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