Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
C minorCm Cm G minorGm Gm
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Strange time we're living in, panic and hysteria
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Poor man learn the rich man don't care for ya
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Narcissist mindsets spread like malaria
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Sit back and watch the show
America!
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Britain split through fickle shit
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A augmentedA government of hypocrites
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These counterfeit politicians sit
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In parliament, not adequate
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Needlessly bleeding resources all dry
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Turn a blind eye if it means a pay rise
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Oh what a shame it would be I would die
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If Number 10 Downing Street burned in a fire
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Only joking, only messing, don’t be stressing
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I’m a peaceful adolescent, there’s no need to be unpleasant
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Write my thesis in a rhyme scheme
To analyse the brain
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While my fingers on the trigger of a money game
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Oh rain, rain, rain, rain
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A augmentedA storm it comes our way
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And those who rise through distorted lies
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Poisoning the veins
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But we like to point the blame, blame, blame, blame
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It’s easier to blame
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But point the mirror at ourselves
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We’re all part of this old money game
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Money is a game and the ladder we climb
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Turns a saint into a sinner with his finger in crime
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I'll break it down for you motherfuckers line by line
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This is business economics in a nursery rhyme
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She sells sea shells on a sea shore
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But the value of these shells will fall
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Due to the laws of supply and demand
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No one wants to buy shells 'cause there's loads on the sand
Step 1
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You must create a sense of scarcity,
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shells will sell much better
if people think they’re rare you see
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Bare with me, take as many shells as you can find
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and hide em on an island stock pile em high
until they’re rarer than a diamond
Step 2
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You gotta make the people think that they want 'em
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Really want 'em, really fuckin want 'em
Hit 'em like Bronson
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Influencers, product placement, featured prime time entertainment
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If you haven’t got a shell then you're just a fucking waste man
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3. its monopoly, invest inside some property,
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start a corporation, make a logo, do it properly
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Shells must sell, that will be your new philosophy,
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swallow all your morals they're a poor mans quality
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4. Expand, expand, expand, clear forest,
make land, fresh blood on hand
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5. Why just shells? why limit your self?
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She sells sea shells sell oil as well
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6. Guns, sell stocks, sell diamonds sell rocks
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sell water to a fish, sell the time to a clock
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7. Press on the gas take your foot off the brakes
- run to be the president of the United States
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8. Big smile mate, big wave that's great,
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now the truth is overrated tell lies out the gate
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9. Polarise the people, controversy is the game,
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it don't matter if they hate you if they all say your name
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10. The world is yours , step out on a stage
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to a round of applause , you're a liar, a cheat, a devil, a whore
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And you sell sea shells on the sea shore
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Oh rain, rain, rain, rain
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A augmentedA storm it comes our way
G minorGm
And those who rise through distorted lies
G minorGm
Poisoning the veins
C minorCm
But we like to point the blame, blame, blame, blame
C minorCm
It’s easier to blame
G minorGm
But point the mirror at ourselves
G minorGm
We’re all part of this old money game
C minorCm Cm G minorGm Gm
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