INTRO/VERSE: B5 D5
        B5
We were young heartbreakers estranged from our wealthy parents,
      D5
doing key bumps in a handicap bathroom.
B5                             D5 
Stoned complacent, ambivalent, mass communicating with shared subconscious.

CHORUS:
      D5      A5
Suffocation.
G5                          D5
Modern life in the western world.

D5 A5 G5

B5
Homosexual sons of unfulfilled fathers.
D5
Divorced from reality, free and young.
        B5
We were bashing our brains out on a kitchen cabinet.
         D5
It was a televised crucifixion.


     D5       A5
Suffocation.
G5                          D5
Modern life in the western world.

D5 A5 G5

BRIDGE: B5 D5
        
        B5
We were star-crossed, we were destitute.
    D5
Our words spoke mass destruction.
           B5
We watched the sun rise in the morning.
             D5
Daughters in arm , we all are orphans.
     
     D5        A5
Suffocation.
G5                          D5
Modern life in the western world.
               
D5 A5 G5

               D5      A5  G5
In the western world. 

D5 A5 G5

G5 D5