Key: E major•
Intro 1
E
B
E
C#m
B
E
B
E
C#m
B
E
Verse 1
A
E
Everybody looks so ill at ease
E
A
Running down the table
F#m
A
B
I see a borderline
Em
B
Like a barbed wire fence
Em
B
Strung tight, strung tense
Em
B
Prickling with pretense
Verse 2
G#m
F#
B
F#
Why are you smirking at your friend?
B
E
ends?
A
E
A
All credibility revoked?
A
B
Can we blame it on the smoke
Interlude 1
E
B
C#m
B
E
B
C#m
B
E
Verse 3
A
E
Every bristling shaft of pride
Church or nation
A
E
Team or tribe
F#m
A
B
Is just a borderline
Em
B
Good or bad, we think we know
Em
B
As if thinking makes things so
Em
Baug
All convictions grow along
Verse 4
F#
F#
B
You scathe the wonder
world
G#m
B
E
And you praise barbarity
A
E
In this illusionary place
A
E
This scared, hard-edged rat rat race
A
B
All liberty is laced with
Interlude 2
E
B
C#m
B
E
B
C#m
B
E
Verse 5
A
E
Every income, every age
E
rage
F#m
B
Creates a borderline
Em
B
Every stone thrown through glass
Baug
Em
B
Every mean-streets kickass
Em
Baug
Every swan caught on the grass
Verse 6
F#
B
G#m
So ripe and ready
B
E
To diminish and deride
A
E
You're so quick to condescend
E
A
All you deface, all you defend
B
E
B
E
C#m
B
Is just a borderline
E
B
E
C#m
E
Just a borderline
B
E
B
C#m
Another borderline
Outro 1
E
B
C#m
C#m
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B C#m A F#m...
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