Once We Were Anarchists

   G
Demonstrations got boring
             C
Well it was obvious that the 
government was ignoring us
     Em
It's hard to drag yourself through 
empty streets
       F
On an empty stomach with no sleep
                      G
The shortcomings got clearer
       C
As the price we paid got dearer and 
dearer
       Em
It's supposed to be a case of give 
and take
           F
Well I was feeling the give and 
making the mistake
         Am               
And I've heard it said the 
 F           G
unexamined life
Am                F              
Isn't much worth living, and I'm 
              G
sure they're right
          Am              F       
But it's hard to keep on fighting 
          G
the good fight
     Am                F
When no one else seems bothered
           D
Yeah, when no one's on your side

            C                   D
Because I'm young enough to be all 
pissed off
        G                 C
But I'm old enough to be jaded
     C                  D
I'm at the age where I want things 
to change
         Bm                C
But with age my hopes have faded
     C                         D
I'm young and bored of being young 
and bored
         Bm                        
If I was old I could say I've seen 
   Em    D
it all before
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      C         D                G
In short; I'm tired of giving a shit

                          G
I've got friends who are bankers
             C
And it's an easy rhyme to call them 
wankers
       Em
But I must say I envy the way that 
they live
          F
And it's all; it's all take and no 
give
                           G
Well I'm playing the lone ranger
C
Riding to the rescue of 6 billion 
strangers
Em
Armed with only an original song
       F
And a sense that something's wrong

      C                   G/B     
And I must admit that I'm tired of
        Am           G
 saying no, all the time
             C         G/B   
Well I must admit that I don't 
          F                  G
really know what would be right
        C            B
And if politics, is helping other 
people
         Em        D              
Then my political career is pretty
  C
 fucked
             C                   
Because the truth is I don't like 
  D               G
people all that much

                         G
The times they aren't a-changing
       C
Yeah England's still shit, and it's 
still raining
      Em
And everybody's jaded and tired and 
bored
     F
And no one lifts a finger, because
                       G
It's just not in our culture
     C
Our culture is carrion and we're all
 vultures
    Em
And no one seems bothered by the 
state of play
    F
It seems that the stench is with us 
to stay
     Am           F            
So I had a go, I tried examining 
   G
life
    Am                F
It wasn't much worth living
                 G
I guess they're right
         Am                    F  
And I'm tired of fighting the 
                 G
fight that's not my fight
Am         F                 D
So is everybody else, we're all on 
the same side

            C                  D
Because I'm young enough to be all 
pissed off
        G                 C
But I'm old enough to be jaded
    C                   D
I'm at the age where I want things 
to change
         Bm                 C
But with age my hopes have faded
     C                       D
I'm young and bored of being young 
and bored
         Bm                        
If I was old I could say I've seen 
   Em   D
it all before
   C           D
In short; I'm tired
        C                   D
And in short; I'm probably fired
        C                  D      
If the revolution doesn't want me,
                G
 I don't give a shit