A World That We Never Made chords by Dear Landlord

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:
B
G# E
B  G# E

Verse 1:
B
Don't fuck with perfection, this really is a masterpiece
    G#            F#            E
The brainchild of assholes with everything to lose
B
Hellbent on forcing the burden from religion
     G#                F#                  E      F#
That demands if you're fucked, you'll stay fucked forever

Chorus:
B      F#                C#m                E       B
Try to kill the sound of all your hopes and dreams
          F#                C#m            E
It's easy street inside the gears of their machines
         B          C#m        E
Yeah, we do what we can to get by

Verse 2:
B
Like holding back the urge to walk into traffic
    G#                                                       F#
And when the worker's rights start cutting into the profits, what's left?
                 E                        B
Eleven hour days leave you just enough to forget them
B
It's just a choice between a gun and a bottle
G#
Don't know which one you'll reach for when you punch out tomorrow
G                            E
So now get busy dying or get busy forgetting
           F#
There's no way to win in a world that you never made

Solo:
B  G# E
B  G# G

Bridge:
B                           D#
It's reliable failure we've all come to know
       G#         F#         E
At the end of the day misery is all alone
B
The American dream is just saltpeter and shame
              G#        F#         E          F#
And now we're desperate grabbing a fistful of rain

Chorus:
B      F#                C#m                E       B
Try to kill the sound of all your hopes and dreams
          F#                C#m            E
It's easy street inside the gears of their machines
         B          C#m
Yeah, we do what we can
           G#          E          F#
Yeah, just do what you can to get by

Verse 3:
    B                     F#
And stay right where they want you
              G#
There to hold onto
                 F#
Things that will haunt you
                        B
Night after night after night
                      F#
Stay right where they want you
                            G#
You might believe that it's all true
                    F#
Can you ignore what will haunt you
             E
Every single night?

Interlude:
E  D# B
F# G# E

Bridge:
        B                     F#
All our fears just to keep us down
                G#                  E
There's nothing here on our side of town
          B                F#
Nothing's saved, it's been replaced
         G#                                   E
Now it's buried in the rubble of a world that we never made
        B                F#
All our fears to keep us down
                G#                  E
There's nothing here on our side of town
          B                F#
Nothing's saved, it's been replaced
         G#                                   E
Now it's buried in the rubble of a world that we never made

Solo:
         B             F#           G#                E
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-4-3-4-------4-4-3-4------4-4-3-4-----------------------------|
D|---------4-------------4------------4-4-2-1-4-1-4-2-4-2-1-------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------2-----|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|

Outro:
E