Roger Waters – Is This The Life We Really Want (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Roger Waters From: “Is This The Life We Really Want?” (2017) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Capo 1st fret to match Waters’ recording. For original chords transpose +1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CHORDS
        E-A-D-G-B-e
D7/C    x-3-x-2-1-2
C/Bb    x-1-2-0-1-0
Bb/Ab   4-x-3-3-3-x
Abmaj7  4-x-5-5-4-x
Ab/Gb   2-x-1-1-1-x
Gaug    3-x-1-0-0-3 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Donald Trump:] "As an example, your ... CNN. I mean it's story, after story, after story is bad. I won. I won. And the other thing: 'chaos' - there's zero chaos. We are running - this is a fine-tuned machine..." [Intro] | F#m | % | D7 | % | D7/C | % | C# | % | | F#m | % | D | % | D7/C | % | C# | % | | Em | [Verse 1]
Em                     C
  The goose has gotten fat

   C/Bb
On caviar and fancy bars

    B                   B7
And subprime loans, and broken homes
[Verse 2]
   Em                      C
Is this the life, the holy grail?

     C/Bb
It's not enough that we succeed

   B                    B7
We still need others to fail
[Verse 3]
Dm                                    Bb
Fear, fear drives the mills of modern man

                     Bb/Ab
Fear keeps us all in line

A                                               A7
Fear of all those foreigners, fear of all their crimes
[Verse 4]
   Dm                      Bb
Is this the life we really want?

Bb/Ab
 It surely must be so

    A
For this is a democracy and what we all say goes
[Interlude] | Cm | % | Abmaj7 | % | Ab/Gb | % | G | Gaug | [Verse 5]
    Cm
And every time a student is run over by a tank

    Abmaj7
And every time a pirate's dog is forced to walk the plank

Ab/Gb
Every time a Russian bride is advertised for sale

    G
And every time a journalist is left to rot in jail
[Verse 6]
Cm
Every time a young girl's life is casually spent

    Abmaj7
And every time a nincompoop becomes the president

Ab/Gb
Every time somebody dies reaching for their keys

    G                               Gaug
And every time that Greenland falls in the fucking sea it's because
[Verse 7]
Cm
All of us, the blacks and whites, Chicanos, Asians - every type

   Abmaj7
Of ethnic group, even folks from Guadaloupe, the old, the young

Ab/Gb
Toothless hags, supermodels, actors, fags, bleeding hearts

G
Football stars, men in bars, washer women, tailors, tarts
[Verse 8]
Cm
Grannies, grandpas, uncles, aunts, friends, relations, homeless tramps

Abmaj7
Clerics, truckers, cleaning ladies, ants

Ab/Gb
  Maybe not ants (Why not ants?) Well, because it's true

    G
The ants don't have enough IQ to differentiate between
[Verse 9]
    Cm
The pain that other people feel and well, for instance, cutting leaves

   Abmaj7
Or crawling across window sills in search of open treacle tins

   Ab/Gb
So like the ants, are we just dumb? Is that why we don't feel or see

   G                               G7
Or are we all just numbed out on reality TV?
[Verse 10]
   Cm
So every time

            Abmaj7
The curtain falls

Ab/Gb
Every time the curtain falls on some forgotten life

   G
It is because we all stood by silent and indifferent

     Cm
It's normal!