Key: Gb major
Intro 1
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F
Eb
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Eb
Ab
Eb
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Eb
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Eb
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Eb
Ab
Verse 1
Ab
Eb
Wake up, you sleepy head
F
Fm
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Ab
Eb
Put another log on the fire for me
Bb
F
I've made some breakfast and coffee
Ab
Eb
Look out my window, what do I see
C
Fm
A crack in the sky and a hand
Gb
Fm
reaching down to me
Eb
All the nightmares came today
Ab
And it looks as though they're here to
Interlude 1
stay
Ab
Eb
F
C
Gsus4
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Ab
Verse 2
Eb
What are we coming to?
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Fm
Ab
No room for me, no fun for you
Eb
I think about a world to come
Bb
Where the books were found
F
by the golden ones
Ab
Eb
Written in pain, written in awe
C
Fm
By a puzzled man who questioned
Gb
Fm
What we were here for
Eb
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though
Ab
they're here to stay
Verse 3
Ab
Cm
F
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you pretty
Fm
things)
Eb
Don't you know you're driv
Ab
ing your
Db
Gb
Ab
Mamas and papas in sane?
Cm
F
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you
Fm
pretty things)
Eb
Don't you know you're driving your
Db
Ab
Mamas and papas insane?
Bb
Let me make it plain
Eb
Gotta make way for the
Db
Ab
Homo Superior
Eb
Look out at your children
Verse 4
F
Fm
See their faces in golden rays
Ab
Eb
Don't kid yourself, they belong to you
Bb
They're the start of the
F
coming race
Ab
The earth is a bitch
Eb
We've finished our news
C
Fm
Homo Sapiens have
Gb
Fm
outgrown their use
Eb
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though
Ab
they're here to stay
Verse 5
Ab
Cm
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you
F
Fm
pretty things)
Eb
Don't you know you're driving your
Db
Ab
Mamas and papas insane?
Cm
Oh, you pretty things (oh, you
F
Fm
pretty things)
Eb
Don't you know you're driving your
Db
Mamas and papas insane?
Ab
Bb
Let me make it plain
Eb
Db
Ab
G
Gotta make way for the Homo Superior
Outro 1
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F
Eb
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Eb
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Eb
D
A
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