Number One In New York chords by Titus Andronicus

Chords with lyrics

Verse
A augmentedA
Salvage yard scavenging, bent over backwards
  D MajorD
The caverns are vast and packed to the rafters with
A augmentedA
decaying corpses. Of course it's important??.
D MajorD
Pertinent details from primary sources
  A augmentedA
The voices are louder than ever before,
     D MajorD
Sticking forks into four-legged horses
      A augmentedA
Deplorable forces conspire to fire the lord
    D MajorD
and to hire a guy who will try to eat more of the
E MajorE
portions. A augmentedA guy who's more boorish,
         D MajorD
a guy who's more selfish, with elves as his helpers
         E MajorE
Hopeless hapless masses are dopes, they suppose
         D MajorD
It's the same old rigamarole that we know,
         E MajorE
It's as bold as a rodeo. Run with the bulls??.
          D MajorD
All the bullshit is so, so disposable.

Open wounds, broken bones.

Verse
A augmentedA
Choking from smoking these Marlboro hundreds
  D MajorD
Dysfunctional, fuck up in front of the public
A augmentedA
Dublin is so far away?? it's disgusting
  D MajorD
The way that these laymen conduct their discussions
     A augmentedA
But it's fun to disrupt if youre cussing enough
    D MajorD
Then I call my own bluff, push my luck
          A augmentedA
Hungry husbands are smuggling in drugs with their blood bubbling, boiling
 D MajorD
Recoil from the touch of the boys in the club
    E MajorE
Noise erupts from the speakers, they scream from the bleachers
D MajorD
Creatures in need of a teacher
       E MajorE
The reason is clear as a really bleached t-shirt
       D MajorD
The fever is reaching its peak.
               E MajorE
The deceivers are speaking of peace like it's reachable
               D MajorD
The evil are peeking through cracks in the steeple. Believe it, it's real.
     A augmentedA
'Tis the season, I'm breathing in poison, chest heaving,
   D MajorD
Can't even conceive of the next best thing
       A augmentedA
??Arrest these heathens! Forget the trial, lock 'em up, toss the key ?
D MajorD
Dot the T's, cross the I's, lots of apostrophes
E MajorE
Coughing up boxes of bucks to stay lost
    D MajorD
in the fog of this obnoxious process
         E MajorE
My conscience is quiet, ensconced in the tarpit
     D MajorD                        G+G
Cover the garden with carpet, forget and get onto the starship

Verse
                  D MajorD
We're off to another dimension?? the rent's too expensive here
             G+G
Spent my whole pension improving my penmanship
           D MajorD
When does it get any closer to ending?
              C majorC
And can I just mention the stench?
                    G+G
It's relentless when in the presence of elegant gentlemen
               C majorC
The villains have taken their vengeance
                   G+G
I regret to say they've collected the evidence
                   D MajorD
Repent and pretend every entrance is open to tenants with references
     C majorC
Declare myself president of the emptiness,
      D MajorD
Say I'm Rembrandt of dancing on the precipice
       C majorC
Eleven years in and trying to stay relevant
          D MajorD
But based on what's left of the remnants of my intestines
    DmDm
I would guess I've ingested the medicine.


Bridge
     E minorEm
Yes, I've been everywhere but everywhere that I've been
     B minorBm
I've been out of my element, even in my own skin
  E MajorE                        D MajorD
And I can't begin to think what I'd tell people back home
   A augmentedA          D MajorD
So I tell it to the microphone
 A augmentedA          D MajorD
I tell it to the microphone.
E MajorE            D MajorD
I can't leave the life alone??.
E MajorE            D MajorD
I can't leave the life alone??.
 A augmentedA          D MajorD
I tell it to the microphone.
 A augmentedA          D MajorD
I tell it to the microphone.
E MajorE            D MajorD
I can't leave the life alone??.
E MajorE            D MajorD
I can't leave the life alone??.

Outro
A augmentedA D MajorD C majorC