Intro G Verse 1 C G Here in my room in splendid isola.....tion C G Alone in the gloom in splendid isola.....tion C D G C Sometimes I need to be left in my own company G F C G So here am I in splendid isola....................tion Verse 2 C G Falling away in splendid isola.....tion C G I'm hoping I'll stay in splendid isola.....tion C D G C If they were right I'd agree but it's them they know not me G F C G So here am I in splendid isola....................tion Verse 3 F G I'm floating in a sea of my subconscious thoughts F G The skeletons are crawling through my closet walls F G No-one ever sees me I don't make a sound C F G And I don't know what I'm gonna do now F G That motherless itch has got the best of me F G Transcending the things that I will never be F G But all along hallucinating life somehow C F G I still don't know what I'm gonna do now Instrumental G C G C G F G F G F G C G F G F G F G C G Verse 4 F G Pressure starts to push me through my loving daze, F G For a moment then I thought I'd lost my wicked ways F G It's not that I'm a leper when my mind allows, C F G And I don't know what I'm gonna do now F G But Lennon is a memory in a student brain, F G Gripping thought pavilions guilt in freedoms chains F G Virginical construction makes the masses wow C G But I don't know what I'm gonna do now F G Yeah but I see the moon the stars and hemisphere F G I've seen the future but it don't look clear F G The past is re-appearing on my fevered brow C G And I don't know what I'm gonna do now C G No I don't know what I'm gonna do now C G F G No I still don't know what I'm gonna do now no no In splendid isolation ah this is splendid isolation