Intro G5 Verse G5 G5 Monsieur Dupont he was an ordinary fellow C5 E5 D5 Equally bad and good C5 G5 Got sick of women so he got into porno C5 D5 And gave to charities 'cause he knew he should G5 G5 Never gave up on striving for the rainbow C5 E5 D5 Mindless happiness with a healthy lawn C5 G5 Trembling with joy at the thought of a new TV C5 D5 Under a regime of robots in authority Chorus G5 D5 C5 E5 D5 Plastic flowers laying on his grave C5 E5 D5 D5 D5 D5 From the company he gave thirty-two years to G5 D5 C5 E5 D5 Plastic flowers melting in the sun C5 E5 D5 D5 D5 D5 A memento to the glorious things he's done Verse He had a car and a home on the Northside Respectable neighbourhood And all his struggling to obtain riches Laying dead it doesn't do him much good What does it profit a man to gain the whole world And yet to lose his soul What does it profit a man to love little And not be loved at all Chorus Middle G5 G5 In my life I pray C5 E5 D5 I don't just follow blindly x2 C5 E5 All the plans preset for me C5 D5 And without question become my enemy Verse The factory people carry on without him Another face occupies his place He had friends but he never really knew them Such a shame that he went so young Above the terraces and multi-storey car parks He will be sitting trial Too late to gasp out for God at his last breath Hoping that he's got a loophole or two left Chorus Outro G5 D5 C5 E5 D5 C5 E5 D5 D5 D5 Plastic flowers fade away G5 D5 C5 E5 D5 C5 E5 D5 D5 D5 Plastic flowers fade away G5 D5 C5 E5 D5 C5 E5 D5 D5 D5 Plastic flowers fade away G5 D5 C5 E5 D5 C5 E5 D5 D5 D5 Plastic flowers fade away G5 E | ---3----3------3------3------3-----2--- B | ---3----3------3------3------3-----3--- G | ---0----0------0------0------2-----2--- D | ---0----0------2------2------0-----0--- A | ---2----2------3------2------x-----x--- E | ---3----x------x------0------x-----x--- G5 G5 C5 E5 D5 D5
