Standard (EADGBE)

 Key:

Chords used:

Verse 1

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Stop the wrecking ball

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Are you getting off?

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This course in melodrama

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Wake me when it's over

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Thin skin we're whipped again

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They're merciless

 Flag wavers prey and prosper

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Escape with me father

 Come on come on

Chorus 1

You and I have been around

Beaten up run out of town

 Don't say "God's planned

 the world we live in

Take what you can get" it's written

Earth shakes and waters rise

A plague hits my

lover dies And you say

"Best of all possible worlds

Get by while it all unfurls"

Verse 2

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Syphilis aren't

you sick of this

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Give me a hand

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To the taking

back of our fate

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Believe in another

There's a little

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patch of land there

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Just up ahead

 Slow and steady we can prosper

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Trot on with me father

 Come on come on

(Repeat Chorus 1)

Interlude

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Bridge

This land needs tiling

Come on and help out

The pirate swine

We'll bluff and cop out

oh yeah!!!

Your worlds just burn out

Chorus 2

You and I have been around

Beaten up run out of town

 Don't say "God's planned

 the world we live in

Take what you can get" it's written

Tragic comic repartee

This schlep has

had it's day I say

Get by or you're a goner

Hands on and we'll get stronger

Get by or you're a goner

Hands on and we'll get stronger

Guitar solo

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Outro

Oh The water has spat us out

Coast is clear again

 Hush up now

 And don't get bored

 Work a-way

 We're on the mend