The Machine Chords by Tom MacDonald

[Start]

[Verse]
G          Ab7                          
■ I am not Republican I am not a Liberal
             Cm                                                
Why the hell can't I just be American without getting political
    Eb                                                        
The system gon' suppress us all they don't care about the cost
Fm                                                     
How's this a democracy when we got communists in charge
Ab                       Abmaj7                          
Cancel culture Nazis all they're missing is the swastikas
Cm                                        
Honestly this is a psychological holocaust
G7                                                                
Pumpin' propaganda through the screen and straight into your brain
                                                     Ab   
You ain't on a plantation but you definitely still a slave
Ab                                    
Race theory is indoctrinating children
Cm                                                                    
Tell blacks they're disadvantaged tell whites they got white privilege
     Eb                                   
What a brilliant way to reinforce division
                  Fm                                                         
If whites believe they have it easy they will never help you fight the system
Ab                                              
And now they burnin' books in untraditional ways
          Cm                                   
They just traded newspapers for the digital age
        Bb                                          
Now the facts can be deleted with no physical flames
                                         G                
They just change the information and the truth gets erased


[Chorus]
          Ab                                   Cm            
They keep screamin' to wake up but they're all woke not awake
            Eb                               Fm          
We know the system has failed us and all the media's fake
            Ab                         Cm                   
I swear the government hates us having opinions is dangerous
           Gm                                            
The system built to enslave us only works if we're afraid


[Verse]
         Ab                           
I am not Republican I am not a Liberal
                Cm                                                 
Progressive and traditional are hitmen hired to kill the individual
Eb                                                          
They label people red or blue divide us they don't ever help
Fm                                                                     
They want you thinkin' left or right so you ain't thinkin' for yourself
Ab                                                         
Go ahead and vote 'cause both the parties are the same side
Cm                                             
Two teams one coach controlled by the same guys
                   Cm                         
Leftwing rightwing both help the same bird fly
             G7                        
Brainwashing everybody at the same time
Ab7                                                           
The internet was once a place that we could get our facts from
Cm                                                      
But now it's been monopolized it's Google or it's Amazon
      Eb                                                 
Who's factchecking the factcheckers I can answer that one
Fm                                                         
The people who control the narratives through the platforms
Ab                                                 
Let me break this down for you simple as I can 'kay
Cm                                                     
They use social conditioning to put you in the rat race
Bb                                                                
It doesn't matter if you're first or third or if you're last place
                                        G                               
You're still a rat and they're the cats who kill you so you can't escape


[Chorus]
          Ab                                   Cm            
They keep screamin' to wake up but they're all woke not awake
            Eb                               Fm          
We know the system has failed us and all the media's fake
            Ab                         Cm                   
I swear the government hates us having opinions is dangerous
           Gm                                            
The system built to enslave us only works if we're afraid


[Bridge]
         Ab                           
I am not Republican I am not a Liberal
            Cm                                                               
I am just a man who knows they're scared of a nation that's thinking critical
     Eb                                                         
They kill us or they lock us up for nothing like we're criminals
Fm                                                       
Divide us 'cause they know that unified we are invincible
Ab                                                 
Questioning the government's agenda's controversial
    Cm                                                  
But promoting guns and liquor in our music is commercial
        Bb                                                          
They're confusing us with pronouns they made up to make us triggered
        Bb                                                          
You can call me what you want but just don't call me late for dinner
Ab                                                        
School teaches you to learn and never teaches you to think
       Cm                                                      
So you absorb misinformation then you practice what they preach
    Eb                                                      
You ain't free can't you see that's how they want you to act
              Fm                                                    
That's called conforming to the norm you don't need freedom for that
                              Ab                         
I'm not Republican or Liberal or leftwing or rightleaning
Cm                                                                
I took the red pills 'cause that's what's fighting for my freedoms
Bb                                                               
And you don't need to choose to be accepted they build fake teams
G                                              Cm     
Evil runs the world now like hell ain't got no vacancy


[Chorus]
          Ab                                   Cm            
They keep screamin' to wake up but they're all woke not awake
            Eb                               Fm          
We know the system has failed us and all the media's fake
            Ab                         Cm                   
I swear the government hates us having opinions is dangerous
           Gm                                            
The system built to enslave us only works if we're afraid


[End]