5168 Days
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Intro
| E |
[Verso 1]
B G#m F# E
Five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight days of the UK ruled by a Tory government
B G#m F# E
Five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight days of failure reinforced by lies and corruption
B G#m
First, they gave you Brexit and the cost of life, took away your protest rights
F# E
COVID took a ton of lives, called the youth a "sacrifice"
B G#m
NHS waiting lists, making friends with racists
F# E B
No policy on poverty, crackdown on refugees
N.C. G#m
The proverbial doormat they'll step on to get votes back
F# E
Put 'em in a boat, stat, change, don't approach that
[Verso 2]
B G#m
What's the trick? Call a genocide a conflict
F# E
Now every politician's fucking in on it
B G#m
Fourteen yars, a hundred sixty-eight months
F# E
Five thousand, on hundred and sixty-eight nights
B G#m F# E
Five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight days in which the UK has consistently declined. Why?
[Verso 3]
B G#m
David Cameron, what was happening
F# E
When you created your own fucking nightmare?
B G#m
I think you were quite aware Brexit wasn't necessary
F# E
You only cared about your own legacy
B G#m
Now your legacy proudly stands as nothing but
F# E
Instigating ten years of lies in government
[Verso 4]
B G#m
Theresa May, with all said and done
F# E
How the fuck did you contribute to the EU referendum?
B G#m
You could not, would not, finish at last
F# E
The country was left to the whims of a psychopath
B G#m
Boris Johnson, goes without mention
F# E
He'd lie about breakfast if it meant that he got seconds
B G#m
Did you smile at the face of death
F# E
As your cronies described it as "unfortunate excess"?
[Verso 5]
B G#m
Were you systematically withdrawn
F# E
Or were you really as thick as you let on?
B G#m
Liz Truss stumbled in not long after
F# E
Her fifty days serving ended in disaster
[Verso 6]
B G#m
Rishi Sunak, where do we start?
F# E
With another fucking narcissist who could've been smart
B G#m
Sun-actually, factually, swiftly elected
F# E
As a billionaire posh boy with zero perspective
B G#m
Lest we forget all the cunts that you gave a job
F# E
Braverman, Gove, Matt Hancock, and Rees-Mogg
B G#m
Every single sycophant who stood idly by
F# E
Or directly threw logs at a country on fire
[Verso 7]
B
Are we overreacting a bit?
G#m F# E
If we were in power, would we know how to manage it?
B G#m
Or are we missing a point when we ask such a question?
F# E
Is knowing how to lead about kowledge or intention?
B B G#m G#m
Oxford, master's, politics degree
F# E
But jokes about the food that the poor kids eat
B G#m
Great Britain has been passed through the fingers of thieves
F# N.C.
For five thousand, one hundred and sixty-eight fucking days
N.C.
What have we achieved?
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