Modern Life Has Let Me Down(Chords)

	        
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 
 F#m 
 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 

 
                    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 
                F#m 
 That you never had and never will have a use for 
D 
 And take a walk through the uniform lawn 
 F#m 
 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 

 
                    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 

 
                   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