C#mF#mG#mE
I think I know what you mean but watch what you say
C#mF#mG#mE
'Cause they'll be trying to knock you down in some way.
C#mF#mG#mE
Sometimes it feels like the world is falling asleep.
C#mF#mG#mE
How do you wake someone up from inside a dream?
C#mF#mG#mE
Your mind would wander and search for its place in the night.
C#mF#mG#mE
Your body followed this feeling like following light.
EC#mBE
Once that your music was born it followed you 'round
EC#mBEF#m
And then it gave your activities meaning and let you be loud.
G#mA
You're sad but you smile.
EF#m
It's not in your eyes.
G#m
Your eyeballs don't change.
AEG#m
It's the muscles around your eyes.
EG#m
An egg to fertilize,
EG#mA pulse to stabilize,
EG#mA body to deodorize,
EG#mA life to scrutinize,
EG#mA child to criticize,
EG#m
Young adults to modernize,
EG#m
Citizens to terrorize,
EG#m
Generations to desensiti-.
C#mF#mG#mE
Your dreams are sweet and obsessed and you're overworked.
C#mF#mG#mE
You're overtaken by feelings of being overlooked.
C#mF#mG#mE
How disappointed would D.I.D.I.P.P. be
C#mF#mG#mE
To see such power in our hands all wasted on greed?
C#mF#mG#mE
I am a prisoner to instincts or do my thoughts
C#mF#mG#mE
Just live as free and detached as boats to the dock?
EC#mBE
Just like when music was born and detached from your heart.
EC#mBEF#m
Is your free time to free minds or for falling apart?
G#mA
Night after night
EF#m
You turn out the light.
G#mA
You don't fall asleep right away.
EG#m
"Are we... are we done?"
EG#mA desk to organize,
EG#mA product to advertize,
EG#mA market to monopolize,
EG#m
Movie stars to idolize,
EG#m
Leaders to scandalize,
EG#m
Enemies to neutralize,
EG#m
No time to apologize,
EG#m
Fury to tranquilize,
EG#m
Weapons to synchronize,
E
Cities to vapori-.
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.