How The World Works chords by Bo Burnham

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro: Bo Burnham:
E minorEm     A augmentedA
Hey, kids
             D MajorD       D MajorD B/Eb
Today, we're gonna learn about the world


🎸 Verse 1: Bo Burnham:
E minorEm        A augmentedA
The world that's around us
     D MajorD
Is pretty amazing
        D MajorD
But how does it work?
        B/Eb
It must be complicated
E minorEm        A augmentedA       D MajorD
The secret is the world can only work
        D MajorD    B/Eb
When everything works together

🎸 Verse 2: Bo Burnham:
 E minorEm        A augmentedA
A majorA bee drinks from a flower
          D MajorD
And leaves with its pollen
        D MajorD
A augmentedA squirrel in a tree
            B/Eb  E minorEm
Spreads the seeds that have fallen
      A augmentedA
Everything works together
D MajorD      B/Eb     E minorEm    A augmentedA
The biggest elephant, the littlest fly
D MajorD      B/Eb       E minorEm      A augmentedA
The gophers underground, the birds in the sky
Gb/Bb B minorBm     Daug/Bb    D/AD/A     D(b5)/Ab
And every single cricket, every fish in the sea
G+G            E MajorE       A augmentedA
Gives what they can and gets what they need


🎸 Chorus: Bo Burnham:
D MajorD        E MajorE
That is how the world works
G+G        E minorEm  A augmentedA
That is how the world works
D MajorD
From A augmentedA to Zebra
    Gb7Gb7     B minorBm
To the worms in the dirt
G+G   D/AD/A
That's how it works

🎸 Interlude 1: Bo Burnham & Socko:
D MajorD   Gbm/Db
Hey everyone
            Bm7Bm7
Look who stopped by to say hello
Gbm/Db
It's Socko
D MajorD
Hey!
     Gbm/Db
Where you been, Socko?
     Bm7Bm7                Gbm/Db
I've been where I always am when you're not wearing me on your hand
D MajorD           Gbm/Db        Bm7Bm7
In a frightening, liminal space between states of being
      Gbm/Db
Not quite dead, not quite alive
   D MajorD               Gbm/Db
It's similar to a constant state of sleep paralysis
Bm7Bm7                       Gbm/Db
Socko, we were just talking about the world and how it works
D MajorD          Gbm/Db
Boy, that sounds complicated!
                   Bm7Bm7
Do you have anything you'd want to teach us about the world?
      Gbm/Db                 D MajorD
I wouldn't say anything that you probably haven't already said yourself
    Gbm/Db
I don't know about that, Socko
E MajorE            A augmentedA
How about you give it a try?
Alright!

🎸 Verse 3: Socko:
E minorEm          A augmentedA            D MajorD
The simple narrative taught in every history class
        D MajorD         B/Eb E minorEm
Is demonstrably false and pedagogically classist
          A augmentedA          D MajorD
Don't you know the world is built with blood?
       D MajorD     B/Eb
And genocide and exploitation
E minorEm          A augmentedA           D MajorD
The global network of capital essentially functions
         D MajorD          B/Eb E minorEm
To separate the worker from the means of production
     A augmentedA           D MajorD
And the FBI killed Martin Luther King
D MajorD    B/Eb    E minorEm     A augmentedA
Private property's inherently theft
  D MajorD     B/Eb     E minorEm       A augmentedA
And neoliberal fascists are destroying the left
Gb/Bb B minorBm    Daug/Bb    D/AD/A    D(b5)/Ab
And every politician, every cop on the street
       G+G              E MajorE     A augmentedA
Protects the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite


🎸 Chorus: Socko & Bo Burnham:
D MajorD        E MajorE
That is how the world works
Really?
G+G        E/Ab A augmentedA
That is how the world works
D MajorD               Gb7Gb7    B minorBm
Genocide, the Natives say you got to it first
G+G   D/AD/A
That's how it works


🎸 Interlude 2: Bo Burnham & Socko:
D MajorD       Gbm/Db
That's pretty intense
  B minorBm
No shit
         Gbm/Db
What can I do to help?
       D MajorD
Read a book or something, I don't know
Gbm/Db            Bm7Bm7
Just don't burden me with the responsibility of educating you
Gbm/Db
It's incredibly exhausting
D MajorD
I'm sorry, Socko
          Gbm/Db       Bm7Bm7
I was just trying to become a better person
           Gbm/Db              D MajorD
Why do you rich fucking white people insist on seeing every
        Gbm/Db              Bm7Bm7       Gbm/Db
socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization?
         D MajorD
This isn't about you
          Gbm/Db            Bm7Bm7
So either get with it, or get out of the fucking way
Watch your mouth, buddy
    Gbm/Db        D MajorD
Remember who's on whose hand here
But that's what I--
         Gbm/Db
Have you not been fucking listening?
B minorBm
We are entrenched in--
Alright, alright
   Gbm/Db
Wait, no please!
I don't wanna go back, please
D MajorD
I can't go, I can't go back
N.C.
Please, please, I'm sorry
Are you gonna behave yourself?
Yes
Yes, what?
Yes, sir
Look at me
Yes, sir
That's better


🎸 Chorus: Bo Burnham, Socko & Both:
D MajorD        E MajorE
That is how the world works
G+G        E/Ab   A augmentedA
That is how the world works
D MajorD
I hope you learned your lesson
Gb7Gb7     B minorBm
I did and it hurt
G+G   D/AD/A
That's how it works