D Bm Animals on TV singing E about some pain that they once felt D Bm E There's no one I disapprove of more, or root for more than myself D Bm E I wanted to pretend that it was better, better, better on the phone D Bm E (let ring) I didn't wanna tell you I was jealous, jealous, jealous and alone Bm A F#m E So we talk about ourselves in hell Bm A F#m E To forget the love we never felt Bm E A D C# All the old jokes that work so well Bm E A Universal truth was a moment's lie Don't try to stop us Don't try to stop us Don't try to stop us Get out of the way D Bm E Got to get to climb your tree in the light of the living ghost I see D Bm E She sees her father in the old man's eyes while secretly he stares at her thighs D Bm E Animals on TV singing about some they may felt at some point D Bm E (let ring) I didn't want to tell you I was jealous, jealous, jealous, what's the point? Bm A F#m E As I watched the velvet drapes appear Bm A F#m E And the door was closed for fourty years Bm E A D C# As we hide what we don't wanna hear Bm E A D C# As we hide what's really in our ears Bm A F#m E He is coming from a part of hell Bm A F#m E Where lightning blue eyes don't go down well Bm A F#m E He can't tell that we're oblivious Bm A F#m E It's addiction of routine as well Bm E A D C# Making fools out of the best of us Bm E A D C# Making robots of the rest of us Bm E A D C# Innocence itself in America today Bm E A D There's a crime just like Cornel West might say Don't try to stop us Don't try to stop us Don't try to stop me Get out of the way