The Offspring - This Is Not Utopia: chords

                       F#m   D A
Like a shot without a warning
        E                F#m D A E
Lies a life that's left behind
      F#m               D                A
And though I try, it's something I just can't unsee
      E              F#m D A
It's burned into my mind
       E              F#m   D A
And I wake up in the morning
             E            F#m D A E
News keeps flashing on my eyes
       F#m                D
These dying streets are bruised and beaten
     A              E
And riot flags are waving
 F#m              D
Poor and weak, we extend this streak
       A                 E
These lives we could be saving
 D
Life is cheap I sit and weep
         Bm
'Cause there's just no mistaking

Chorus:
C#m
Oh, this is not utopia
     F#m        D          A         E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
         F#m        D          A            E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
     F#m        D          A           E         F#m
The roots, the roots, the rules don't matter anymore
  E
This is not utopia
     F#m        D          A         E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
         F#m        D          A            E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
     F#m      D        A         E         F#m
And you, and you, and you don't matter anymore

The better angels of our nature
Well, they've gone away to hide
Brutality I can't unsee
These pictures are just burned into my mind
It's commotion in slow motion
It's humanity denied
A violent race, punch in the face
With all this hate, how can we all survive?

           D
And if a change is coming
               E
What makes it take so long?
           D
And if a change is coming
              C#m      E
Why sing the same old song?

Chorus

  F#m
This is not utopia
     F#m        D          A         E
The roots, the roots, the roots of America
         F#m        D          A            E
Are the roots, the roots, the roots of hysteria
     F#m      D        A         E         F#m
And you, and you, and you don't matter anymore
  F#m
This is not utopia

        D            E
So how long must we wait?
       D             E
Until love conquers hate?
                D
And heal these hearts
                C#m   E     F#m
'Cause it all starts right here