• Song:

    Billy

  • Artist:

    Bad Religion

  • Album:

    No Control

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                                BILLY - Bad Religion 
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Tabbed by: Mr. Clean - ggjjtt@hotmail.com

intro/solo
  
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main  riff: A     G     F     G (x2)

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     i can recall the warm youth of a summer day, yeah  
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      the sweetest lemonade,    the darkest game arcade,
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   and billy had a yearning in the corner of his mind.
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     it moved him secretly.   it moved him powerfully. 
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      but prescience was lacking and the present was all 
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    and his aptitudes were carelessly wasted.              
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       and challenging life with the abandon of a fool  
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       he squandered the hours of his day.  
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(Play Solo riff)

2nd Verse (Play Main Riff)
then darkness and disorder slapped him sharply in the face, yeah. 
it hit him like a friend, struck something deep within. 
he couldn't break the chain of slow decay that seemed to drag him 
just like a fatal tie toward the other side. 

2nd Chorus (Play Chorus Progression)
and billy was a lunatic, just barking at the moon, 
and his brain was totally wasted. 
he then exchanged his friends for a needle and a spoon 
and he threw his future away. 

Bridge:

       bolt the door and throw away the key.
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      your dim reflection is all that you can see.
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(Play Chorus Progression)
so where is the justice when no one is at fault 
and a human life is tragically wasted? 
how fragile is the flame that burns within us all 
to light each passing day? 

  Ending Chords
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