Cognitive Dissonance Blues
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From "'Cause I realized that I'd forgotten again" to "Etc., etc., etc." uses muted strumming. The chords are taken (for the most part) from Chordify.
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[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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So I was in the supermarket the other day,
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Picking up stock cubes for this vegetable curry that I survived on for most of 2020,
N.C.
And I, and I, and I flipped them over
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To look at the ingredients on the back—
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No idea why, I should know what's in them by now—
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But as soon as I did, I remembered why I don't do that anymore,
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And I felt my mood just nosedive.
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'Cause I realized that I'd forgotten again
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About palm oil,
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Which—and I don't intend to go on and on about it—
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But which is used in 50% of all packaged products on the market,
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It's leading to mass deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia,
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Destroying the environments of endangered animals on a massive scale,
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Etc., etc., etc.
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You know the rest,
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We all do,
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I am
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Tired of hearing about it, to be honest.
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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And I realized at that moment
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That I have been actively putting this shit out of my head
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Whenever I can
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Because, to be honest, to do otherwise
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Is to wander from aisle to aisle in a hollow daze
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Remembering that, in the 90s,
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Coca-Cola was hiring far-right paramilitary forces
Em
To assasinate trade union leaders in Colombia
Em
To keep their manufacturing costs as low as possible;
Em
Remembering that Nestle's CEO
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Believes access to drinking water shouldn't be a human right
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As they drain and bottle billions of gallons of the world's freely available water for
D
resale.
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It makes you tired, y'know.
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It makes you wonder what's the point.
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And so, fuck it,
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I pick up my Coke
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I pick up my Oreos
Em
I pick up my stock cubes
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And I put the truth away again for a while,
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Which, every time I do it,
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Feels just a little more like a tacit nod of approval.
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
D
Here's a short horror story for you:
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It is conceivable, at least,
D A
That the distant stars that inspired Jules Vern and Gene Roddenberry
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Are orbitted by planets that are intellectually empty.
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No galaxy-spanning civilizations or glittering cities or Dyson spheres,
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No one blinking back at us through alien telescopes
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Wondering if they're alone out here,
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Just us.
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Humanity,
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The smartest
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Wisest
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Kindest
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Of all the creatures
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In God's deep blue infinity.
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And personally,
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I'm still trying to reconcile that possibility
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With the aforementioned list of crimes we commit against ourselves,
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Our political systems that incentivise corruption,
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Healthcare systems that punish anyone guilty
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Of being both sick and poor at once
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And all of those things underpinned by a rusted, groaning economic system
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That can only function when lubricated with blood.
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If there really is no one out there,
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No one smarter or wiser or kinder than us;
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If this,
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He says, gesturing wildly at the entirety of existence,
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Really is as good as it gets,
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Maybe
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This is an opportunity for us, y'know,
A Em
To do the humane thing for once
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As a novelty.
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Do it quickly,
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Do it cleanly,
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And together.
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Our first and last act as a truly global society
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To surge forward and embrace autoerotic euthanasia,
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Fill our coat pockets with gold bullion
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And walk hand-in-hand into the ocean singing
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Kumbay-fucking-ya.
[Instrumental]
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Woah-oh-oh
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Oh, oh-oh
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[Verse 4]
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I've been hearing more and more of this disingenuous eco-facist
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Bullshit over the last few years,
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And I understand it.
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I understand the despair when we mighty look upon our works
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But I am sick to the clogged gills of accepting fault for it.
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Because the fact is
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That we do not all share responsibility for this.
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The vast majority of us are preoccupied with struggling to survive
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On a monthly if not weekly basis
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On wages barely high enough to keep us alive,
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Sometimes not even that high.
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It is insulting to suggest that the average person
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Has any influence whatsoever
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Over the corpo-political incestual fuckfest
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That determines how the people on this planet ultimately coexist
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When the direction of society is influenced significantly less
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By who the majority elect to govern it
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Than it is by who can afford to underwrite the biggest brood of lobbyists,
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When the only crime the megarich consistently serve time for
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Is fucking the money up,
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When 2020 saw the empires of billionares expand like wildfires
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While hundreds of thousands of workers lost their homes,
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Livelihoods,
Gm
Sometimes even lives.
[Instrumental]
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Woah-oh-oh
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Oh, oh-oh
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Woah-oh-oh
Em
Oh, oh-oh
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[Verse 5]
N.C.
And with this in mind,
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Here's an alternative short horror story for you:
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The human race,
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I think,
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Is fundamentally good
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At its root,
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At its core.
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A species gifted with, to varying degrees,
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A seemingly infinite imagination
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That has filled our libraries over the centuries
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With 30 million unique works of fiction;
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An unprecedented capacity for tool use
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That took us from inventing the aeroplane
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To punting a person into space
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In less time than it takes a human being to reach retirement age.
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We are, let us not forget,
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The Mother of the Welfare State
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And Penicillin
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And Mid-90s-era Green Day.
Bm
This is us at our very, very best,
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But this machine that we are wired into without our consent,
Bm
It stretches us thin.
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It wrings us dry.
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Anything good,
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Anything pure,
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Anything that cannot justify its existence
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By pointing to a rise in share price
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Is deemed ultimately unfit to survie.
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Take the internet for example.
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In 1969, data was sent from a terminal at UCLA
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To a terminal at Standford hundreds of miles away.
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And lo, fifty years later,
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The internet has singlehandedly changed the world
Bm
More dramatically than perhaps any invention in human history.
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It should, by all rights,
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Have been the next great step
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On the path to a borderless society.
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A global neural network
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Allowing us to share art and science and philosophy
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Instantaneously,
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Allowing the ideas blooming in our collective consciousness
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To evolve at the speed of imagination
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Rather than at the speed of the postal service.
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Instead, though,
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It became a means to force-feed each of us
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Our own personal advertising campaign,
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Targeted with the precision of a raytheon maverick.
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And if you think
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They have run out of ways to shotblast that wilderness
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With shit from corner to corner,
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Then strap in
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Because the internet as we have known it
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Isn't even likely to exist for much longer
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Because the governments of the world
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Have been twitching uncomfortably for years now
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As they realize how hard it is to control a populace
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Who have real-time access
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To all of the information
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About everything ever
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On a tiny computer
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That lives in their pocket.
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We built this brilliant, beautiful thing
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Out of plastic and wire,
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And it was deliberately and maliciously lobotomized
Em
By people who thought it gave the packmules too much freedom,
Em
Too much power.
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And this is just one example
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In a list that seems to stretch on and on into forever
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Like a Star Wars title crawl
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With new crimes against humanity being added so fast
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That no one could ever hope to read all.
[Instrumental]
Em A
[Verse 6]
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And I am done sharing the blame for the state of this place
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With the fucking dragons
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Who have the resources to feed everyone,
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Clothe everyone,
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House and educate and heal everyone
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And who choose not to time and time again,
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Who actively and often violently push back
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Against attempts to beg for more pebbles
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From their mountain of wealth.
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For example,
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Did you know that Amazon workers frequently earn so little
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That they rely on government top-ups and overtime
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Just to tread water above the poverty line
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While their CEO Jeff Bezos has so much fucking money
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That if you counted by one number every second,
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Every day,
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Without sleep,
Em
It would take you over 30 years
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Just to count up to the amount of money he has—
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Oh, no, wait a second, I misread that.
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He actually has 185 times that amount.
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He has more money than the human mind is capable of imagining,
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More than anyone could ever spend in multiple lifetimes,
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And that's just the money we know about
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Because remember, in 2015—
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It was headline news across the world—
Em
A global conspiracy by the financial elite
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To hide trillions of dollars
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In unreachable, illegal
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Bank accounts in Panama.
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And what happened there?
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Oh, yeah!
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The journalist who broke the story
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Was assasinated in broad daylight with a fucking car bomb,
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And the story just disappeared.
[Instrumental]
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[Outro]
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And I am standing here
F#m
In the supermarket
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Wondering whether I can forgive myself
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For buying a pack of stock cubes
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That has fucking palm oil in it.
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Fucking goddamn it, man.
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