Intro: E5 E5 A5 B5 B; (2x) 
 
E5 E5 A5 B5 B5 
What has life to offer me when I grow old? 
E5 E5 A5 B5 B5  
What's there to look forward to beyond the biting cold 
B5 A5 B5 A5  
('Cause) They say it's difficult, yes, stereotypical. 
E5 E5 A5 B5 B5 
What's there beyond sleep, eat, work in this cruel life  
E5 E5 A5 B5 B5  
Ain't there nothin' else 'round here but human strife  
B5 A5 B5 A5 
'Cause they say it's difficult, yes, stereotypical  
B5 A5 B5 A5  
Gotta be conventional, you can't be so radical. 
 
Chorus: 
E5 B5 
(So I'll/And) sing this song to all of (my/our) age  
A5 B5  
For these are the questions we've got to face  
E5 B5  
For in this cycle that we call life  
A5 B5 E5  
We are the ones who are next in line  
B5 A5 B5  
We are next in line.  
 
Reapeat verse 1 using G#m7 in place of Em9 
 

B5 A5 B5 A5  
Gotta be conventional, you can't be so radical.  
 
Repeat Chorus, except last line, using chord pattern 
E5 G#5 A5 B5 B5   
 
E5 G#5 A5 B5  
We are next in line  
E5 G#5 A5 B5  
Oh hoh, we are next in line. 
 
Bridge: 
E5 D5  
And we gotta work, we gotta feel (we gotta feel)  
A5 B5  
Let's open our eyes and do whatever it takes  
E5 D5  
We gotta work, we gotta feel (we gotta feel)  
A5 B5 A5 B5  
Let's open our eyes, oh woh. 
 
Repeat Chorus, except last word of 4th line,  

using chord pattern 
E5 G#5 A5 B5 B5  E5 pause  

A5 pause  
...line  
E5 pause  
Sing this song for me  
A5 pause  
Sing this song for me.  
 
(Chord pattern 
E5 G#5 A5 B5  
to fade)