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Modern Life Has Let Me Down

Biography:

The King Blues are a political band who fuse ska and folk together with punk rock influences. They come from London, England and formed in 2004. On April 3rd 2012 the band split up indefinitely, a comeback album was released in 2016.

Their third full length album, Punk and Poetry, was released on the 17th of April 2011

Tariq Ali described the band's sounds as 'rough, radical music that should unsettle the rulers of this country. A new generation of musicians are challenging war-monger politicians and their courtiers'.

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[Intro]
D

[Verse 1]
D
From the view in the office on the 16th floor
F#m
That you gave 21 years for
D
Staring out the window at the big bilboard
F#m
To remind you what your fighting for
Bm
It's this guys life with his flawless smile
F#m
His beautiful wife and his perfect child
B
So to buy and be be this guy you choose
A
And remind yourself that your tie is not a noose

[Verse 2]
D
Freedom is not a coffee break with your boss
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Eat, sleep, breath at pre-destined stops
D
And Xerox 100 times
F#m
Now 100 people read what bored you to write
Em
Cos we can all be bored as a team after all
F#m
Ain't that the American dream?
B
If that's the dream and you can't shake it up
A
Then please wake me up

[Chorus]
D
The worlds closing in, I'm kicking out
A
They can't hear me when I shout
Bm A
That modern life, Modern life has let me down
D
It's soul destroying don't you love it?
A
You can take this job and shove it
Bm A
Modern life, Modern life has let me down

[Bridge 1]
D F#m D
Modern life, Modern life, Modern life, has let me down (x2)

[Verse 3]
D
Come home and slam the door of your 4x4
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That you never had and never will have a use for
D
And take a walk through the uniform lawn
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Knowing you will die in the town you were born
Bm
A pre-packaged meal, a pre-packaged plate
F#m
In front of the tv on a pre-packaged tray
Bm
The choice to be free
A
And we choose to be like everybody else

[Chorus]
D
The worlds closing in, I'm kicking out
A
They can't hear me when I shout
Bm A
That modern life, Modern life has let me down
D
It's soul destroying don't you love it?
A
You can take this job and shove it
Bm A
Modern life, Modern life has let me down

[Bridge 2]
Em Bm
Modern life, Modern life, Modern life, has let me down

F#m G F#m
Modern life, Modern life, Modern life, has let me down
Em
Whatever happened to the love and the unity
Bm
The building up of the community
D
Cos now it's all opportunity
G
It's like the ocean's tainted with impurity
Em
So when the norm is the lunicy
Bm
And they tell you to jump do you agree?
F#m
If I don't well they're suing me
G
It's like you don't know what you do to me
Em
Well you shut me up and you shout me out
Bm
And you tell me like there never was a doubt
F#m
That it's all planned out, how I'll be living
G
They dangle a carrot to keep me driven
Em
But now I'm killing anything I'm given
Bm
Cos I will never give in
F#m
I'll take a hammer, and with precisition
G
Tear up the newspaper, and smash the television

[Chorus]
D
The worlds closing in, I'm kicking out
D
They can't hear me when I shout
D D
That modern life, Modern life has let me down
D
It's soul destroying don't you love it?
A
You can take this job and shove it
Bm A
Modern life, Modern life has let me down

[Coda]
D F#m D
Modern life, Modern life, Modern life, has let me down (x4)
D A
Modern life, Modern life, Modern life, has let me down
N.C
Modern life, Modern life, Modern life, has let me down