Running With The Wild Things Chords
Running With The Wild Things by Against The Current is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords Em, G, D, C and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
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!
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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