Violence Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[Am]Violence is the fruit of
unreached understanding
That flowers from the lips of scoundrels
[G]It [Am]is a forest so dense
and rooted in our past
It tempts us to become lost in its darkness
And stinks like the piss test you
were forced to take
Just before you were told
[G]that you didn't meet
[Am]The standards of integrity that this or
[G]ganization [Am]strives to maintain

[Verse 2]
[Am]Why are there no folk songs
about ATM machines
That produce the likeness of
the blazer of the trail of [G]tears
[Am]Issuing overdraft fees from
beyond the grave
Prison TV shows in an endless [G]queue
[Am]Con taining the robust
nourishment of a commissary
This is why we cannot afford
to [G]close an open [Am]casket
You protect no one by
obscuring the mirror
That reflects our own problematic reality
Allow me to ponder the role I play
In this pornographic
spectacle of black [G]death
At [Am]once a solution and a problem
[G]A

[Verse 3]
[Am]cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Violence is daily life
[G]A

[Verse 4]
[Am]cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept

[Verse 5]
Violence is daily life
[Am]
Violence is daily life
Violence happens every day
It's hard to get [G]used [Am]to getting
used [G]to violence[Am]

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 6]
[Am]Savage is my name because Savage
is how I feel
When the radio wakes me up with
the words "suspected gunman"
My name is a warning for the acts
you are about to witness
Which contain images [G]that
some viewers [Am]may find disturbing
My name belongs to us all
So if they ask for yours [G]give them mine
[Am]My name is a threat

[Verse 7]
[Am]Riot is an unfinished grave that was dug
[G]to de[Am]posit undepleted anger
Like barrels of uranium leaking
into something sacred
It [G]is a word to [Am]use to
delegitimize your unrest
And to make your resistance

[Verse 8]
into an overreaction
[Am]The pink tube of paint called flesh
Used in portraits of chairmen
of boards and
Men [G]who clean [Am]up streets named
after those who fought
For erasing the lives they now
claim to [G]protect[Am]
What is an up and coming neighbor
[G]hood and where is [Am]it coming from?

[Verse 9]
A [Am]cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Violence is daily life

[Verse 10]
A [Am]cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret
Violence is daily life
A promise a pact that the
world never kept
Violence is daily life

[Verse 11]
What's wrong with [Am]the air you breathe?
The water you drink?
[G]Vi olence [Am]is so omnipresent
So ingrained in your daily reality
You forget to notice it happens [Dm]every[Am]day

[Outro 1]
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