Key: Gb major
Intro 1
F#
F#
E
D
F#
F#
E
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
Verse 1
G
D
Wake up, you sleepy head
E
Em
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
G
D
Put another log on the fire for me
A
E
I've made some breakfast and coffee
G
D
Look out my window, what do I see
B
Em
A crack in the sky and a hand
F
Em
reaching down to me
D
All the nightmares came today
G
And it looks as though they're here to
Interlude 1
stay
G
D
E
B
F#sus4
F#
G
Verse 2
D
What are we coming to?
E
Em
G
No room for me, no fun for you
D
I think about a world to come
A
Where the books were found
E
by the golden ones
G
D
Written in pain, written in awe
B
Em
By a puzzled man who questioned
F
Em
What we were here for
D
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though
G
they're here to stay
Verse 3
G
Bm
E
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty
Em
things)
D
Don't you know you're driv
G
ing your
C
F
G
Mamas and papas in sane?
Bm
E
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you
Em
pretty things)
D
Don't you know you're driving your
C
G
Mamas and papas insane?
A
Let me make it plain
D
Gotta make way for the
C
G
Homo Superior
D
Look out at your children
Verse 4
E
Em
See their faces in golden rays
G
D
Don't kid yourself, they belong to you
A
They're the start of the
E
coming race
G
The earth is a bitch
D
We've finished our news
B
Em
Homo Sapiens have
F
Em
outgrown their use
D
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though
G
they're here to stay
Verse 5
G
Bm
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you
E
Em
pretty things)
D
Don't you know you're driving your
C
G
Mamas and papas insane?
Bm
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you
E
Em
pretty things)
D
Don't you know you're driving your
C
Mamas and papas insane?
G
A
Let me make it plain
D
C
G
F#
Gotta make way for the Homo Superior
Outro 1
F#
E
D
F#
F#
E
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
C#
Ab
F#
F#
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