Key: Db major
Verse 1
C
G
immortality blueprint was
C
A
drafted by the ancient
Egyptians.
G
C
G
First, you have to get yourself mummified,
Bm
D
C
an d that was very expensive,
Bm
C
making immortality a monopoly of the truly rich.
immortality in the
G
C
Western lands is entirely dependent on
the continued
G
A
existence of your mummy.
D
C
That is why they had their mummies
G
hid good.
GI
Ali and he's got enough
Baraka, enough energy to survive
his first physical death.
Well he won't
get far.
C#m
C
C#m
He's got no mommy, he's got no names,
A
C
he's got nothing.
A
G
D
What happens to a bum like
that, a nameless,
checkpoint.
C
F
He will be dismembered an d thrown
D
C
G
ut terly consumed and destroyed.
Bb
A
sail through to the western lands.
G
C
There are, course,
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D
squeeze through their mummies
Am
G
is not in a good sound condition.
in the third -rate transient hotels
G
Bm
G
Just beyond the last checkpoint
Charnel
House disposal ovens from
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A
C
Might as well face facts,
C#m
C
my mummy is going downhill.
Bm
C#m
D
I don't even feel like a human.
G
Bm
Cheap job to begin with.
C
F
God, maggots is crawling all over.
C
G
or the way that demon guard
looked at me this morning.
C
D
Transient hotels.
Am
C
Bm
A
And here you are in a luxury con
G
Bb
You got no security.
D
C
sneak into your tomb
Am
G
and throw asses on your mummy.
Am
out of it.
A
G
Oh, someone is fucking with my
C
mummy.
Let's face it, mummies are
sitting ducks.
No matter who you are, what can happen to your
mummy is a perilous
nightmare.
Floods, volcanoes, earthquakes.
G
friend is an
Egyptologist.
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C
In museums, they're safe from spiteful enemies,
scavengers and kept at a constant temperature,
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Blitz.
For
God, for
C
G
throat, without a tongue.
Kim decides this deal stinks like a dead
camel.
Long dead.
C
D
Anyone buying on a thing like that
should have his mummy examined.
The
Johnson's is taking over the
Am
Western
lands.
We bought it, we built it, we paid for it.
F
C
It's ours and we're gonna take it.
you
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