When The Frayed Wind Blows chords by Matt Pless

Chords with lyrics

[Verse]
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If it starts with an explosion
    DmDm
Do you end it with a bang?
     E MajorE
First the whistles start a blowin'
     A minorAm
Then the guilty finally hang

    A minorAm
Theres a storm on the horizon
    DmDm
And the waters on the rise
     E MajorE
We're watching history repeatin'
    A minorAm
With the changin' times

    A minorAm
The figureheads keep talking
      DmDm
But they're buried in the sand
   E MajorE
Everyone is pointing fingers
   A minorAm
Everybody plays their hand

   A minorAm
The fix is in, the game is rigged
   DmDm
The pawns are polarized
     E MajorE
You can either pick a side
     A minorAm
Or think outside the picket lines

[Pre Chorus]
     FF
I wonder, is this a revolution
C majorC
Or just mass confusion?
   E MajorE
When every voice is trying to scream
   A minorAm
The loudest for equality
   DmDm
While we argue strategy
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Culture and philosophy
    E MajorE
People die in city streets
        A minorAm
All paved with blood and poverty

     FF
The powers with a chosen few
  C majorC
Desperation's just a tool
   E MajorE
That crooked corruption use
  A minorAm
To keep the private prisons full
   DmDm
diamond pockets lined with profits
   A minorAm
Earned from broken lives
     E MajorE           A minorAm
Misled to pledge by one discrimination under God
I'm sayin

[Chorus]
FF         C majorC
stop the world, i wanna get off
    G+G            A minorAm
everything's on fire and it's falling apart
     FF
so if we can't turn back
    C majorC
can we change the course
     G+G     FF   G+G   A minorAm
when the fury of the frayed wind blows

[Verse]
   A minorAm
The preachers sell salvation
    DmDm
To the faithful on their knees
   E MajorE
Some prey upon our need and want
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For something to believe

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And some have spun the doctrines
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Holy guide toward paradise
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To justify injustices and centuries of genocide

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Surrender to your temples
    DmDm
To your alters or your shrines
  E MajorE
The weapons used by shepherds
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So the sheep will keep in line

  A minorAm
Conflicting congregations
    DmDm
Thinking only of themselves
    E MajorE
If thats the path to heaven
    A minorAm
Hate to see the road to hell

[Pre Chorus]
  FF
I tell ya' they take a vision
  C majorC
make religion, cause division
     E MajorE
Keep you vacant and complacent
   A minorAm
And dependent on a system

  A minorAm
By creating ways to seperate
 DmDm
Utilizing class and race
  E MajorE
Prejudice perpetuates
    A minorAm
And keeps monopolies in place

     FF
Trickle up or trickle down
     C majorC
Stack or spread the wealth around
    E MajorE
Someones hope is runnin' out
     A minorAm
While fortune feeds a bank account
  DmDm
Empty promise politicians
   A minorAm
Pander to the poor
       E MajorE
While there's money used for funding
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Phony wars on foreign shores

FF         C majorC
stop the world, i wanna get off
       G+G
Cause they're loading up the bullets
      A minorAm
And they're dropping the bombs
    FF          C majorC
The propaganda beats to the narrative drums
     G+G     FF   G+G  A minorAm
when the fury of the frayed wind blows

[Verse]
   A minorAm
The criminals in congress
     DmDm
They ain't got no ground to stand
    E MajorE
They're building walls and borders
   A minorAm
Up around the stolen land

  A minorAm
A augmentedA legacy of liberty
   DmDm
Thats how the story goes
   E MajorE
But conquerers rewrote the past
  A minorAm
To suit the status quo

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So is it institutions
    DmDm
Or the state of human kind
   E MajorE
That leads to some exalted
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Over thousands left behind

    A minorAm
They'll push you to you're limit
   DmDm
But in turn, they'll push their luck
    E MajorE
Cause sleeping giants riot
      A minorAm
When they've finally woken up

[Pre Chorus]
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Because they're buying your silence with those shiny advertisments
   E MajorE
They lie and cheat and steal
      A minorAm
And tax your habits so you'll finance
     DmDm
What they hide away behind the scenes
A minorAm
Cover over underneath
E MajorE
Population Explotation
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Victimized by vanity

 FF
Faces in a magazine
  C majorC
Pictures on a pixel screen
 E MajorE
Set a lofty standard
    A minorAm
That disintigrates your self esteem
  FF
Race to chase a plastic dream
  C majorC
Red carpets and Limousines
 E MajorE
Blinded and distracted by
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The flashbulbs of celebrity

[Verse]
     DmDm
But just beyond the limelight
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After fame has run it's course
    E MajorE
They'll throw you to the lions
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While a sold out crowd will roar

[Chorus]
FF         C majorC
stop the world, i wanna get off
       G+G
Cause there's bodies lying
           A minorAm
breathless, bleeding, piling up.
   FF
they shook the bottled Rage
     C majorC
now it's bound to erupt
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when the fury of the frayed wind blows

[Verse]
    A minorAm
You can think yourself in circles
    DmDm
But the answers never clear
     E MajorE
Is there safety with surveillance?
     A minorAm
Is there freedom without fear?

  A minorAm
Unravel and untangle
    DmDm
All you thought you understood
   E MajorE
And question everything
     A minorAm
Until you question why you should

   A minorAm
We'll change the world with flowers
     DmDm
Or we'll change the world with guns
    E MajorE
We'll plant a seed or dig a grave
   A minorAm
Before its said and done

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But if we come together
    DmDm
All for one and one for all
  E MajorE
Resistence rises up
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Sure as an empire will fall

[Pre Chrous]
    FF
So ill just work toward the future
   C majorC
May it crumble for the better
   E MajorE
Where tyrannical oppressors
     A minorAm
Are just shadows we remember
  DmDm
No judgment based on color
    A minorAm
Or your lover or your gender
  E MajorE
Dismantle older models
     A minorAm
So they cant be reassembled

[Verse]
    A minorAm
But the day the tables turn your way
   DmDm
Watch out for a twist of fate
     E MajorE
Careful not to stumble and become
  A minorAm
The very thing you hate

      A minorAm
Search for something comforting
     DmDm
Seek out something innocent
      E MajorE
But you'll never have those eyes
       A minorAm
That look at life that way again

     A minorAm
So you can take the high road
    DmDm
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
       E MajorE
But you fight fire with fire
   A minorAm
When you're going down in flames

[Chours]
FF         C majorC
stop the world I wanna get off
       G+G
Cause we're at each other's throats
      A minorAm
and now it's choking my heart
     FF
so we can burn the earth
  C majorC
or extinguish the torch
     G+G     FF   G+G  A minorAm