Tom: A minor
Verse 1
Am
C
Am
It's like something just over the horizon,
maybe see what we can find,
Look long and hard,
look near and far,
But above all things remember
always look inside,
Verse 2
C
Am
C
Listen in into these words from a citizen of earths surface,
lets try and
determine the purpose
Meanwhile i'm striving for perfect but homie
C
perfect takes practice, and im
Am
Finding these days and times i'm
always so damn distracted,
Verse 3
Am
They hit you like, shop here, wear this,
want this, love this, be this, buy
This, buy that,
Log in, sign up, tune in, click here,
F
watch this, read up, write back,
Verse 4
Am
so many things to own,
Tv in your home and your mobile phone
make sure that your never really
Alone
And its pathetic,
like a global epidemic,
G
Attention span so fragmented,
So addicted to being connected,
Em
G
F
We now getting updates by the second,
Got us all time wasting,
Am
F
G
Am
But the whole world look,
G
getting high on information.
Verse 5
Am
Post- generation y babies they call them the digital natives,
Their monitors,
This technology kills imagination,
F
excuse my cynicism, But a world where
Am
F
Every kids best friend is a computer,
G
is a system failure headed for an
Verse 6
Apathetic future.
Am
Just a few centuries back they made maps
C
of a flat world by candle light
Now the whole worlds at your fingertips,
map right down to your street by
Am
So advanced from where we started its
G
Am
all so complexified,
Brand names buy ad- space in your mind,
but they'll never get whats
Inside.
Verse 7
Am
I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
G
Am
but I do my best to follow them
In this world of machines,
F
Am
F
All I can offer is these words that I write
G
and I only give them what I know
Am
So I give them what's inside
Verse 8
Am
Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
but I do my best to follow
G
Am
Them in this world of machines,
G
C
F
we starving for oxygen,
Am
G
Where were you the day that humanity died,
F
G
Am
searching for signs of life to
Reconnect with what's inside
G
Verse 9
Am
C
Somewhere there's a room full of men
in suits looking up at rows of
Terrified by the red in the eyes,
as arrows point down from the pressure
Their under,
C
Am
They say we might drown in our own greediness,
we learn off MTV cribs
Verse 10
smog fills the sky and the cars line up at the servo,
C
And I can't help but think to myself this
can't be the way it was supposed
Verse 11
To go
F
G
On the nightly news floods and bushfires, earthquakes and tidal waves,
Temperatures rising, army's fighting,
Am
bombs go off and sirens blaze
We just trying to get by and occupy
C
our spot on the timeline,
So we change the channel to sex,
drugs and violence program for prime
F
Time,
Am
Sit back in our chairs as a living room
F
G
voyeurism, as reality TV turns all of
Verse 12
Life into a competition,
Am
Airbrushed magazine pages give us false idols to worship,
Depressed,
we can't live up to picture perfect,
F
G
F
Sometimes I just want to unplug and go back to basics,
My story might have been like
Verse 13
somewhere else in history's pages,
C
sons and daughters of colonialism crossed over water
Just to be making our homes
Am
F
I don't know the plan, i'm just here to play my part,
Path, fork my shit, make my mark,
Am
I swear I want to make a difference
From the bottom of my heart,
G
But I don't how to fix it, man,
Am
F
Am
I wouldn't know where to start, so advanced
G
From where we started, images of the production line,
Verse 14
Am
I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
G
Am
But I do my best to follow them in this world of machines,
Oxygen,
F
Am
F
All I can offer is these words that I write
G
and I only give them what I know
Am
So I give them what's inside,
G
Verse 15
Am
Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules,
G
but I do my best to follow
Am
Them in this world of machines,
G
F
we starving for oxygen,
G
Where were you the day that humanity died,
F
G
searching for signs of life to
Am
Reconnect with what's inside
G
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