Alert The Audience chords by Lawrence Arms

• Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
• Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

C Am G Am F (x2)

Verse:

C
Passive, Aggressive,
Am
Confessing, Repressive
G
Structurally uncertain,
F                          C Am G Am F   C Am G Am F
transparent, transgressive
C

I've stumbled into something
       Am
and I don't know what it is.
    G
All I-beams, bolts and plaster,
F                         C Am G Am F   C Am G Am F
corners painted in piss.
C
Mistakes are the brakes
          Am
that I'm cutting on me.
G
Fast down the hill,
   F             C Am G Am F   C Am G Am F
impossibly free.
C
Faster and faster,
     Am
I'm burning the gears.
    G
My tears are streaming
      F            C Am G Am F   C Am F
back into my ears.

Solo:

C G Am C F (x2)

{Verse]

C             Am
My enemies I knew too well,
G               F                 C Am G Am F   C Am G Am F
they bickered amongst themselves.
C
I have a rule,
   Am
I love to break.
G
It ends in tears,
    F               C Am G Am F   C Am G Am F
cursing and shakes.

Interlude:

C Am G Am F (x3)

Outro:

       C
I'm a clown and i'm choking on
G
blood, teeth and tongue
Am
Fuck the spectators,
          F
fuck the "he was so young"
      C
Fuck forced sympathy through
G
lifeless glass eyes,
   Am               F
Povichian voyeurs drinking my cries.
 C          G          F
Fuck faced trilobites waiting to die.
   C              G   F
I can't stand the hu-mor
                       C Am G Am F   C Am G Am F    C
and i can't stand the lies.