This Is Not Utopia chords by The Offspring

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
| F#m |


Verse 1:
            F#m   D  A
Like a shot without a warning
    E        F#m   D  A  E
Lies a life that's left behind
   F#m        D        A
And though I try, it's something I just can't unsee
   E       F#m   D  A
It's burned into my mind
    E       F#m   D  A
And I wake up in the morning
       E      F#m   D  A  E
News keeps flashing on my eyes
    F#m        D
These dying streets are bruised and beaten
   A       E
And riot flags are waving
 F#m       D
Poor and weak, we extend this streak
    A         E
These lives we could be saving
 D
Life is cheap I sit and weep
     Bm
'Cause there's just no mistaking

Chorus:
C#m
Oh, this is not utopia
   F#m    D     A     E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
     F#m    D     A      E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
   F#m    D     A      E     F#m
The roots, the roots, the rules don't matter anymorе
 E
This is not utopia
   F#m    D     A     E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
     F#m    D     A      E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
   F#m   D    A     E     F#m
And you, and you, and you don't matter anymore


Verse 2:
             F#m  D  A
The better angels of our nature
        E      F#m  D  A  E
Well, they've gone away to hide
  F#m   D
Brutality I can't unsee
    A         E       F#m  D  A
These pictures are just burned into my mind
     E       F#m  D  A
It's commotion in slow motion
    E    F#m  D  A  E
It's humanity denied
  F#m        D
A violent race, punch in the face
   A         E       F#m  D  A  E
With all this hate how can we all survive?


Pre-Chorus:
      D
And if a change is coming
        E
What makes it take so long?
      D
And if a change is coming
       C#m   E
Why sing the same old song?


Chorus:
 E
This is not utopia
   F#m    D     A     E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
     F#m    D     A      E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
   F#m    D     A      E     F#m
The roots, the roots, the rules don't matter anymorе
 F#m
This is not utopia
   F#m    D     A     E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
     F#m    D     A      E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
   F#m   D    A     E     F#m
And you, and you, and you don't matter anymore


Post-Chorus:
 F#m
This is not utopia
   F#m    D     A     E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
     F#m    D     A      E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
   F#m   D    A     E     F#m
And you, and you, and you don't matter anymore
 F#m
This is not utopia


Outro:
    D      E
So how long must we wait?
    D       E
Until love conquers hate?
        D
And heal these hearts
        C#m  E   F#m
'Cause it all starts right here