Intro
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AmGEmD/F#
Three dozen cycles, give or take a sum
BmCAmD
The sum of that experience how to keep running
GEmCD
O I know justice, it's a birthright if you're born right
GEmCD
And I know how handsome is that trick of the light
DGCAm
So don't be mistaken in thinking I'll do right
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Given the chance to do wrong again and again again and a...
AmGEmD/F#
..gain summer romeos casing the park,
BmCAmD
By the uniform urinals of love's rural province.
GEmCD
O don't you know time, with its petty vial of sands
GEmCD
Inscrutable face and merciless hands
DGCAm
And don't you know love it's a whirlwind of feathers,
DGCAm
Tickles you to your nethers and leaves a terrain of despair
AmGEmD/F#
And I know when grief goes unchecked,
BmCAmD
There's a kind of relief in the wreckage for the wrecked
AmGEmD/F#
Weren't you alone last time I saw you?
BmCAmD
How do you keep running from the world and the war
GEmCD
O I know young fathers who once were like soldiers
GEmCD
AWOL in flung places or without standing orders,
DGCAm
Alarming approaches to time
DGCD7add4CD7add4
And it's killing no victimless crime again and again again and a...
Solo
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Monday night, goodies and the doctor
BmCAmD
Now that bath time's over, time for pyjamas
GEmCD
O I know self pity, it begins with nostalgia
GEmCD
And you'll die of melancholy if the dolor don't get ya
DGCAm
And I know a poem on a wall next to a picture
DGCAm
Of a dick and a fanny by a smear of regret
AmGEmD/F#
And it sings of its own long demise
BmCAmD
Something 'bout imperium and a new sun will rise,
GEmCD
O please don't go with those horrible guys
DGCAm
They only want one thing
GEmCD
O please don't go with those horrible guys
DGCD7add4C
They only want one thing again and again
D7add4CD7add4Am
Again and again again and again