Prison Is Private Property Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Am]The have nots have had enough
and now they're out to kill the king
Of what look[G]s to be an evil em[C]pire where [G]short-term
earnings earnings mean everything
There's a [Esus4]pressure to deliver here,
your [E]gonna get hurt if you don't play this [Am]game
Nobody will ever know,
just the [G]CEO to the CFO
If you can work some [C]magic,
we can double [G]our paychecks, so make the numbers look right
[Esus4]Wall street is a ruthless mistress
[E]with a quick and painful judgment
[Am]Temptation is in deep now,
threads of greed run through this fabric
Weaving [G]tapestries over your eyes to prepare
the landscapes for disaster
[Esus4]Anthrax or a plane crash, bioc[E]hemical,
or even nuclear attacks
[Am]Integrity is too damn expensive,
discount the price but still
[G]Nob[Am]ody's buy[G]ing so com[C]e up with the mon[G]ey
boys or you'll be choking on a bar[Esus4]rel
And it just might be [E]your own finger
[F]squeezing on the trig[Am]ger
Call [Esus4]in the reinfo[E]rcements

[Verse 2]
[Am]you're working hard on
a [F]life of your own
[C]Three square meals and
a [G]place to call home
The [Dm]American dream can be [F]found here if
you keep your [E]mouth [F]closed[G]
But the [Am]teeth you keep clenched
is what's [Dm]killing [F]the chance
[C]Your mouth is watering as
[G]you imagine
[Dm]Swallowing each new pos[F]session

[Interlude 1]
It's building a prison
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[Verse 3]
[Am]you'll think there's a place where you made it
You searched for this your whole life
[G]New answers will satisfy but then
you realize it's never enough
[Esus4]That's the slickest marketing I've
[E]ever seen - a spiraling trap
[Am]With enough ambition and a firm set
of rules you can have anything you want
[G]You can wal[A]k right out into the wor[G]ld
and capture and kill [Esus4]god
In a little [E]box or a little book
to be understood
[Am]But no one can argue with the good sense
and strength of a solid founda[G]tion
Or with the weakness born when corruption
is the rule and not the excep[Esus4]tion
I'm trying hard [E]to forget
everything I thought I [Am]knew
You've climbed much too high to
let the truth stop you [G]now
Or to concern yourself
with the in[C]vestments [G]of
Lesser honest [Esus4]men
The ladder's [E]been brutal but the payoff
is [F]just around the [Am]corner
[Esus4]Call in the rein[E]forcements

[Verse 4]
[Am]you're working hard on
a [F]life of your own
[C]Three square meals and
a [G]place to call home
But you [Dm]keep getting lost each time [F]you
walk out your front [E]door[F][G]
[Am]Me I've got a family I know
[F]real well what it means
To [C]make sure there's enough
food on the [G]table each day
But [Dm]I'd rather starve than be
a [F]whore for an empty living

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