Key: Bb minor
Verse 1
C#m
D
From ar istocrat to bum
C#m
E
Why, I've even invented some
G#
E
A
I've soared to the heights
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G#
I've sunk to the depths
G#
A
When faced with a choice,
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G#
F#
B
I say to myself, Potemkin my friend,
F#m
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
sur vive, just sur
C#m
G#
C#m
A
G#
vive.
C#m
A
C#m
Sometimes at night,
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C#
when it is dark,
C#m
A
C#m
G#
I spot a pi geon in the park.
A
G#
An d then I croon,
F#
C#m
F#
coo -roo -coo -coo,
F#m
B
C#m
won't you join me in a pigeon
C#sus4
C#m
stew?
F#m
C#m
Sometimes a day when people pass,
C#sus4
C#m
F#m
I eat my pride
G#
G#m
B
kind sir, I squeak,
F#m
B
won't you kindly kick
C#m
F#m
Time and time again,
F#m
C#m
Stand up like a man,
F#m
A
change the world today.
C#m
B
A
Fight for what is right, die heroically.
E
B
A
C#m
B
Then I start to think
C#m
G#
how messy death must be.
C#
C#m
F#m
So come with me,
C#
C#m
C#
G#
G#m
an d I will show
C#m
F#m
C#m
Oh, you, all the crooked tricks I know.
G#
B
and we'll connive,
F#m
B
C#sus4
C#
C#m
F#m
C#m
F#m
But it's worth it all if we survive.
C#m
F#m
C#m
A
F#m
G#
F#m
F#
F#m
B
C#sus4
C#m
C#
C#m
F#m
C#m
So come with us, and we will show
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C#
C#m
F#m
You all the crooked
G#
B
and we'll connive
F#m
A
B
C#
But it's worth it all if we survive
C#m
F#m
A
F#m
G#m
May be we eat black,
F#m
C#m
but we survive
F#m
B
A
G#m
Maybe we lack pride,
C#sus4
C#m
but we survive
F#m
G#m
B
F#m
Maybe we all lie, but we can justify it
Bbdim
A
B
do whatever you've got to
F#m
C#m
It is worth it,
A
B
all if you just stay alive, survive
F#
F#m
C#m
I'm just so high
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