Chords for Matt Pless - When the Frayed Wind Blows | Sofar Glasgow

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_ Once again, my name is Matt Pless.
That's like less with a P in front of it.
If you
have a hard time remembering, _ just yeah, go on.
_ [E] _ My daughter's name is Hope.
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_ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [N] So if you
want to help me and my non-existent daughter with a bad name, _ go online and
buy and stream my stuff and I don't know, do whatever you want, but check me out
on the internet and find me on Facebook.
This song is called When the
Frayed Wind Blows.
_ _ _ [Ab] I'm just going to let it speak [Abm] for itself.
Thanks for listening to me.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dbm] When the frayed wind blows, you either ponder polarized, [Eb] you either pick a side or think outside the picket lines.
I [E] wonder, is this a [B] revolution or just mass confusion?
[Eb] When every voice is trying to [Abm] scream the loudest for equality, [E] while we argue strategy, [Abm]
culture, and philosophy.
[Eb] People die in city [Abm] streets all paved with blood and poverty.
[Dbm] Powers with a chosen [Abm] few.
Desperation's just a [Eb] tool that agents of corruption [Abm] use to keep the jails and prisons [E] full.
Diamond pockets lined with [Abm] profits earned from broken lives.
[Eb] Misled to pledge by one [Abm]
discrimination under God of [E] Zion.
Stop the world, [B] I want to get off.
[Gb] _ Everything's on fire [Eb] and it's falling apart.
So [E] if we can't turn back, [B] can we change the course?
[Gb] When the fury of the frayed [Abm] wind blows, _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Abm] _
the preachers sell salvation to [Dbm] the faithful on their [Eb] knees.
Some prey upon our need and want for [Abm] something to believe.
And some have spun the doctrines, [Dbm] holy guides to paradise.
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To justify injustices [Abm] and centuries of genocide.
Surrender to your temples, [Dbm] to your alters or your [Ebm] shrines.
The weapons used by shepherds so the sheep will keep in line.
Conflicting congregations [Dbm] thinking only of [Eb] themselves.
If that's the path to heaven, hate to see the road to hell, I'll tell [E] ya.
They take a [B] vision, make religion, cause [Eb] division.
Keep you vacant and complacent and dependent on a [Dbm] system.
By creating ways to separate, [Abm] utilizing class [Eb] and race.
Prejudice [Abm] perpetuates and keeps monopolies in [Gb] place.
[Dbm] Trickle up or trickle [Abm] down, stack or spread the wealth [Eb] around.
Someone's hope is running [Eb] out while fortune fills a bank [E] account.
Empty promise [Abm] politicians pander to the poor.
[Eb] While there's money used for funding [Abm] phony wars on foreign shores.
I'm [E] saying stop the world, [B] I wanna get off [Gb] cause they're loading up the bullets [Eb] and they're dropping the bombs.
The [E]
propaganda beats [B] to the narrative drums when [Gb] the fury of the frayed [Abm] wind [Ab] blows. _ _
_ _ [Abm] The criminals in Congress, [Dbm] they ain't got no ground to stand.
[Eb] They're building walls and borders [Abm] all around the stolen land.
A legacy of liberty, [Dbm] that's how the story goes.
[Eb] But conquerors rewrote the [Abm] past to suit the status quo.
So is it institutions or [Dbm] the state of humankind that [Eb] leads to some exalted over [Abm] thousands left behind?
They'll push it to your limit, [Dbm] but in turn they'll push their luck.
[Eb] Cause sleeping giants riot when [Eb] they've finally woken up.
Because [E] they're buying your silence with [B] those shiny advertisements.
[Eb] They lie and cheat and steal and tax [Abm] your habits so you'll finance what they [Dbm] hide away behind the scenes.
[Abm] Cover over underneath, [Eb] population _ exploitation, [Abm] victimized by vanity.
[Dbm] Faces in a magazine, [Abm] pictures on a pixel [Eb] screen.
Set a lofty standard that [Abm] disintegrates your self-esteem.
[Dbm] Race to chase a plastic dream, [Abm] red carpets and limousines.
[Eb] Blinded and distracted by the [Abm] flash bulbs of celebrity.
But [E] just beyond the limelight, after [Abm] fame has run its course, they'll [Eb] throw you to the lions while a [Abm] sold out crowd will roar.
I'm saying [E] stop the world, I [B] wanna get off cause there's [Gb] bodies lying, breathless, [Eb] bleeding, piling up.
They [E] shook the bottled [B] rage, now it's bound to erupt when [Gb] the fury of the [Ab] frayed wind blows. _ _
_ _ [Abm] You can think yourself in [Db] circles, but the answer's never clear.
[Eb] Is there safety with surveillance?
[Abm] Is there freedom without fear?
Unravel and untangle [Db] all you thought you understood [Eb] and question everything [Abm] until you question why you should.
We'll change the world with flowers [Bb] or we'll change the world with guns.
[Eb] We'll plant a seed or dig a grave [Abm] before it's said and done.
But if we come together, offer [Dbm] one and one for all, [Eb] resistance rises up shore as an [Eb]
empire will fall.
So I'll [Ab] just push towards the future, [Abm] may it crumble for the better.
[Eb] Where tyrannical oppressors [Abm] are, but shadows will remember.
[E] No judgment based on [Eb] color or your lover or your gender.
Dismantle older models so they [Bb] can't be reassembled, but the day the tables turn [Abm] your way, watch out for a twist [Eb] of fate.
Careful not to [Ab] stumble and become the very thing you [Dbm] hate.
Seek out something [Abm] comforting, search for something innocent.
[Eb] But you'll never have those eyes that look at life that way [E] again.
So you can take the high road, [Abm] nothing ventured, nothing gained.
[Eb] But you'll fight fire with fire [Abm] when you're going down in flames and [E] saying,
Stop the world, [B] I wanna get off cause [Gb] we're at each other's throats and now [Eb] it's choking my heart.
And we [E] could burn the earth or [B]
extinguish the torch when [Gb] the fury of the [E] _
great wind [Abm] _ blows.
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_ _ _ Thanks everybody. _
Bye.
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