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Blair Mitchell

The System Isnt Broken

Blair Mitchell

Guitar chords Easy level Easy
[Intro:]
G  Am 
G  Am 



  Am N.C. 
Depends on where you’re born if you are green or blue. 
     C N.C. 
It depends upon your class if you’re a Tory    too. 
     Em N.C. 
It depends upon your money if Labour get your    vote. 
       F N.C. 
It's a cross inside a box or a hand around your   throat 

        Am N.C. 
There's guns or schoolbooks, hamburgers, or     kale 
  C N.C. 
A flat from the council or a mansion up for    sale 
       Em N.C. 
It’s a break in the country or another weekend shift. 
       F N.C. 
It’s a cottage for your holiday or a high rise with no    lift. 

     Am 
It’s shoot them all with gunboats or save the refu--gees. 
       C 
It’s a microwave kebab or fried halloumi cheese. 
       Em 
It’s a massive SUV just to get your kids from school. 
       F 
It’s a missed welfare appointment because the bus was    full 

       Am 
It’s a family on Christmas, it’s a family that’s torn. 
       C 
It’s a fruitful loving marriage, it’s watching too much    porn 
     Em 
It’s paying someone else to get the stress nodes out your back. 
     F 
It’s paying someone else for a little bit of crack 

     Am 
It’s anti-Semitism or Israel is    wrong. 
     C 
It’s fill your face with botox to release your latest    song 
         Em 
It’s the bottom of your bank account, it's a little put away. 
         F 
It’s the Billy Graham Rule or everyone is gay 



        G                    F                          Am 
Oh, the system isn't broken,   it was always built this    way 


Interlude: Am 


 
Am 
Black lives matter or All lives matter    too. 
     C 
It’s call for a ceasefire, from the arab or the jew 
         Em 
And it’s fighting over oil, it’s fighting over trees. 
    F 
And what about my    car, what about the    bees 

    Am 
The plastic in the ocean, all the plastic    straws. 
     C 
It’s building walls for strangers or immigration    laws 
     Em 
It’s writing party slogan on the broad side of a bus. 
       F 
It’s a jam making communist who says he’s one of us 

         Am 
And it's North and South Korea, fight over a    line. 
   C 
We order from Ikea, our furniture in    pine 
   Em 
We watch a documentary on how to save the whales. 
        F 
But the only thing we help are the Netflix global    sales 

    Am 
And animals are equals, my dog it should have   rights. 
     C 
Then breed them to be pretty for the sake of Facebook   likes 
     Em 
It’s save the rainforest, it’s leave my chocolate    spread. 
     F 
It’s save the orangutans, while Syrian kids lay    dead 

     Am 
It’s raise our income taxes, buy a second    home. 
     C 
It’s pay the electric bill, or a new villa in    Rome 
    Em 
The Queen or the Pope, Grass Court or   Clay. 
    F 
The end of British Rule or up the IRA 



          G                    F                          Am 
Well, the system isn't broken,   it was always built this    way 


Interlude: Am 



Am N.C. 
Life starts at conception, it’s my body, it’s my    choice. 
     C N.C. 
It’s silent acceptance of another angry    voice 
       Em N.C. 
It’s a lifetime of renting, it's a gift from Mum and Dad. 
       F N.C. 
It’s a life of medication, or embracing you're just    sad 

     Am N.C. 
It’s always being faithful or a little on the   side. 
       C N.C. 
It’s a working girl and John, or a new husband and    bride 
     Em N.C. 
It’s tearing down a statue and throwing it in the sea. 
        F N.C. 
Or it’s playing college football or refuse to take a knee 

        Am N.C. 
Or it’s reading the Bible, chopsticks in your   ears. 
     C N.C. 
It’s always to be kind, or it’s I hate Britney   Spears 
     Em N.C. 
It’s fairtrade coffee, it’s drinking only soy. 
        F N.C. 
Or it’s caring far too much if it’s a girl or it’s a boy 

        Am 
Or it’s buy your shoes from sweatshops, march against the   war. 
     C 
It’s giving homeless money without caring what it’s for 
        Em 
Or it’s sneering at a junkie, it’s two bottles of    wine. 
       F 
It’s a goodbye kiss for work and pretending that you're fine 

        Am 
And you send your kids to Eton, to teach them not to    care. 
     C 
Then learn how to distract us, convince us they’re not    there 
      Em 
We'll all fight each other, and scream to have our say. 
       F 
Making enemies of friends, when we are all the same 



          G  N.C.              G F N.C.                         Am 
Well, the system isn't broken,     Well, it's always built this    way
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