• Song:

    I Wanna Be Me

  • Artist:

    Sex Pistols

  • Album:

    Ultimate Collection

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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 12:27:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Glen Norman Pavan 
Subject: sex_pistols: i_wanna_be_me.crd (fwd)


artist:  Sex Pistols
title:  I Wanna Be Me
album:  The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
tuning:  standard


intro:  E
        E D B  x2

verse
E
Turn the page and its the scoop of the century
       D                   B
Don't wanna be L Seven I had enough of this
E
This is brainwash and this is a clue
D                B
To the stars who fooled you
A
Tell me why you cant explain
        B                 D B   E
You're only looking for vinyl  yeah
            D              B           E
Didn't they fool you they wanna be you

intro

second verse
Gimme World War 3 we can live again
You didn't fool me but I fooled you
You wanna be me yeah you wanna be me
You wanna be someone yeah ruin someone
Yeah, didn't I fool you I ruined you yeah
didn't I fool you I sussed you out

intro

third verse
I got you in the camera and I got you in my camera
a second of your life ruined for life
You wanna ruin me in your magazine
you wanna cover us in margarine
And now is the time to realize to have real eyes

intro

fourth verse
Down down down down and I'll take you down on the underground
Down in the dark and down in the crypt
Down in the dark where the typewriter fit
Down with your pen and pad ready to kill to make me ill
Down wanna be someone wanna be someone
Make it as someone you wanna be me ruin me
a typewriuter god a black and white king
PVC blackboard books Black and white
I wanna be me


comments, corrections to senomar@bach.udel.edu
                       -I'm here, I'm queer, I play 5-string bass
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