Chords for MATT PLESS - When The Frayed Wind Blows | A Fistful Of Vinyl

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_ _ _ [C] For Fistful of Idol on KXOU, I'm Alec and this is Matt Pless. _ _ _
Hey, this song is called When the Frayed Wind Blows.
I wrote this song when I stayed up for three days in New York. _
A [G] lot of things came out of my head.
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_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ If it starts with an explosion, [Dm] do you end it with a [E] bang?
First the whistles start a-blowin', [Am] then the guilty finally hang.
There's a storm on the horizon [Dm] and the water's on the rise.
[E] We're watchin' history [Am] repeatin' with the changin' times.
The figureheads keep talkin', [Dm] but they're buried in the [E] sand.
Everyone is pointin' fingers, [Am] everybody plays their hand.
The fixes in the game is [Dm] rigged, the pawns are polarized.
[E] You either pick a side or [Am] think outside the picket lines.
I [F] wonder, is this a [C] revolution or just mass confusion?
[E] When every voice is tryin' [Am] to scream the loudest for [Dm] equality.
While we argue [Am] strategy, culture, and [E] philosophy.
People die in cities, [Am] streets, all paved with blood and poverty.
[Dm] Powers with a chosen [Am] few.
Desperation's [E] just a tool that agents of corruption [Am] use
to keep the jails and [Em] prisons [F] full.
Diamond pockets [Em] lined with [Am] profits earned from broken [E] lives.
This led to pledge by one [F] discrimination under God.
I'm sayin', stop the world, [C] I wanna get off.
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Everything's on fire [Am] and it's fallin' apart.
So [F] if we can't turn back, [C] can we change the course?
[G] When the fury of the [Am] frayed wind blows.
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_ [Am] _ _ Preachers sell [Dm] salvation to the faithful on their [E] knees.
Some prey upon our need and want [Am] for something to believe.
And some have spun the [Dm] doctrines, holy guides to paradise.
[E] To justify injustices and centuries [Am] of genocide.
Surrender to your temples, [Dm] to your altars or your shrines.
[E] The weapons used by shepherds [Am] so the sheep will keep in line.
Conflicting [Dm] congregations thinking only of themselves.
[E] If that's the path to heaven, hate to see the road to hell.
I'll [F] tell ya, they take a [C] vision, make religion, cause division.
[E] Keep you vacant and complacent and dependent on a system.
[Dm] By creating ways to separate, [Am] utilizing class and [E] race.
Prejudice perpetuates and keeps monopolies in place.
[Dm] Trickle up or [E] trickle down, stack or spread the wealth around.
Someone's hope is running out while fortune fills a bank [F] account.
Empty promise, [Am] politicians pander to [E] the poor.
While there's money used for funding [Am] phony wars on foreign shores.
I'm [F] saying, stop the [C] world, I wanna get off.
[G] Cause they're loading up the bullets and [Am] they're dropping the bombs.
The [F] propaganda _ [C] beats to the narrative drums.
[G] When the fury of the raid [A] wind blows.
_ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ The criminals in [Dm] Congress, they ain't got no ground to stand.
[E] They're building walls and borders [Am] all around the stolen land.
A legacy [Em] of [Dm] liberty, that's how the story goes.
[E] But conquerors rewrote the [Am] past to suit the status quo.
So is it [E] institutions [Dm] or the state of [E] humankind.
That leads to some exalted [Am] over thousands left behind.
They'll push it to your [Dm] limit, but in turn they'll push their luck.
[E] Cause sleeping giants riot when [F] they've finally woken up.
Because they're buying your silence [C] with those shiny advertisements.
[E] They lie and cheat and steal and tax your [F] habits.
So you'll finance what they hide away behind [Am] the scenes.
Cover over [E] underneath, population exploitation [Am] victimized by [Dm] vanity.
Faces in a [Am] magazine, pictures on a [E] pixel screen.
Set a lofty standard that [Am] disintegrates your [Dm] self esteem.
Raised to chase a [E] plastic dream, red carpets and limousines.
Blinded and distracted [Am] by the flash bulbs of celebrity.
[F] But just beyond the [G] limelight after [Am] fame has run its course.
[E] They'll throw you to the lions while a sold [F] out crowd of war.
I'm saying, stop the [C] world, I wanna get off.
[G] Cause there's bodies lying [Am] breathless bleeding piling [E] up.
They shook [F] the bottle, the [C] rage now is bound to erupt.
[G] When the fury of the [A] ravening blows.
_ _ _ _ [Am] You can think yourself in circles, [Dm] but the answer's never clear.
[E] Is there safety with surveillance?
Is there [Am] freedom without fear?
Unravel and untangle [Dm] all you thought you understood.
[E] And question everything until you [Am] question why you should.
We'll change the world with flowers or [Dm] we'll change the world with guns.
[E] We'll plant a seed or dig a [A] grave before [Am] it's said and done.
But if we come together [Dm] all for one and one for all.
[E] Resistance rises up shore as [A] an empire will fall.
So [F] I'll just push towards the future, [C] may it crumble for the better.
Where [E]
tyrannical [G] oppressors are, [A] but shadows will remember.
[D] No judgment based on color [Am] or your lover or your gender.
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Dismantle older models [Em] so they can't be [Dm] reassembled.
But the data tables [Em] turn your [Am] way, watch out for a twist [E] of fate.
Careful not to stumble and become the very thing [Dm] you hate.
Seek out something [Am] comforting, search for something [E] innocent.
But you'll never have [A] those eyes that look at life that way [F] again.
So you can take the high road, [E] nothing ventured, nothing gained.
But you'll fight fire with fire [A] when you're going down in flames.
And [F] say, stop the world, [C] I wanna get off.
Cause [G] we're at each other's throats and [A] now it's choking my heart.
[Em] So [F] we can burn the [C] earth or extinguish the torch.
[G] When the fury of [Fm] the [G] _ _ [Am] ravening blows.
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[Eb] Yeah.
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Yeah, [N] it's funny how it leaves you winded.
Afraid. _
Or something.
_ _ Affligate. _ _
_ Should I just turn up the dude clapping in or?
No, we're good for right now.
Actually, I wanna, uh.
_ Alright. _
I wanna put a sticker over it.
I feel like we're advertising for that box company right now.
Alright, I'm gonna throw a sticker over it.
Let's cut