When The Frayed Wind Blows chords by Matt Pless

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

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Theres a storm on the horizon
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And the waters on the rise
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We're watching history repeatin'
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With the changin' times

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

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

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

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

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

[Verse]
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The preachers sell salvation
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To the faithful on their knees
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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
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To your alters or your shrines
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The weapons used by shepherds
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So the sheep will keep in line

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Conflicting congregations
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Thinking only of themselves
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If thats the path to heaven
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Hate to see the road to hell

[Pre Chorus]
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I tell ya' they take a vision
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make religion, cause division
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Keep you vacant and complacent
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And dependent on a system

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By creating ways to seperate
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Utilizing class and race
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Prejudice perpetuates
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And keeps monopolies in place


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

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

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

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A legacy of liberty
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Thats how the story goes
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But conquerers rewrote the past
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To suit the status quo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Unravel and untangle
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All you thought you understood
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And question everything
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Until you question why you should

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

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

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

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

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

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

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