Intro:
G Am
G Am
[Verso 1]
Am N.C.
Depends on where you’re born if you are green or blue.
C N.C.
It depends upon your class if you’re a Tory too.
Em N.C.
It depends upon your money if Labour get your vote.
F N.C.
It's a cross inside a box or a hand around your throat
Am N.C.
There's guns or schoolbooks, hamburgers, or kale
C N.C.
A flat from the council or a mansion up for sale
Em N.C.
It’s a break in the country or another weekend shift.
F N.C.
It’s a cottage for your holiday or a high rise with no lift.
Am
It’s shoot them all with gunboats or save the refu--gees.
C
It’s a microwave kebab or fried halloumi cheese.
Em
It’s a massive SUV just to get your kids from school.
F
It’s a missed welfare appointment because the bus was full
Am
It’s a family on Christmas, it’s a family that’s torn.
C
It’s a fruitful loving marriage, it’s watching too much porn
Em
It’s paying someone else to get the stress nodes out your back.
F
It’s paying someone else for a little bit of crack
Am
It’s anti-Semitism or Israel is wrong.
C
It’s fill your face with botox to release your latest song
Em
It’s the bottom of your bank account, it's a little put away.
F
It’s the Billy Graham Rule or everyone is gay
[Refrão]
G F Am
Oh, the system isn't broken, it was always built this way
Interlude: Am
[Verso 2]
Am
Black lives matter or All lives matter too.
C
It’s call for a ceasefire, from the arab or the jew
Em
And it’s fighting over oil, it’s fighting over trees.
F
And what about my car, what about the bees
Am
The plastic in the ocean, all the plastic straws.
C
It’s building walls for strangers or immigration laws
Em
It’s writing party slogan on the broad side of a bus.
F
It’s a jam making communist who says he’s one of us
Am
And it's North and South Korea, fight over a line.
C
We order from Ikea, our furniture in pine
Em
We watch a documentary on how to save the whales.
F
But the only thing we help are the Netflix global sales
Am
And animals are equals, my dog it should have rights.
C
Then breed them to be pretty for the sake of Facebook likes
Em
It’s save the rainforest, it’s leave my chocolate spread.
F
It’s save the orangutans, while Syrian kids lay dead
Am
It’s raise our income taxes, buy a second home.
C
It’s pay the electric bill, or a new villa in Rome
Em
The Queen or the Pope, Grass Court or Clay.
F
The end of British Rule or up the IRA
[Refrão]
G F Am
Well, the system isn't broken, it was always built this way
Interlude: Am
[Verso 3]
Am N.C.
Life starts at conception, it’s my body, it’s my choice.
C N.C.
It’s silent acceptance of another angry voice
Em N.C.
It’s a lifetime of renting, it's a gift from Mum and Dad.
F N.C.
It’s a life of medication, or embracing you're just sad
Am N.C.
It’s always being faithful or a little on the side.
C N.C.
It’s a working girl and John, or a new husband and bride
Em N.C.
It’s tearing down a statue and throwing it in the sea.
F N.C.
Or it’s playing college football or refuse to take a knee
Am N.C.
Or it’s reading the Bible, chopsticks in your ears.
C N.C.
It’s always to be kind, or it’s I hate Britney Spears
Em N.C.
It’s fairtrade coffee, it’s drinking only soy.
F N.C.
Or it’s caring far too much if it’s a girl or it’s a boy
Am
Or it’s buy your shoes from sweatshops, march against the war.
C
It’s giving homeless money without caring what it’s for
Em
Or it’s sneering at a junkie, it’s two bottles of wine.
F
It’s a goodbye kiss for work and pretending that you're fine
Am
And you send your kids to Eton, to teach them not to care.
C
Then learn how to distract us, convince us they’re not there
Em
We'll all fight each other, and scream to have our say.
F
Making enemies of friends, when we are all the same
[Refrão]
G N.C. G F N.C. Am
Well, the system isn't broken, Well, it's always built this way
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