Chords with lyrics
Tuning: EADGBE
Think the major #9 chord sound (both major and minor third in most C majorC chords)
Choruses based on power chords
F/AF/A = 58xxxx/x03xxx/x03211
Verses:
xxxx58 xxxx68 xxx8x8
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
ORDER: I V1 PC1 C1 V2 PC2 C2 BB INT V3 FC1 FC2 O
INTRO:
C minorCm AbAb | Fm7Fm7 |
C majorC Ab6Ab6 | Fm7Fm7 |
C majorC Ab6Ab6 | Fm7Fm7 |
C majorC Ab6Ab6 | Fm7Fm7 |
VERSE 1:
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Free - dom of choice to use your voice
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Not something that I've ever seen enforced
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Free to be meek, but not to speak
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Free to watch all of your rhetoric repeating
PRE-CHORUS 1:
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Free to decide to just let things slide, I'm free to be
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
However you want me
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Bad news to - day, sorry to say
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
You've been declined an open mind
CHORUS 1:
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
So you can shut your mouth, shut it down
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Has the point gotten through?
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Shut your mouth, keep it down
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
VERSE 2:
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
When you're not here, it would seem so clear
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Be what you like, see what you like and have no fear, but like
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Big kids at school, consumed by cool
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Trained to spit on all exceptions to the rule now
PRE-CHORUS 2:
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
But inside your mind, you feel so confined, it's hard to breathe
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
You can't get no release
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Boxed in and left out, you wanna shout
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
You wanna rant, you know you can't
CHORUS 2:
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
So you just shut your mouth, shut it down
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Has the point gotten through?
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Shut your mouth, you keep it down
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Oh boy, there's no tellin' you
BRIDGE:
Ebadd9Ebadd9 Dmadd4
Hot today, what you say
Ebadd9Ebadd9 Dmadd4
Now you got your point made, I think you made a mistake
Ebadd9Ebadd9 Dmadd4
Leaving this up to fate for you to say
Ebadd9Ebadd9 G+G
That ok, ok, ok
INTERLUDE:
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
VERSE 3:
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Free - dom of choice to use your voice
C7C7 Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Not something that I've ever seen enforced, but I'm
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
Boxed in and left out, you wanna shout
C majorC Ab6Ab6 Fm7Fm7
You wanna rant, you know you can't
FINAL CHORUS 1:
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
So you just shut your mouth, shut it down
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Has the point gotten through?
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Shut your mouth, you keep it down
C minorCm AbAb F minorFm
Oh boy, there's no tellin' you
FINAL CHORUS 2:
C minorCm AbAb F/AF/A AbAb
Shut your mouth, shut your mouth now
C minorCm AbAb F/AF/A
Do you know who you're talkin' to?
AbAb C minorCm AbAb F/AF/A AbAb
Shut your mouth, you keep it down
OUTRO:
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7
Oh-oh-ohh-ohh, oh-oh-ohh-ohh
C minorCm AbAb Fm7Fm7