Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
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Before you say a word I should tell you that I've he ard it all before
And you should pr obably save your breath
Your feelings of disgust, your thinly veiled mistrust
My friends have lectured me to dea th
The people on the news predicted he would los e
And this was never part of a nybody's thoughts
But something must have gave, o r someone must have caved
'Cause now he's up there and they're calling all the shots
And now most everyone's been taking turns at p ointing out the flaws
Accusing us of sabotage and fr acturing the cause
With fingers pointing everywhere an d flapping of the jaws
I just avert my eyes and take the abuse
In social situations I keep m ostly to myself
'Cause no one wants to hear about my f ailing mental health
And party conversation, I just k eep it on the shelf
'Cause I've discovered it's of very little use
And now I'm he re
Stopped at the red light
Watching the h eadlights
And what if it's all a trick that I fell for
It's happened before more times than I would care to own up to
And I don't know about you
But I've been getting so tired
Of holding out my thumb for salvation
The indication is that no one really feels like slowi ng down
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I listen to the Clash, I separate my trash
I'm pretty vocal when I fe el like things are getting out of hand
But nothing that I do is ever getting through
And I just wonder if no body understands at all
The revolution won't be televised 'cause television's free
And no one's really su re just what the price is going to be
We're slowly going broke, our scene's become a joke
For coked-up funnymen and e veryone but me
I like to think that what we had was more than just a fad
That it was rooted in some bigger kind of truth
But friends just shake their heads, make jokes about the Dead
And tell me that they used to think the same things in their youth
I'm stopped at the r ed light
Watching for he adlights
And what if it's all a trick that I fell for
It's happened before more times than I would care to own up to
And I don't know about you
But I've been getting so tired
Of holding out my thumb for s alvation
The indication is that no one really feels like slowi ng down
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