Jesse Welles – Cancers Up (Guitar)

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As recorded by Jesse Welles (2025 release) [Verse 1]
                C
Well, there's a mountain on the bottle,

         E
But it's coming from the tap

         Am                          F
Take the water that you own and they sell it right back

       C                  E            Am
It's a citizen subsidized company infrastructure

     F                 G                     C
Coca Cola, Nestle, and Pepsi working capital wonders

       F                          G                    C
On the backs of the people at the forces to mow us all under
[Chorus]
         F             C
It's the commodified necessities

            G                 Am
You'd never understand the complexities.

E7                   Am      F
Somebody call up the doctor

          F         G
Cancer's up, mental illness is up

           C
Drink your water
[Verse 2]
C                                 E
There's a reservoir of water, a municipal station.

        Am                              F
There's pumps and there's pipes and the taxes you're paying

            C                       E
And there's billions of bottles and three bucks a pop

          Am                              F
Full of a pennies worth of water that you already bought

    C                       E                   Am     F
Ask any fish and he'll tell you blub blub is fantastic

    C
See turtles wearing necklaces

G                           C
Starving with a gut full of plastic
[Chorus]
         F             C
It's the commodified necessities

             G                 Am
You'll never understand the complexities

E7                 Am
Somebody call up a doctor

          F         G
Cancer's up, mental illness is up

           C
Drink your water
[Verse 3]
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In drought and in fire and natural disaster

          C                        Am
They keep making the bottles going faster and faster

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Filling the sky with their formaldehyde

        G                       N.C.
All the while they got the gall to tell me and you

                      C
Don't forget to recycle