-Standard Tuning-

-Capo on the 2nd fret-



(PM) = Palm mute the chord
(Ring) = Let the chord ring

[Intro]
         D5 (PM)     A5 (PM)      G5 (Ring)            G5
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

[Verse 1]
D5                               G5
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds,
            D5                         G5
snakes, an aeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
D5                                               G5
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
                                                   D5
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
                                           G5
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
                                              D5
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
                                       G5
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
                            D5
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
                                  G5               D5
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team

by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
G5                                     D5
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
                                   G5
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
                                           D5
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
                                          G5
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
                                           D5
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
                                       G5
patriotic, slam , fight, bright light, feeling pretty
 G5 (PM)
psyched.

[Chorus]
         D5          A5            G5
It's the end of the world as we know it
         D5          A5            G5
It's the end of the world as we know it
         D5          A5            G5
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

[Verse 2]
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a votive, light a candle. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.

[Chorus] (x2)
*Palm mute on the 2nd chorus*
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

[Verse 3]
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.

[Chorus] (x2)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

[End on D5 ]