Michael Franti - Its good to be alive today

^Gm7 every day I wake up and turn my apple on ^Bb I read the news of the day just as it's coming down ^F I do my best not to let it get me down ^C I try to keep my head up but this is Babylon ^Gm7 this world;s in crisis we try to fight it this changing climate ^Bb with scientists and the politicians divided by it ^F so many ways we can solve it but they will never sign it ^C this mountains tumbling down but still we try to climb it ^Gm7 it's in the torah quran and in the bible ^Bb love is the message but somehow we've turned to rivals ^F it's come to people always picking up their rifles ^C another school getting shot up homicidal ^Bb some people trying to look fly some people trying to get high ^Dm some people losing their mind some people trying to get by F* when you look in my eyes you see the sign of the times ^C we all looking for the same thing

but what if ^Gm7this song was number one would it ^Bbmean that love had won would it ^Fmean that the world was saved and no ^Cbombs are being dropped today and what if ^Gm7everybody had a job and no^Bbbody had to break a law what if ^Feveryone could say ^C that it's good to be alive to^Gm7day oh oh oh oh^Bb yes it's good to be alive to^Fday oh oh oh oh^C yes it's good to be alive to^Gm7day oh oh oh oh^Bb yes it's good to be ablive to^Fday oh oh oh oh^C no matter what they say

^Gm7 people used to feel safer when they would hear a siren ^Bb like help is on it's way but now they only think of violence ^F another youth in the streets and police is in the conflict ^C and now we hear the guns click ^Gm7 ebola crisis and ISIS is taking heads off ^Bb a drones bombing the village and now the kids all ^F signing up to be soldiers cus they are willing now ^C to do the killing now but are you willing now ^Gm7 some politicians out there making up some problems ^Bb and trying to tell the people that they can solve them ^F with TV shows and sound bytes and quotes ^C but everybody knows that it's all about the cash flow ^Gm7 they're telling you and me, they're making progress ^Bb but tell it to the millions of jobless ^F it's like a players club with billions of dollars ^C to get the votes you gotta make it rain in congress ^Bb some people trying to get high some people trying to look fly ^Dm some people losing their minds some people trying to get by F* when you look in my eyes you see the sign of the times ^C we all looking for the same thing

but what if ^Gm7this song was number one would it ^Bbmean that love had won would it ^Fmean that the world was saved and no ^Cbombs are being dropped today and what if ^Gm7everybody had a job and no^Bbbody had to break a law what if ^Feveryone could say ^C that it's good to be alive to^Gm7day oh oh oh ^Bboh yes it's good to be alive to^Fday oh oh oh o^Ch yes it's good to be alive to^Gm7day oh oh oh o^Bbh yes it's good to be alive to^Fday oh oh oh o^Ch and we all say

^Gm7 one day, one day ^Bb one day, one day ^F one day we all will sing ^C that it's good to be alive today ^Gm7 one day, one day ^Bb one day, one day ^F one day we all will sing ^C that it's good to be alive today ^Gm7 oh oh oh oh ^Bb yes it's good to be alive today ^F oh oh oh oh ^C yes it's good to be alive today ^Gm7 oh oh oh oh ^Bb yes it's good to be alive tod^Fay ^C

^Gm7 one day, one day ^Bb one day, one day ^F one day we all will say ^C that it's good to be alive today ^Gm7 one day, one day ^Bb one day, one day ^F one day we all will say ^C that it's good to be alive tod^Fay