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by The Riot Before


There's lots of palm muting and sometimes ringing out just listen for the changes.
Also when Brett plays C and Am sometimes he drops his pinkie on the third fret of the B 
He does this in the outro and in between verses.
Like so:
             
E ----0-0-----0-0---------|
B ----1-3-----1-3---------|
G ----0-0-----2-2---------|
D ----2-2-----2-2---------|
A ----3-3-----0-0---------|
E ----x-x------x-x--------|

Hope I could explain that well enough. Anyway it's a really fun song with awesome 
Hope you enjoy!


Tired muscles, tired eyes

Can't sleep through this Oaxacan night

He's kept away from dreaming, haunted by thoughts of failing

The family whom he shares a bed

A tiny room even less bread

He cries out to himself silently
                                          
I am not a man                no I am not a man
                                    
I am not a man  I can't feed my children
                      
This is no life for them

  


So he's out of bed with the sunrise

He kisses his wife and kids goodbye

Then heads north to the border To work, become a provider

But gathered at the country line

Are protesters all holding signs

He can't read but translates perfectly

                                       
I am not a man              No I am not a man
                                 
No I am not a man I'm just a Mexican

Illegal immigrant


The politicians the pundits the public debate
                           
But one question's lost in policy
                                              
"Is a man not a man if he's born outside a boundary?"

Stumbling through the desert alone and afraid
                     
He almost dies from the heat

But he thinks of his family and that keeps him going

He won't stop for death least the laws of a country G
Arrested is no threat
                              
when you're already living unfree

Unfree!


So he works the fields from 5 to 9

Plus any job that he can find

Saves up all his money, sends it to his family

Before he falls asleep at night

A thousand miles from his life

He assuredly repeats

                                      
I am a human                Yeah I am a human
                               
Yeah I am a human a father a husband
             
A global citizen

  

                                           
Not a debatable statistic
                                             
I'm not your problem economic
                                     
I'm not a threat to patriotic
            
That's idiotic
     
I  ...