Verse 1 A7M
There's children on the street using guns and knives;
F#m7
They're taking drugs and each others' lives.
Bm7
Killing each other with knives and forks.
Bm7 D/E
And calling each other names like "dork". Oh, woh.
Verse 2 A7M
There's people on the street getting diseases from monkeys.
F#m7
Yeah, that's what I said, they're getting diseases from monkeys.
Bm7
Now, there's junkies with monkey disease.
Bm7
Who's touching these monkeys, please?
Bm7
Leave these poor sick monkeys alone;
D/E
They got problems enough as it is.
Verse 3 A7M
A man is lying on the street some punk's chopped off his head.
F#m7 Bm7
I'm the only one who stops to see if he's dead,
Bm7
Mm , turns out he's dead.
Biss D7M
And that's why I'm singing: what,
C#m7
What is wrong with the world today?
Bm7
What's wrong with the world today? mumbling
D7M C#m7 Bm7
What, what is wrong with the world today?
Bm7
You gotta think about it, think, think about it.
Verse 4 A7M
Good cops been framed and put into a can,
F#m7
And all the money that we're making is going to the man.
Bm7
What man? Which man? Who's the man?
Bm7
When's a man a man? What makes a man a man?
Bm7 D/E
Am I a man? Yes, technically I am.
Verse 5 A7M
They're turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers
F#7M
but what's the real cost?
F#m7 Bm7
'Cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper
Bm7
Why are we still paying so much for sneakers
Bm7 D/E
When you got them being made by little slave kids? What are your overheads?
Verse 6 A7M
At the end of you life you're lucky if you die
F#7M
Sometimes I wonder why we even try.
Bm7
Saw a man lying on the street half dead
Bm7
With knives and forks sticking out of his leg.
Outro D7M C#m7
And he said, Ah, ah ah wow wow wow wow wow wow
Bm7
Can somebody please get the knife and fork out of my leg please?
D7M C#m7 Bm7
Can somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees?
A7M
And then we break it down. [Ad lib to end]
A7M F#m7 Bm7 D/W
D7M C#m7 Bm7 A7M