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This Funeral Is For The Wrong Corpse (Full Version) chords by The Mekons

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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You're deliberate,
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us out of board
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You clean up the ashes
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an d we light the fire
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They're clearing up to dance
on socialism's grave
This funeral, this funeral's
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for the wrong cause
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This is my testimony
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A dinosaur's confession
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But how can something
really be dead
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When it hasn't even happened?
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Gm
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Democracy is an alibi
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The peaceful country is
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an ordinary cemetery
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What I call a sane man
is now an impotent man
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This funeral's for the wrong corpse
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This is my testimony,
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a dinosaur's confession
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How can something really be dead
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when it hasn't even happened?
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Snot bombs replace the dumb bombs,
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we can aim right into
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someone's kitchen
And the rice frays from the cooking pot
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Into the eye's delicate jelly
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When the natural order gets unruly
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The cost of living starts going up
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That makes a man's life
worth so much less
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This funeral's for the low cost
In the boring land of the snoring man
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Where happiness is the
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taste of a sausage
And revolution is a powder for your wash
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Glory in the greatness of a toilet soap
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And a man falls in love with a motor
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He trades his tractor for a microwave
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Now we're all X -Tractor fans
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Moving over to the Golden State
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Digging up bones, tired old tails
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They undertake to drive in nails
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Too well escorted, are you safe so far?
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This funeral's for the wrong cause
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This is my testimony,
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a dinosaur's confession
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But how can something
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really be dead
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when it hasn't even happened?
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Dm
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You're dead and buried,
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ours are reborn
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You clean up the ashes,
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we light the fire
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They're queuing up to dance
on socialism's grave
This funeral, this funeral,
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this funeral's for the wrong cause

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Interlude 1
This funeral is wrong for the cause
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Verse 2
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It's true, all right
Verse 3
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But explain to us
Verse 4
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How come in there, baby?
How come in there, child?
Verse 5
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We're gonna work it out sometime
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Verse 6
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Down in the dark
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we've been wood mining
Verse 7
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We're caught in the
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light of the rising moon
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Heads on our palms at Volcano Lobby
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We're gonna work it out soon
So hang on in there, baby
Hang on in there, child
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We're gonna work it out sometime
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Hang on in there, baby
Hang on in there now
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This new love is for the wrong cause
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