Roger Waters - Is this the life we really want
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[Donald Trump:]
"As a example you're CNN. I mean it's story, after story, after story is bad. I won. I won.
And the other thing, chaos. There's zero chaos. We are running - this is a fine-tuned machine..."
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
The goose has gotten fDbat
On Bcaviar and Bbfancy bars
CAnd subprime loans
And broken homes
FmIs this the life, the holy graDbil?
BbIt's not enough that we succeed
We Cstill need others to fail
[Verse 2]
EbmFear, fear drives the mills of modern Bman
Fear keeps us all in Aline
BbFear of all those foreigners
Fear of all their crimes
EbmIs this the life we really Bwant?
AIt surely must be so Am
BbFor this is a democracy and what we all say goesDbm A G Ab
[Verse 3]
And Dbmevery time a student is run over by a tank
And Aevery time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank
GEvery time a Russian bride is advertised for sale
AbAnd every time a journalist is left to rot in jail
DbmEvery time a young girl's life is casually spent
And Aevery time a nincompoop becomes the president
EverGy time somebody dies reaching for their keys
And Abevery time that Greenland falls in the fucking sea it's because
[Verse 4]
DbmAll of us, the blacks and whites
Chicanos, Asians - every type of Aethnic group
Even folks from Guadaloupe, the old, the young
GToothless hags, supermodels, actors, fags, bleeding hearts
AbFootball stars, men in bars, washer women, tailors, tarts
DbmGrannies, grandpas, uncles, aunts
Friends, relations, homeless tramps
AClerics, truckers, cleaning ladies, ants
GMaybe not ants
GWhy not ants?
Well, because it's true
The Abants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between
The Dbpain that other people feel
And well, for instance, Dbmcutting leaves
Or Acrawling across window sills
In search of open treacle tins
So Glike the ants, are we just dumb?
Is that why we don't feel or see
Or Abare we all just numbed out on reality TV?
So Dbmevery time
The curtain Afalls
GEvery time the curtain falls on some forgotten life
It Abis because we all stood by silent and indifferent
It's normalDbm!