Standard (EADGBE)

There's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet

No matter where you live

 There'll always be a few things, maybe several things

 That you're gonna find really difficult to forgive

There's gonna come a day when you'll feel better

 You'll rise up free and easy on that day

 And float from branch to branch, lighter than the air

 Just when that day is coming, who can say, who can say

 Our mother has been absent

 Ever since we founded Rome

 But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

We're gonna commandeer the local airwaves

 To tell the neighbors what's been going on

 And they will shake their heads, and wag their bony fingers

 In all the wrong directions and by daybreak we'll be gone

 I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim

Scope out every angle of unfair advantage

I'm gonna bribe the officials, I'm gonna kill all the judges

It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage

 Our mother has been absent

 Ever since we founded Rome

 But there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

 Oh