Hợp âm More Whitewashing

Lời & hợp âm

[Intro 1]
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[G]

[Verse 1]
Children in [D]school
forced to the [C]desk[D][G]
Finger the [D]atlas and study the [C]tex[D]t[G]
Lies and opin[D]ion presented
as [C]fact[D][G]
Taught to ac[Dm]cept,
and [D]never [C]to [D]ask[G]

[Verse 2]
Those smiling workers in Ladybird books
[D]They're not picking coffee at all
They're [C]busy with bricks and mortar
[D]Building the company [G]wall

[Verse 3]
Flickering [D]pictures hypnotize
[C]We [D]spe[G]nd our lives wat[D]ching
[C]others' [D]lives[G]
Too much [D]watching to [C]realize
That [D]this is [G]a smokescreen
And [D]this is why people [C]die[D]

[Verse 4]
[G]Those smiling news presenters
[D]They're not reading cue-
cards at all
They're [C]busy with brush
and bucket
[D]Whitewashing the company [G]wall

[Verse 5]
Set yourself [D]up and play it [C]again[D][G]
Force the [D]tears and [C]entertain[D][G]
Sing about a [D]world of make-
[C]be [D]lieve[G]
Force this [Dm]char [D]ity and [C]leav[D]e

[Verse 6]
[G]Rich people who claim to know
What's wrong with this world
[D]Can't know anything at all
They're [C]busy giving the orders
For [D]us to build their second homes

[Verse 7]
[G]Flickering [D]pictures hypnotize[C]

[Interlude 1]
Flickering pictures hypnotize
[C][G][D][C][D]
[G]And

[Verse 8]
we who take [D]the orders
[C]And refuse to question [D]it [Dm]all
We're [G]busy with spade and [D]Bible
[C]Burying the [D]poor
[G]Burying [D]the[C] po[D]or[G]

[Interlude 2]
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[Am][Em][D][Am][Em][D][Em]
[D][Am]

[Verse 9]
Mass- manufactured and given [Em]away
[D]Blinkers to get you through your day
[Am]So you'll never ever know to what
extent you're involved
[Em]Easi[Am]ly fo[D]oled,
all your problems [Am]solved
You'll say starvation [Em]has
nothing to do with you
You [D]saw it in print, so it must be true
And the [Am]documentary ex[Em]plained it all
[D]It's a simple matter of
birth control
[Am]

[Verse 10]
And if you send a little [Am]money
you can sleep tonight
Or starve in sympathy on a Limmits Diet
And you know that charity
cures malnutrition
And hunger put the sparkle
back in tele[Am]vision[Em]
[D]Hunger put the [Am]sparkle
back in [Em]television
[D]Hunger put the sparkle back in television