Pain chords by Oingo Boingo

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Welcome to my little world...completely self-contained, yeah
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Your problems they will soon be gone
(we soak up lots of pain), yeah
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Verse 2

If life is a reflecting pool--then we

we are like a sponge, yeah

Absorbing the good with the bad--we

soak up...soak it up

Verse 3

So give me all your troubled

thoughts

And baggage you can't handle, no

We'll gladly take it off your back (we soak up lots of

Interlude 1

pain), yeah

Verse 4
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(Chorus) Is it any
wonder now-everybody
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goes goes insane
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Everybody locks the door to keep
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out any strangers
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Everybody's all pent up--everybody's
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got got short fuse
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Getting ready to  blow up,
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we live in so much danger

Verse 5
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Boys and girls in a line -- Come
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and get your big reward
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Your're not too late Just in time
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Put your hand on mine
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you're mine you're mine

Verse 6
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When everybody has gone to bed--and
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children children are asleep, yeah
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I sit up late and watch t.v. (and soak up
lots of pain), yeah
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Verse 7

Little junior on the bus--his notebook

notebook by his side, yeah

He hardly ever makes a fuss--he

soaks soaks up so much pain

Verse 8

We've traveled far this monkey and me--by

airplane airplane boat and train, yeah

We're here to eat up all your sins (and soak up all your pain), yeah

Interlude 2

Verse 9
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Boys and girls of every creed--religion
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and and persuasion, nooo
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It's time to get up off your
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knees...we soak up...soak it up
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So open the door and let me in--don't
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question question who I am, no
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Just shake my hand and give me your name
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(we soak up...soak it up...)