INTRO: D5 / A5 / D5 / A5 / D5 / A5 / C5 / F5 / G...
      
       C5              G5
Hotter than a perfect lover
       C5                G5
Colder than a surrogate mother
            A5             C5
That's what happens when a matriarch
F5               G5
Doesn't get her way

       C5               G5
She'll build a bomb in silence
      C5                G5
And explode it without violence
  A5             C5
A matriarch will stop at nothing
F5                 G5
Till her point is made.
      
      F5     G5           C5       B(bass) A5
      Don't snuggle too closely to her bosom
      F5         G5              C5   B(bass) A5
      You'll be cluttering her velvet cushion
      F5          G5      C5    B(bass) A5
      Shanghaied by her soft illusion -
                    F5
            And bouncing off the walls
                                G5
                  Just to keep her sane...
 
(Chords repeated)

The goal posts will be shifted
Till her spirits are uplifted
That's what happens when a matriarch
Doesn't get her way

She'll take away your rudder
With her words all made of rubber
A matriarch will stop @ nothing
Till her point is made.

F5        G5       C5    B(bass) A5
Then one day she tells you straight:
              F5                        C5
      "If you hate me it's because I'm great..."
                        F5
            And the next day:
                  G5              C5     B(bass) A5
            "If you love me it's because I'm great..."

           F5               G5
      One heart is never enough...for a soul-mate...

SOLO over VERSE chorus chords:

F5             G5            
Sit down Vera Lynn
C5      B(bass) A5
Freely on your pumpkin.
        F5
      Deftly pass the stone -
      C5  B(bass) A5      
      To your next of kin
F5
Bounced off the walls
     C5       B(bass) A5
La-h-menting on your violin -
      F5
      The state you're in:
      F5                            G5            
      Dogged and driven, since you left your mother's home

She'll be your greatest folly
And you her voodoo dolly
That's what happens when a matriarch 
Doesn't get her way.

She'll argue
And she'll reason
But never be fairly beaten
A matriarch will stop @ nothing
Till her point is made.

C5    G5
H-a-r-k
       C5    G5
In the dark
    A5     C5      F5                       G5
A matriarch is getting her own way

FADE...