Tuning: Standard with CAPO on second fret (even for the lead guitar on the first part)
Chords:
Am: x02210
B7/A: x0120x
E7sus/A:x0020x
A5: x022xx
Dm: XX0321
F: 133211
E: 022100
Dm7: xx0768
Dm6: xx0767
Am7: xx2213
Am6: xx2212
Bb: x1333x
INTRO:
E
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------7b---------0---0---------|
G|---------9----9----9-----9---7-----------------|
D|----7/9----9----9----------9---9---9-----------|
A|-----------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
E
e|----------------------------------0------------|
B|----------------------7b-----------------------|
G|---------9----9----9-----9----7-----7----------|
D|----7/9----9----9----------9----9-----9--------|
A|-----------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
E
e|-------------------------------0--------7---------------------------------|
B|----------------------7b--------------------7-----------7-----------------|
G|---------9----9----9-----9---7---7/9----------9---7---9---9--7------------|
D|----7/9----9----9----------9---------9----9-----9---9----------/9---------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Am B7/A E7sus/A A5
Look at the weather, look at the news
Am B7/A E7sus/B A5
Look at all the people in denial
Am B7/A
We're running time, leaving grace
E7sus/A A5
Still we worship at the marketplace
Am B7/A E7sus/A A5
While common sense is goin' out of style
Dm Am
I thought that I would be above it all by now
Dm F E
In some country garden in the shade
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
But it's business as usual
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Day after day
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
Business as usual
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Just grinding away
Dm7-Dm6 Em7-Dm6
You try to be righteous
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
You try to do good
F
But business as usual
E Am
Turns your heart into wood
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
Monuments to arrogance reach for the sky
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
Our better nature's buried in the rubble
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
We got the prettiest White House that money can buy
Am B7/B E7sus/B A5
Sitting up there in that beltway bubble
Dm Am
The main jefe talks about our freedom
Dm F E
But this is what he really means...
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
Business as usual
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
How dirty we play
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
Business as usual
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Don't you get in the way
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
Yeah, make you feel helpless
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Make you feel like a clown
F
Business as usual
E Am
Is breakin' me down
F E Am
Boy, you can't go surfing in Century City
Dm E Am
Yeah, them sharks out there are lurking beneath the curb
F E Am Dm
Yeah, they rob you blind, chew you up, and it ain't pretty
F Bb
And it's a soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin', soul suckin'
E
Soul suckin', soul suckin' world
Dm Am Dm Am Dm Am F E
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
Business as usual
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Day after day
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
Business as usual
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Feel like walking away
Dm7-Dm6 Dm7-Dm6
A barrell of monkeys
Am7-Am6 Am7-Am6
Or band of renown
F
Business as usual
E Am B7/A E7sus/A A5
Is breakin' me down
Am B7/A E7sus/A Am
Breakin' me down