Fish - Weltschmerz Chords

[Intro]
D
 
[Verse]
D                                       C       Em7          D
Please let me introduce myself I'm simply a man of our time
                                C                     D
Confused and bewildered I seem to live without reason nor rhyme
                             C          D
Betrayed by a system I'd given up trying to change
                                   C    D
Let me tell you now for nothing, I'm back in the game
                        C         G             D
I've gorged on the knowledge feasted on the digital feed
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I've discerned through my wisdom that all cannot be believed
                                    C           D
I've reached the conclusion that we have all been deceived
                                                C     D
And that our freedoms and democracy are not what they seem
 
[Chorus]
  D#    Cm      D      D#       Cm    D    D#      Cm
Weltschmerz,         weltschmerz,        weltschmerz
 
[Verse]
                                           C     Em7          D
I am a grey bearded warrior, a poet of no mean acclaim
                                             C     Em7              D
My words are my weapons that I proffer with disdain
                               C              Em7         D
My melancholy aspect is something you can't disregard
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My motives you cannot question nor my strong sense of right and wrong
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I've formed the opinion that things can't stay as they are
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My anger and my fury trapped like a wasp in a jar
G                             D#          G
It's never too late to make a brave new start
                  D                                             D#
When the revolution is called I will play my part
 
[Chorus]
       Cm      D       D#    Cm    D       D#   Cm        D
Weltschmerz,     weltschmerz,         weltschmerz
 
[Bridge]
D
There was a time my moral compass was spinning out of control
                                            G                D
I retired from the barricades, dug myself a very deep hole
D
I came to in a country I once considered a home
D
That has been lost to the scoundrels
                               G               D
And the rogues and a circus of clowns
 
[Verse]
D                                      C              Em7              D
The heavens roll thunder, I raise my face to the rain
                                 C             Em7        D
With my feet in cold ashes of all that remains
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If we'd listened to the children and heeded their call
                         C                    G       D
Risen to the challenge at an earlier bell
       G
The fight isn't over, this war still has to be won
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On an unlevel playing field the conflicts rage on
        G
Stand up to be counted, stand up to be heard
                                          D
Stand up at the barricades stand up for your world
 
Cm  D   D#m  Cm
D  D#m  D   Cm
 
[outro]
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Weltschmerz – the homeless and starving
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Weltschmerz – the bombed and the burnt
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Weltschmerz – the poor and the lonely
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Weltschmerz – the forgotten and spurned
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The shells of cathedrals, the smouldering grass
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The plum dark tornadoes, fluttering flags
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The queues at the foodbanks, the raging typhoons
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The gangs on the corner, the shadows that groom
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The fading of dahlias, the forests of fire
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The walls in the desert
D
The rapture is near