E5 B5 E5 B5 E5 B5 E5 B5 E5 Listen to the sounds of ringing out around you B5 these are the cries of a dying breed E5 Politics of hate you'd never get around to B5 blood over brains that we never need E5 I saw you in the back, studied and relaxed B5 fixed in the post like a silent stone E5 Serenity and tact, it's the feeling that I lack B5 Life in the floors of a stable home G5 D5 I can trace you on paper like a sketch of a smell G5 D5 You're a breath to the runner in contest G5 F#5 B5 In close to the nerve, but you rest so far away G5 A5 and I have to give it up someday D5 A5 G5 Every time I close my eyes I see you in front of me F#5 E5 D5 Pretending in a love like this A5 E5 I have no choice but to put you in back of me G5 A5 Don't cover my footsteps B5 G5 Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me B5 G5 Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader D5 A5 E5 You're dead weight-all right, that's fine-but get your hands off me G5 You have to touch me with kid gloves B5 You have to touch me with kid gloves E5 B5 E5 B5 E5 B5 E5 B5 B5 Body to the wind, you talk me out of standstill E5 I never felt so alive at once B5 Finger to the quick, yes I can feel your hand still E5 pressed to the drain of the coming months E5 Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable f**k C5 Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore G5 F5 E5 Cheer me up, cheer me up, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself Yes I?m a vanity whore G5 D5 Because it's race and it's power at the center of life, G5 D5 we?re blind to the people who need us, G5 F#5 B5 but you're the kind of person who could understand that fault G5 A5 and I hope to measure you someday. D5 A5 G5 Every time I close my eyes I see you in front of me F#5 E5 D5 Pretending in a love like this A5 E5 I have no choice but to put you in back of me G5 A5 Don't cover my footsteps B5 G5 Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me B5 G5 Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader D5 A5 E5 You're dead weight-all right, that's fine-but get your hands off me G5 You have to touch me with kid gloves B5 You have to touch me with kid gloves E5 C5 G5 F5 E5 Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable f**k C5 Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore G5 F5 E5 Cheer me up, cheer me up, I'm invisibly stuck all in myself Yes I?m a vanity whore E5 Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a miserable f**k C5 Cheer me up, cheer me, up I'm a tireless bore B5 When you compromise yourself like that A5 It's a dedication B5 So even on friendship B5 G5 Dead weight all right, I know you're no good for me B5 G5 Dead weight all right, I know you're no righteous leader D5 A5 E5 Dead weight-all right, that's fine-but get your hands off me G5 You have to touch me with kid gloves B5 You have to touch me with kid gloves