Key: G

Tuning: Standard EADGBe


Verse 1:
Bm- - D - G
       Stop the wrecking ball
Bm- - D - G
       Are you getting off?
Bm- - D - G               C
       This course in melodrama
                   Bm- - D - G
Wake me when it's over
                         Bm- - D - G
Thin skin we're whipped again
                 Bm- - D - G
They're merciless
            C
Flag wavers prey and prosper
               Bm- - D - G
Escape with me father
       Am Bm     G Am Bm
Come on     come on


Chorus 1:
C
  You and I have been around
Beaten up run out of town
         G
Don't say "God's planned 
    Am            Bm
the world we live in
G                   Am        Bm
  Take what you can get" it's written
C
  Earth shakes and waters rise

A plague hits my 
lover dies And you say
G              Am       Bm
  "Best of all possible worlds
G                 Am    Bm
  Get by while it all unfurls"


Verse 2:
Bm- - D - G
       Syphilis aren't 
you sick of this
Bm- - D - G
       Give me a hand
Bm- - D - G
        To the taking 
C
back of our fate
              Bm- - D - G
Believe in another
There's a little 
              Bm- - D - G
patch of land there
             Bm- - D - G
Just up ahead
                C
Slow and steady we can prosper
                  Bm- - D - G
Trot on with me father
       Am Bm     G Am Bm
Come on     come on


(Repeat Chorus 1)


Interlude: G- - F- - Am- - F#-- x2


Bridge:
G          F
  This land needs tiling
Am            F#
  Come on and help out
G       F
  The pirate swine
Am                F#
  We'll bluff and cop out
G   F
  oh yeah!!!
Am                 (hold)
  Your worlds just burn out


Chorus 2:
C
  You and I have been around
Beaten up run out of town
         G
Don't say "God's planned 
    Am            Bm
the world we live in
G                   Am        Bm
  Take what you can get" it's written
C
  Tragic comic repartee
This schlep has 
had it's day I say
G           Am       Bm
  Get by or you're a goner
G              Am        Bm
  Hands on and we'll get stronger
G           Am       Bm
  Get by or you're a goner
G              Am        Bm
  Hands on and we'll get stronger


Guitar Solo: G- - Bb - F- - Em - Eb - D - Eb- - F- - Bb - Am - G- x2


Outro:
G          Bb F     Em  Eb D
  Oh The water has spat us out
Eb F        Bb   Am G  G
   Coast is clear     again
        Bb F
Hush up now
    Em    Eb  D    Eb
And don't get bored
     F Bb
Work a-way
      Am     G(hold)
We're on the mend