The Strokes

Ize Of The World(Chords)

The Strokes

Key: C#m

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          C#m           F#m      G#m            E 
I think I know what you mean but watch what you say 
                  C#m       F#m       G#m          E 
'Cause they'll be trying to knock you down in some way. 
             C#m            F#m      G#m     E 
Sometimes it feels like the world is falling asleep. 
           C#m          F#m     G#m      E 
How do you wake someone up from inside a dream? 
                C#m        F#m            G#m          E 
Your mind would wander and search for its place in the night. 
          C#m           F#m          G#m       E 
Your body followed this feeling like following light. 
               E         C#m     B            E 
Once that your music was born it followed you 'round 
            E         C#m        B           E          F#m 
And then it gave your activities meaning and let you be loud. 
 
           G#m            A 
You're sad but you smile. 
         E             F#m 
It's not in your eyes. 
        G#m 
Your eyeballs don't change. 
         A                   E     G#m 
It's the muscles around your eyes. 
 
               E     G#m 
An egg to fertilize, 
                E     G#m 
A pulse to stabilize, 
               E     G#m 
A body to deodorize, 
                E     G#m 
A life to scrutinize, 
                E     G#m 
A child to criticize, 
                     E     G#m 
Young adults to modernize, 
                 E     G#m 
Citizens to terrorize, 
                      E     G#m 
Generations to desensiti-. 
 
                C#m         F#m           G#m     E 
Your dreams are sweet and obsessed and you're overworked. 
           C#m      F#m         G#m       E 
You're overtaken by feelings of being overlooked. 
        C#m            F#m   G#m    E 
How disappointed would D.I.D.I.P.P. be 
            C#m          F#m       G#m       E 
To see such power in our hands all wasted on greed? 
       C#m         F#m          G#m   E 
I am a prisoner to instincts or do my thoughts 
             C#m      F#m         G#m          E 
Just live as free and detached as boats to the dock? 
               E         C#m      B                  E 
Just like when music was born and detached from your heart. 
E       C#m               B            E       F#m 
Is your free time to free minds or for falling apart? 
 
      G#m         A 
Night after night 
         E              F#m 
You turn out the light. 
               G#m           A 
You don't fall asleep right away. 
                  E      G#m 
'Are we... are we done?' 
 
              E     G#m 
A desk to organize, 
                  E     G#m 
A product to advertize, 
                  E     G#m 
A market to monopolize, 
                  E     G#m 
Movie stars to idolize, 
                 E     G#m 
Leaders to scandalize, 
                 E     G#m 
Enemies to neutralize, 
                E     G#m 
No time to apologize, 
               E     G#m 
Fury to tranquilize, 
                  E     G#m 
Weapons to synchronize, 
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Cities to vapori-. 

	        

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