Letter From A Concerned Follower
Artist: Pedro the Lion
From Made in Mexico Album "The only reason I feel secure"
Standard tunning
You will notice that the riff follows the chord shapes of C and F.
Riff 1 covers the verse and Riff 2 the link to the Chorus.
Intro
Riff 1
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First Verse
C
It's weird to think of all the things
F
that have not been keeping
C F
up with the times
C
It's ten o' clock, the sun has now
F
just begun to set the western
C F
hills on fire.
Riff 2 (Play three times)
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(Fourth time play:)
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Chorus
F C Dm Am G
I hear that you don't change
C G Am C F C Dm Am G
how do you expect to keep up with the trends?
F C Dm Am G
you wont survive the information age
C G Am C
unless you plan to change the truth
F C Dm Am G
to accommodate the brilliance of men
C
the brilliance of men.
Riff 1
Verse 2
C
Some folks think we're better now.
F C F
Social evolutions new synthetic
C
will keep us on a straighter path,
F
'cause better men use brand new
C F
math with no wrong answers.
Middle 8
Am G
I'm just a little bit worried.
F C
Do you have some sort of plan?
Am G
Have you been finally defeated
F
by the cunning of these
Dm G
fully evolved men?
Chorus
F C Dm Am G
I hear that you don't change
C G Am C F C Dm Am G
how do you expect to keep up with the trends?
F C Dm Am G
you wont survive the information age
C G Am C
unless you plan to change the truth
F C Dm Am G
to accommodate the brilliance of men
Yeah, the brilliance of men.
Riff 3
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