Ren (Ren Gill) – Dominoes (Guitar)

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[Intro] Am C G G Am C G G [Chorus]
             Am         C              G         G
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

             Am         C              G         G
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

    Dm                             C
  You build us up just to knock us back down

G                    Am
Funny, how you act surprised when we hit the ground

            Am            C              G         G
We're like domino, dominoes, dominoes falling
[Verse 1]
F      Em        Am          Am
  So bleed me of all my self-belief

F      Em        Am          Am
  My smile shows all my insecuri-teeth

F      Em        Am          Am
 In a kingdom of photoshopped kings and queens

F                Em
 We'll never feel happy with ourselves

Am               Am
 But insecurity sells
[Chorus]
                      Am            C              G         G
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

                      Am            C              G         G
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

Dm                             C
  You build us up just to knock us back down

G                                    Am
Funny, how you act surprised when we hit the ground

            Am            C              G         G
We're like domino, dominoes, dominoes falling
[Verse 2]
F      Em        Am          Am
 I hide my head under the sheets

F      Em        Am          Am
 'Cause how can I face a world that ridicules the weak?

F                            Em
 Where beauty is sold on the shelves

Am                     Am
Forbid that we find it in ourselves

F         Em           Am          Am
 And, and now I'm broke, it don't come cheap
[Chorus]
                      Am            C              G         G
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

                      Am            C              G         G
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

Dm                             C
  You build us up just to knock us back down

G                                    Am
Funny, how you act surprised when we hit the ground

            Am            C              G         G
We're like domino, dominoes, dominoes falling
[Verse 3]
   A
Ariah was the most beautiful girl in this world

                    C#m                     B
She shined like diamonds and rubies and pearls

              A
But then as soon as she turned 13

                      C#m                         E
She forgot just how bright that it was that she gleamed

              A
Stuck in a material world of magazines

                      C#m                 B
That glamourize the fake and photoshopped beauty queens

           A
Top ten beauty tips making her feel inadequate

               F                          G
For the first time in her life she felt ugly
[Verse 3]
        F
So Ariah stopped eating to lose weight

                      Am                            G
She spent her dinner money on some make up for her face

                              F
But no matter how much she'd lost
Or how much she bought
                       Am
She was never good enough

               G
Or so she thought

                                F
Ariah felt she could never be loved

                         Am                                G
She started cutting her wrists and hiding her scars with gloves

      F                                              Am                        G
At 16, an anorexic beauty queen, she collapses in a puddle of her tears and blood

                       F
'Cause she never felt enough

                   F
She never felt enough

                        Am                             G
You sell us all this lie that we must buy to keep in touch

                         F
But we can never buy enough, never buy enough

                            Am                         G
All the riches in the world can't buy a sense of self love

                   F
Funny how you act surprised when depression levels rise

                      Am                          G
When you force feed inadequacy straight into our eyes

            F
Television shows that praise the beautiful people

                                   Am                G
And talent competitions that just laugh at the feeble
[Verse 4]
               F
Billboards, magazines, people turned to plasticine

               Am                           G
Moulded like a factory, we're growing up to fear feeling ugly

        F
It's lunacy

                                      Am
A knife in the community, 'cause insecurity breeds judgment

 G                          F
Judgment breeds hate, not unity

                                                            Am                       G
And hierarchy based upon aesthetics is what makes a kid in school get bullied for genetics

              F
And I felt so ugly growing up

               Am                             G
The way that I looked sometimes got me beaten up

                 F
I mean what the fuck?

                        F
Sort of culture do we live in

               Am                       G
When we're defined by the shape of our face

            F
When we're ashamed by the size of our waist

               Am                          G
When we're imprisoned by the form that we take

               F
And so we keep buyin' and spendin'

            Am              G
That's just how this story goes

F
You build us up just to knock us back down
N.C. And we just keep falling N.C. Like dominoes