Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows

Submitted by: pxs

Original key: A Natural Minor

Suggested capo: None

Helpers

A Natural Minor

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Intro

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Verse 1

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If it starts with an explosion, Do you end it with a bang?, First the whistles start a-blowin', Then the guilty finally hang
There's a storm on the horizon and the waters on the rise, We're watching history repeatin' with the changin' times
The figureheads keep talking but they're buried in the sand, Everyone is pointing fingers everybody plays their hand
The fix is in, the game is rigged the pawns are polarized, You either pick a side or think outside the picket lines

Pre-Chorus 1

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I wonder, is this a revolution or just mass confusion, When every voice is trying to scream the loudest for equality?
While we argue strategy culture and philosophy, People die in city streets all paved with blood and poverty
The power's with a chosen few desperations just a tool, Agents of corruption use to keep the jails and prisons full
Diamond pockets lined with profits earned from broken lives, Misled to pledge by one discrimination under God I'm sayin'

Chorus 1

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Stop the world, I wanna get off, everything's on fire and it's falling apart
So if we can't turn back can we change the course, When the fury of the frayed wind blows

Break 1

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Verse 2

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The preachers sell salvation to the faithful on their knees, Some prey upon our need and want for something to believe
And some have spun the doctrines holy guide toward paradise, To justify injustices and centuries of genocide
Surrender to your temples, to your altars or your shrines, The weapons used by shepherds so the sheep will keep in line
Conflicting congregations thinking only of themselves, If that's the path to heaven I'd hate to see the road to hell

Pre-Chorus 2

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I tell ya' they take a vision make religion, cause division, Keep you vacant and complacent and dependent on a system
By creating ways to separate utilizing class and race, Prejudice perpetuates and keeps monopolies in place
Trickle up or trickle down, stack or spread the wealth around, Someone's hope is runnin' out while fortune feeds a bank account
Empty-promise politicians pander to the poor, While there's money used for funding phony wars on foreign shores I'm sayin'

Chorus 2

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Stop the world, I wanna get off, Cause they're loading up the bullets and they're dropping the bombs
The propaganda beats to the narrative drums, When the fury of the frayed wind blows

Break 2

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Verse 3

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The criminals in Congress, they ain't got no ground to stand, They're building walls and borders, all around the stolen land
A legacy of liberty, that's how the story goes, But conquerers rewrote the past, to suit the status quo
So is it institutions, or the state of human kind, That leads to some exalted over thousands left behind?
They'll push you to your limit but in turn, they'll push their luck, Cause sleeping giants riot when they've finally woken up

Pre-Chorus 3

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ecause they're buying your silence with those shiny advertisements, They lie and cheat and steal and tax your habits so you'll finance
What they hide away behind the scenes, cover over underneath, Population exploitation, victimized by vanity
Faces in a magazine, pictures on a pixel screen, Set a lofty standard that disintegrates your self esteem
Race to chase a plastic dream, red carpets and Limousines, Blinded and distracted by the flashbulbs of celebrity
But just beyond the limelight, after fame has run its course, They'll throw you to the lions while a sold-out crowd will roar I'm sayin'

Chorus 3

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Stop the world, I wanna get off, Cause there's bodies lying, breathless, bleeding, piling up
They shook the bottled Rage, now it's bound to erupt, When the fury of the frayed wind blows

Break 3

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Verse 4

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You can think yourself in circles but the answer's never clear, Is there safety with surveillance? Is there freedom without fear?
Unravel and untangle all you thought you understood, And question everything until you question why you should
We'll change the world with flowers, or we'll change the world with guns, We'll plant a seed or dig a grave before it's said and done
But if we come together all for one and one for all, Resistance rises up sure as an empire will fall

Pre-Chorus 4

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So I'll just work toward the future may it crumble for the better, Where tyrannical oppressors are but shadows we remember
No judgment based on color or your lover or your gender, Dismantle older models so they can't be reassembled
But the day the tables turn your way, watch out for a twist of fate, Careful not to stumble and become the very thing you hate
Seek out something comforting, search for something innocent, But you'll never have those eyes that look at life that way again
So you can take the high road, nothing ventured, nothing gained, But you'll fight fire with fire when you're going down in flames I'm sayin'

Chorus 4

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Stop the world, I wanna get off, Cause we're at each other's throats and now it's choking my heart
And we can burn the earth or extinguish the torch, When the fury of the frayed wind blows

Outro

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I practiced this song ✓

I practiced this song by heart ♥︎

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