Is there safety with surveillance?
Am
Is there freedom without fear?
Am
Unravel and untangle
Dm
All you thought you understood
E
And question everything
Am
Until you question why you should
Am
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 grave
Am
Before its said and done
Am
But if we come together
Dm
All for one and one for all
E
Resistence rises up
Am
Sure as an empire will fall
Am
So ill just work toward the future
Dm
May it crumble for the better
E
Where tyrannical oppressors
Am
Are just shadows we remember
[Pre Chorus]
F
No judgment based on color
C
Or your lover or your gender
E
Dismantle older models
Am
So they cant be reassembled
Dm
But the day the tables turn your way
Am
Watch out for a twist of fate
E
Careful not to stumble and become
Am
The very thing you hate
F
Search for something comforting
C
Seek out something innocent
E
But you'll never have those eyes
Am
That look at life that way again
Dm
So you can take the high road
Am
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
E
But you fight fire with fire
Am
When you're going down in flames
[Chours]
F C
stop the world I wanna get off
G
Cause we're at each other's throats
Am
and now it's choking my heart
F
so we can burn the earth
C
or extinguish the torch
G F G Am
when the fury of the frayed wind blows
