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The Long Arm Of The Law by Jude Joseph
The Long Arm Of The Law
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:Dm
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
Gm
[Verse 1]
Dm F C
Well the long arm of the law first reached out to me when I was just sixteen
Gm
Said "why you loiterin around here, boy?
Dm F C
You're lookin all suspicious with them shifty brown eyes, wild hair
Gm
A coloured person in this suburb's a surprise
Dm F C
Well you'd best move along before someone gets the wrong idea
Gm
The council flats are two blocks that way, better run the whole way"
Dm F
I told him I don't need no council flats
C Gm
The Ministry of Housing's got my back with something slightly less dilapidated
Dm F
Antiquated heater spitting poison right into our lungs
C Gm
Yeah, carbon monoxide's always been my kind of high
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
[Verse 2]
Dm
I don't mean to complain
F C Gm
All I'm saying is with the way in which we're living, may as well be laying in
a grave
Dm F C
We live and breathe in spaces smaller than the mausoleums
Gm
Housing corpses of our lords and masters born with more than
Dm F
We should even consider being allowed to own
C A
They sold us a tomb so we made it a home
Dm F
Every skyscraper's a headstone, don't you know?
C Gm
It's for every worker coerced, fingers grinded to the bone
Dm F
It's for the people building towers for a minimum wage
C Gm
Selling labour for crumbs in an uneven exchange
Dm F
It's for the peasants who were bred to spend their lives inside a cage
C Gm
Every prisoner locked up for petty crime and made into a slave
Dm F
The long arm of the law, it's always reaching out for more
C Gm Dm F C Gm
With a finger on the trigger of a standard issue just outside your door
Dm F
Yeah the long arm of the law, it's always reaching out for more
C Gm Dm F
With a finger on the trigger of a standard issue just outside your door
C Gm
Just outside your door
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
[Verse 3]
Dm F
We're lighting flames just praying something's gonna catch
C
We're setting boots to asphalt, stopping cities
Gm Dm
All to show them that they've met their match
F
And through the sprays that fill the noses that we pay them through
C Gm
The view of a solution is obscured and bruised, black and blue
Dm F C
Reminiscent of our skin as rubber bullets bounce off arms and chests
Gm
No second guesses, no, we're never gonna rest
Dm F
Till the long arm of the law is disembodied, broken, bleeding
C Gm
Until it's not a crime to find somewhere that's safe to sleep
Dm F C
But the battle drags on, and drags on, and drags on, and drags on
Gm Dm
We burn their flags on the street, we have no option but attack
F
In a world where there's more vacant homes than homeless people
C Gm
Millions dying of hunger while the dumpsters hold enough to feed them
Dm F C
There's entertainers getting paid to stuff their faces with a meal
Gm Dm F
That could feed families of ten or so, but that's just not the way it goes
C Gm Dm F C Gm
Sit and watch while the dumpster overflows
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C A
Dm F C Gm
[Verse 4]
Dm F
I feel this overwhelming sickness being a witness
C Gm
To just how this system victimises people who just need assistance
Dm F C
Vilification of the hungry and the weak as greedy ticks that need eradicating
Gm Dm F
No use in elaborating on why they're there in the first place
C Gm
Who imposed the social stigmas based in gender, class and race
Dm F
Why are there kids being electrocuted to cleanse their sexuality?
C Gm
Why are sex workers' accounts being frozen, why are they in jeopardy?
Dm F
Why are brown people in cages hunger striking on Manus?
C
I need some answers, goddammit
Gm Dm
I'm gagging on madness being jammed down my throat
F C Gm
All I get is silent stares as fanfares declare the end of what we hold dear
Dm F C Gm
And I'm pretty fucking scared
Dm F C Gm
[Outro]
Dm F
Well the long arm of the law, it's always reaching out for more
C Gm
With a finger on the trigger of a standard issue just outside your
Dm F
Long arm of the law, it's always reaching out for more
C Gm
With a finger on the trigger of a standard issue just outside your
Dm F
Long arm of the law, it's always reaching out for more
C Gm Dm F C Gm
With a finger on the trigger of a standard issue just outside your door
Dm F C Gm
Dm F C
Well the long arm of the law first reached out to me when I was just sixteen
Gm
Said 'why you loiterin around here boy?'
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