Running With The Wild Things
Against The Current
RockMedium for beginners5 chords
How to play it
Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.
Em
G
D
C
Am
Chords & lyrics
Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.
Capo on 2nd fret Intro: Em G D Em Oo they don't hear us G D Read us bedtime stories from their textbooks Em Oo try to reign us in G D Blind to our intelligence Em Standardization of the masses G D Give us a number fail or pass us Em Education, manipulation G D Decide our fate but never ask us C D Em We're about to boil over C D Em You can't keep us down forever C G D Am We got too big for the cage, you locked us up in C G D Am Let's mark this down as the day, that we started something C G So open the gate, open the gate cause when we D Am Finally escape, finally escape we'll be C G D Tearing through the streets D Running with the wild things Em G D Em Hey why you waiting G D Quit carving notches to count the days ?cause Em They're losing power G D See ?em growing weaker by the hour C D Em We're about to boil over C D Em You can't keep us down forever C G D Am We got too big for the cage, you locked us up in C G D Am Let's mark this down as the day, that we started something C G So open the gate, open the gate cause when we D Am Finally escape, finally escape we'll be C G D Tearing through the streets D Running with the wild things Em G D Em G Standardization of the masses D Am Give us a number fail or pass us Em G Standardization of the masses D Am Give us a number fail or pass us Em G Education, manipulation D Am Decide our fate but never ask us Em G Education, manipulation D Am Decide our fate but never ask us Am Never ask us Am Never ask us! (no chords) We got too big for the cage, you locked us up in (no chords) Let's mark this down as the day, that we started something C G So open the gate, open the gate cause when we D Am Finally escape, finally escape we'll be C G D Tearing through the streets D Running with the wild things Em G D
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Chord set
Em · G · D · C · Am
Practice tip
Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.