Originally by: J. Dekter A5 Ab5 Ab5 I'm bored out of my mind / Too sick to even care C#5 C#5 C5 B5 I'll take a little walk / Nobody's going----to----know B5 C#5 D5 I'm in senior year / It gives you a little free time E5 I'll just use it all at once! A5 Ab5 Ab5 Took the fence and the lane / The bus then the train C#5 C#5 C5 B5 Bought an Independent to make me look like I------got---brains B5 C#5 D5 I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask E5 I'm going to a seminar! D5 D5 I'm a genius / I'm a prodigy A5 A demon at Maths and Science A5 Ab5 G5 F#5 I'm up---for---a---prize C5 B5 If you gotta grow up sometime A5 ( A5 Ab5 G5 F#5 ) F#5 You've to do it on your own C5 B5 I don't think I could stand to be stuck A5 ( E5 F#5 G5 Ab5 A5 ) That's the way that things were going A5 Ab5 Ab5 The bible's my tool / There's no mention of school! C#5 C#5 C5 B5 My Damascan Road's my transistor rad--io B5 C#5 D5 I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight E5 I put on my headphones D5 D5 And I tune out / I am devout A5 The girls are singing about my life F#5 But they're not here, they've got the wild life C5 B5 If you want to find out, find out A5 ( A5 Ab5 G5 F#5 ) F#5 You got to look them in the eye C5 B5 That's why my only choice A5 Is find the face behind the voice... ....A5 D5 She asked the man if the service was open G5 D5 "Not today, just the choir from the radio" A5 D5 "Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way" G5 D5 "Will you bugger off, I've got work to do!" B5 D5 A5 The city was losing its appeal B5 D5 A5 God was asleep / He was back in her village, in the fields C5 F5 Oh, if I could make sense of it all! C5 F5 I wish that I could sing / I'd stay in a melody (I would float along in my everlasting song) C5 E5 What would I do to believe??