Eb2
     Baby gets born, rolls on his back, opens his eyes and hears a voice
         Ab7
A-saying oh...
F#              Ab                     F#              Ab
I'll tell you a secret about yourself, I'll tell you a secret about yourself

Eb2 
     Your father was bad, his father was bad, his father was bad need I go 
            Ab7
any further on...?
F#            Ab                       F#           Ab
You not gonna try to involve yourself, your pliable head is a walking hope

C#     Ab                  Eb             C#     Ab             Eb 
   Cos even now, there's a bone snapping, doughy embryo, bloody hands 
                                
clapping, the blood is clapping

   Bbm     Ab/C         Ab          Bbm     Ab/C          Ab        
If all the boys say you did it, and all the girls say you did it,
       Bbm     Ab/C         Ab          Bbm     Ab/C          Ab
and if all the boys say you did it, and all the girls say you did it

     Eb             C#            B               Eb                    C#
Then man, you're as guilty as the ones the came before, you sleepwalked over 
          B                  Bb
here, the drawbridge creaks ignored.

             Ab              Bb            Ab                      Bb
So leave the engine room and go, leave the engine room and build a road,
          Ab                                        
Leave the engine room , the steam will peter out and I'm
Eb           C#                     B              Eb
tired of the centuries passing, the vacuum and the womb
      C#                       B                Bb 
and I respect that things have changed and I'm alone
      Ab                Bb            Ab                      Bb
and I remember snatches here, and I involve myself with utter madness
          C#    Ab         Eb              C#        Ab
Leave me lounging, with my nerves butchered, and the ceiling torched, in the 
Eb     C#
birth canal
    Ab                  Eb
cos even now, there's a bomb dropping, it's ever dropping

Bbm         Ab/C       Ab          Bbm     Ab/C        Ab
Cos all the boys say I did it, and all the girls say I did it, and mother 
Bbm     Ab/C     Ab
all the boys say I did it,
Bbm     Ab/C     Ab
and all the girls say I did it

    Eb          C#            B              Cm
and man, I'm as guilty as the ones that came before.
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