This a song I wrote in 2009. The chord progressions are incredibly simple to
play, but the lyrical structure is complex, so I went through the whole song to
show you as best I could how the chords fall in with the words. Each line of the
verses has a bass-line that climbs up to the first chord of the line. So for the
first two lines of every verse the bass line is {g a b c} and on the last two
lines it is {C D E F}. Enjoy.
C G C
Well theres been something thats been bugging me for some time
C G C
It is a trouble from which I can never hide
F C G C
Its all them greedy men in tailored suits who dominate the world
F G C
And build the laboratory mazes for mankind
C G C
This house of cards will surely topple over someday
C G C
Just as Im sure all of the fat cats are aware
F C G C
So keep society sedated let them atrophy their minds
F G C
And in the end there will be no one left to care
C G
So go on home, walk swiftly through the bright-lit patches
F C G
The night closes faster than your eyes can catch it
C G F
The lies will be revealed in the end like a magic show
C G
Ill say I told you so
C G
Well I dont know, but Ive been told
F G C
Youre born to die and not to grow old
C G C
And maybe later I will start a revolution
C G C
You know Ill give them everything that I have got
F C G C
And then I know you all will thank me but Im not sure I have the time
F G C
Im too damned busy smoking booze and drinking pot
C G C
How can I satisfy my messianic complex?
C G C
How can I save you from the evils I cant name?
F C G C
Im not really anybody special but I wish so much I was
F G C
This world is rigged but Im still dying to play the game
C G
Well the race is on, push forward through the swarming masses
F C G
Forward to the furnace where well turn to ashes
C G F
And spread across the land to make the flowers and the grasses grow
C G
I think, no, no, no I hope its so
C G
Well I dont know, but Ive been told
F G C
Youre born to die and not to grow old
C G C
And in the morning she will rise and say she loves me
C G C
The fact that she aint real dont matter to me much
F C G C
I might be sorry come tomorrow but tonight Im just a man
F G C
And goddamn! She looks like shed be heavenly to touch
C G C
And in the evening as the light is slowly fading
C G C
And as the hawks make lazy circles in the sky
F C G C
And as the fireflies start dancing and the forests come alive
F G C
Ill say now what a pretty place for me to die
{bass line: F E D}
C F G
If time is just a fiction, and life is but a dream
C F G
Then pay no heed to scriptures as they flash across your screen
C F G
Were all as lost as pebbles that are cast into a stream
C F G C
And you cant trust your eyeballs because nothings what it seems
{see below}
And there was Grandma, swingin from the outhouse door
Without her nightie, Grandpa singin more, more, more
C G C
Match in a gas tank, boom boom!
"Grandma" riff
e|------------|------------|-------|
B|------------|------------|-------|
G|------------|------------|-------|
D|------------|------------|-------|
A|-/7-5-7-5-3-|-3h5p3p0----|-7-5-3-|
E|------------|----------3-|-------|
/ - slide
h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
