Key: G5

Tuning: Standard EADGBe


Verse 1:
Bm- - D5 - G5
       Stop the wrecking ball
Bm- - D5 - G5
       Are you getting off?
Bm- - D5 - G5               C5
       This course in melodrama
                   Bm- - D5 - G5
Wake me when it's over
                         Bm- - D5 - G5
Thin skin we're whipped again
                 Bm- - D5 - G5
They're merciless
            C5
Flag wavers prey and prosper
               Bm- - D5 - G5
Escape with me father
       A5 B5     G5 A5 B5
Come on     come on


Chorus 1:
C5
  You and I have been around
Beaten up run out of town
         G5
Don't say "God's planned 
    A5            B5
the world we live in
G5                   A5        B5
  Take what you can get" it's written
C5
  Earth shakes and waters rise

A plague hits my 
lover dies And you say
G5              A5       B5
  "Best of all possible worlds
G5                 A5    B5
  Get by while it all unfurls"


Verse 2:
Bm- - D5 - G5
       Syphilis aren't 
you sick of this
Bm- - D5 - G5
       Give me a hand
Bm- - D5 - G5
        To the taking 
C5
back of our fate
              Bm- - D5 - G5
Believe in another
There's a little 
              Bm- - D5 - G5
patch of land there
             Bm- - D5 - G5
Just up ahead
                C5
Slow and steady we can prosper
                  Bm- - D5 - G5
Trot on with me father
       A5 B5     G5 A5 B5
Come on     come on


(Repeat Chorus 1)


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


Bridge:
G5          F5
  This land needs tiling
A5            F#5
  Come on and help out
G5       F5
  The pirate swine
A5                F#5
  We'll bluff and cop out
G5   F5
  oh yeah!!!
A5                 (hold)
  Your worlds just burn out


Chorus 2:
C5
  You and I have been around
Beaten up run out of town
         G5
Don't say "God's planned 
    A5            B5
the world we live in
G5                   A5        B5
  Take what you can get" it's written
C5
  Tragic comic repartee
This schlep has 
had it's day I say
G5           A5       B5
  Get by or you're a goner
G5              A5        B5
  Hands on and we'll get stronger
G5           A5       B5
  Get by or you're a goner
G5              A5        B5
  Hands on and we'll get stronger


Guitar Solo: G- - Bb5 - F- - E5 - Eb5 - D5 - Eb- - F- - Bb5 - A5 - G- x2


Outro:
G5          Bb5 F5     E5  Eb5 D5
  Oh The water has spat us out
Eb5 F5        Bb5   A5 G5  G5
   Coast is clear     again
        Bb5 F5
Hush up now
    E5    Eb5  D5    Eb5
And don't get bored
     F5 Bb5
Work a-way
      A5     G(hold)
We're on the mend