Chords with lyrics
This is a great tune by a fine Canadian musician. It's from his album The Park Avenue Sobriety Test.
This man deserves more recognition.
This version is based off of this performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKC7_xW6S2Y
Watch video to get intro.
Enjoy!
Key of Am, Standard Tuning
Captain of Industry ? Joel Plaskett
Riff A minorAm E minorEm G+G DmDm G+G
Verse
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Floodlights shine from motion detectors
FF C majorC FF C majorC
They know that we?re out here, they know that we?re out here
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
The truth is a minefield and they?re the defectors
FF C majorC
They know that we?re out here
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Beyond the frame and outside the margins
FF C majorC FF C majorC
Don?t know where we?re going but I know that we?re gone
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
We scour the city, the streets and the gardens
FF C majorC
And everything?s wrong
Chorus
FF C majorC FF C majorC
The captains of industry are driving us home
DmDm A minorAm FF G+G
Selling us lies, tapping our phone
FF C majorC FF E minorEm
Shaking us down and we don?t even know it
G+G FF
If you want real love, show it
Riff A minorAm E minorEm G+G DmDm G+G
Verse 2
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
Some people got luck, some people got money
FF C majorC FF C majorC
Some people get stuck, a stick in the spokes
A minorAm C majorC G+G A minorAm
If you got nothing they look at you funny
FF C majorC
Oh, this ain?t a joke
Chorus
FF C majorC FF C majorC
The captains of industry are driving us home
DmDm A minorAm FF G+G
Selling us lies, tapping our phone
FF C majorC FF E minorEm
Shaking us down and we don?t even know it
G+G FF
If you want real love, show it
G+G FF
If you want real love, show it
G+G FF
If you want real love, show it
Riff A minorAm E minorEm G+G DmDm G+G