no surrender

Em
   Big Macs for the fat, lo-cal wraps for the
Cmaj7
Call centre battery hens, Japanese snacks for the
D
Choice-spoilt citizens, caviar kickbacks for the
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Citadel denizens.

Em
   Airport shoeshines servicing the suits among the
Camj7
Little silver stereos and hand-rolled cheroots,
D
  First class passengers file on last after the
Camj7
Scum are packed in with their tax-free loot.

Em
   Checkout calamity, you're cheated out of loyalty points,
Camj7
      Ten more years at this joint you'd be home & dry,
D
   Beggars beat round the cash machines but you just
Camj7
Slip between them with the usual lie.

Em
Terrible tales of kidnapped kids keep you
Camj7
Focused on the family and filling up the fridge,
D
Neighbourhood watchers shop dole dodgers, stick their
Camj7
Semis on the market & start racking up the bids.

Am
   Should you stand and fight,
           F
Should you die for what you think is right
        Em                             F
So your useless contribution will be remembered?
                          G       Em
If you're asking me I say no, surrender.

Em
   Constant growth the cancerous cure,
  Cmaj7
A swarming race of profiteers ensure
      D
Cheap cars for the rich, cheap lives for the poor, cheap
Cmaj7
Weeks in the sun, free drinks at the door.

  Em
Puerile propaganda plugs up the TV, keep folk
Cmaj7
Following the money so they'll never be free
          D
Keep them swallowing the swill, the celebrities, the paedophiles,
    Cmaj7
The immigrants invading from the camp over the hill.

Em
   War talk, the big debate,
     Cmaj7
Footsoldiers in the capitol liberating new kinds of hate
D
Cum-shots of human dots caught in the
Cmaj7
Spotlight's glare; he dies who dares.

Em
Fatuous fast-trackers sneering at the shelf-stackers,
Cmaj7
Little Middle-Englanders can't stand the backpackers,
D
Fortress Freedom, come on in,
Cmaj7
Take your chances-you might win.

Am
   Should you stand and fight,
           F
Should you die for what you think is right
        Em                             F
So your useless contribution will be remembered?
                          G      Em
If you're asking me I say no, surrender.

Em
Sunset beaches security patrolled,
     Cmaj7
Keep out the undesirables who won't accept the code
D
Equal opportunity to live in total poverty,
Cmaj7
Execute the ignorant incarcerate the slow

Em
Car caressing managers choking up the avenues,
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Brain dead patriots standing in salute
D
Paperwork raining again and again so that
Cmaj7
Billionaires can claim there's an enemy to shoot

Em
Pill pushers, doorsteppers, personal goal shoppers,
Cmaj7
Lifestyle trendsetters, meditating mindbenders,
D
Hare-brained share sellers pumping out stocks til you're
Cmaj7
Choking on a chain-letter avalanche of dross.

Em
God squads crawling through every country
Cmaj7
Tracking down fools who are bullshit hungry
D
Blinded by divinity followers fall into the
Cmaj7
Man-traps set along the Wailing Wall.

Em
Athletes compete in grand charades while
Cmaj7
Tanks flatten streets and a nation laughs,
D
Visa holders gape at the changing guards while
Cmaj7
Creeps bribe bums to take their photographs.

Em
Film fans flock to the latest schlock,
      Cmaj7
Blockbusters block out even the vaguest thought
D
Bankrupt schools grind out fool after fool then
Cmaj7
Feed them to a system where idiots rule.

Em
Polling booths, phone votes, bogus questionnaires,
Cmaj7
You get a say as if anybody cares
D
   Joe Public doesn't want to play so
Cmaj7
Liquidate his life as he looks the other way.

Em
Don't get sick, don't get wise or they'll
Cmaj7
Gut you with a justice where everything is lies
D
March down Main Street, complain if you want but it's
Cmaj7
Twenty years straight for the losers at the front.