Key: F major
Intro 1
A
Esus4
Asus2
Esus4
Em
Verse 1
Bm
A
F#m
give or take a sum,
D
F#m
G
Em
The sum of that experience
Em
D
Bm
O I know justice,
G
A
it's a birthright if you're born right,
D
G
Bm
and I know how handsome is
G
A
that trick of the light,
G
Em
thinking I'll do right
A
D
G
A
given the chance to do wrong
D
G
D
Em
again and again.
Verse 2
Bm
A
casing the park,
F#m
G
by the uniform urinals of
Em
A
love's rural province.
Em
D
Bm
O don't you know time,
G
A
with its petty vial of sands,
D
Bm
G
A
inscrutable face and merciless hands?
G
Em
It's a whirlwind of feathers,
A
D
tickles you to your nethers and
G
Em
leaves a terrain of despair…
Verse 3
D
Bm
And I know when grief goes unchecked,
F#m
G
Em
There's a kind of relief in the wreckage
A
Em
for the wrecked…
Verse 4
Bm
last
Em
A
the world and the war?
D
Bm
O I know young fathers who
G
A
once were like soldiers,
D
Bm
AWOL in flung places
G
A
or without standing orders,
G
Em
A
to time and it's killing,
D
G
A
G
A
Em
D
no victimless crime again and again.
Bm
F#m
Interlude 1
G
Em
A
D
Bm
G
A
D
Bm
G
A
Verse 5
Em
D
Monday night,
Bm
F#m
Goodies and The Doctor,
Em
A
time for pyjamas.
D
Bm
O I know self pity,
G
A
it begins with nostalgia,
D
Bm
and you'll die of melancholy
G
A
if the dolor don't get ya,
G
Em
wall next to a picture
A
D
of a dick and a fanny,
G
A
by a smear of regret.
Verse 6
Em
D
Bm
And it sings of its own long demise,
F#m
G
something about im perium,
Em
A
and a new sun will rise,
D
Bm
G
A
and "O please don't go with those horrible guys,
D
G
they only want one thing."
Em
D
Bm
G
A
O please don't go with those horrible guys,
D
G
they only want one thing,
A
G
A
G
A
Em
Again an d again.
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