33) Heavy Foot (by Mon Rovi

Half step down from original (Guitar Capo on 3)

(B major → B-flat major)

Verses 1,2:

G                   D                  C

Do you hear the sound of the bell

Did you wish your family well?

Times ain't the same in the neighborhood

Got the parents all going through hell

Cause the guns keep flying off the shelf

Do you see the man on the street

Just fighting for a meal to eat

You can write him off as a lunatic

But it coulda been you or me

If we didn't ever find our feet

Chorus:

G       C   

Love me now

Hold me down

      G

And the government’s

D         C

Stayin’ on heavy foot

      G       D           C

And they try to keep us all down

      G                 D                C

No they never gonna keep us all down 

Verses 3,4:

Do you see the birds in the cage

On the highway working like slaves

It's a con, it's a ruse, it's a gaslight

Ain't it funny how far we came

For them to go and change the name

Do you see the man on the screen

Just a puppet but you never see the strings

Calling it a war and not a genocide

Telling us it isn't what it seems

Man that's a different kind of greed

[optional additional verse in honor of the protesters at Delaney Hall in Newark]

Did you see the kids at the Hall?

They were crying out to free them all

Troopers pushed ‘em out with the gas cans

To protect all our public safety

Guess the free speech zone wasn’t free

Final Chorus:

Love me now

Hold me down

And the government’s

Stayin’ on heavy foot

And they try to keep us all down

Repeat then add:

No they never gonna keep us all down (x3) 

(guitar end on "G")