The Authority Box chords by
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock

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Key: Gb major
Intro 1
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Dsus4
Dsus4

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Dsus4
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D
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Verse 1
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The Authority Box
and the headgrenade
Love is in the blade
Noone ever touches
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C

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D
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Everybody watches everyone
Verse 2
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When the spoilt child
Hits middle age
Wants to turn the page
C
C

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The page is stuck with blood
D
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And you know whose blood it is
'That will do nicely'
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Step this way sir
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After you'
Verse 3
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C
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I call your name
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but you don't hear me
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I call your name
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But you're nowhere
near me anyway
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Verse 4
Sweet 53
My pink is red
Unscrew my head
C
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Failure rips into my 'you're
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too old for this'
With your vanity on
So dual key
So freedom fries
So Texas vow
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C

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You and your wife have teeth alive,
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Dsus4
Dsus4

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now haven't you?
C
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Figure I know your love is
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Dsus4
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nothing personal
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I call your name
Verse 5
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C
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But you don't hear me anyway
Verse 6
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When the sun goes down
I'm a lonely boy
with a lonely kiss
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Say what you like about this
Dsus4
Dsus4

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But I'll never ever bother
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you
Verse 7
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I'm stepping out of my disease
with a CEO and a budget horn
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You just married a guy who didn't
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know it yet
Nothing wrong with failure
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D
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Everybody does it
Verse 8
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Can you hear me?
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Can you hear me?
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Verse 9
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G
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Ah fuck me I'm a trolley bus
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Yeah fuck me-
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- I'm a trolley bus
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G
G

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Whoah fuck me-
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- I'm a trolley bus
Outro 1
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