Key: E minor
Verse 1
Em
A
Em
Asus4
A
Em
D
People,
A
C#
Bm
waves crammed into caves,
F#m
Bm
C#
wooden boats and glowing bones,
F#m
C#m
C#
tiny light and tiny fights,
F#m
C#m
A
Am
cigarettes and TV sets.
F
Em
Bm
Rusty bats and ugly hats,
Em
Bm
de siccated noonless glooms,
Em
Bm
mold for shoes and spores for keeps,
Em
Bm
fluorescent teeth and looning tooth.
A
Em
nothing works, nothing works,
A
Bm
Em
Am
that's not the way
things work.
Bm
C#m
Inuit scrawls along the walls
F#m
Bm
C#
C#m
by barking kids on gasoline,
F#m
D
C#
windows drawn on granite lawns
F#m
Bm
C#
and cur tains over stony trees.
A
Am
Someone on their feet
has slinged the ground
and the snow in spades.
F
Em
Bm
B
Half -wits crawls along the walls,
Em
Bm
children short on oxygen,
Em
Bm
windows scratched on granite lawns,
Nothing works.
A
Em
Nothing works.
Nothing works.
A
Bm
A
Bm
C#
F#m
Bm
C#m
F#m
C#m
That's not the way things work.
F#m
C#
C#m
A
Am
F
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
Bm
Em
A
Em
A
Bm
Em
Am
Asus4
Am
Em
Bm
C#
Half -wit scrawls along the walls,
F#m
C#
but children short on oxygen
F#m
C#
Windows scratched on granted lawns
F#m
Bm
C#
and numbers on the clocks again
A
Am
Rusty bats and ugly hats
Em
Bm
Molded shoes and spores that keep
Em
Bm
fluorescent teeth and loony tunes
Em
Bm
Endless desiccated noons,
Em
Bm
fluorescent teeth and loony tunes
Em
Am
Em
Nothing works, nothing works,
Am
Em
nothing, nothing works
F#m
C#
I'm into balding strategies
C#
F#m
The way a speed bump becomes a belly
C#
F#m
If your kid's knees sag,
F#m
C#
You're into peanut butter and jelly
F#m
Bm
C#
I'm into orange juice an d lithium
Bm
C#
becomes Pi co in Sepulveda
F#m
Bm
And evangelists rain like
Em
E
sweat from a toupee
But eternity comes down to hours
And a minute makes a tough guy a cower
And no man tours a termite hill
Oh, but your expanding polish is falling out.
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