Absolute Power

[Intro]
| C#m | - | - | D |
| C#m | - | - |

[Verse 1]
D E     C#m
   Your heart, your home, your voice,
it’s got a price tag
B
 Sign in blood,
bury your rights in a body bag
C#m
   They’re feeding fear through the fault lines
    B
You heard it here first,
they got your freedoms on the front line
C#m
Primetime, the noose at our throats
    A                            B
Our liberties hands run with the blood of the scapegoats
C#m
   So tell me how can we demonize
                        B
When we can’t see life through another’s eyes

[Pre-Chorus]
C#m
   Pay 'em off and play 'em off
Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
But in the eyes of the storm
                       C#m
The truth drops like a bomb

[Chorus]
The truth drops like a bomb
          D     E
The battle is on

[Verse 2]
C#m
Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars
B
Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge?
    C#m
The past you know has been written by the victor
     B
So I ask you now,
who is it writing your future?
    C#m
The butcher, the liar,
the thief or the killer?
     A                         B
Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power
C#m
Starved for peace,
we’ll eat war until it kills us Six feet deep with a
   B                 C#m
belly full of bullets

[Pre-Chorus]
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
But in the eyes of the storm
                       C#m
The truth drops like a bomb

[Chorus]
The truth drops like a bomb
          D     E
The battle is on

[Bridge]
C#m D C#m E    C#m
           The hate runs deep,
                  B
but our hopes cut deeper
       C#m                                          B
Now we walk through the valley in the shadow of the reaper
      C#m
Money talks,
                              B
and it’s speaking in tongues
           C#m                                        B
They put a price on our soul like they had already won
         C#m
Now open wide,
                        B
I see their jaws locked tight
C#m                                        B
Silent in the moment like prey in the floodlights
    C#m                           B
The signal is static, baptised in fire
       C#m                                          B
Now we see how they talk with a mouth full of barbed wire
C#m            B C#m
Absolute power,  absolute power,
B C#m           B
  absolute power
C#m                         B
Absolute power corrupts absolutely

[Chorus]
C#m            B C#m
Absolute power,  absolute power,
B C#m           B
  absolute power
C#m
Absolute power corrupts
          B            C#m
The truth drops like a bomb
The truth drops like a bomb
          D     E
The battle is on The truth drops like a…

[Outro]
C#m D        C#m      E               C#m
    Absolute power corrupts absolutely