Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Verse 1:
F minorFm
The 'burbs are growing like a fingernail
F minorFm
Slower than the dullest pain
DmDm
I want the hunger and cold of the nights of old
F minorFm
When there was blood up to the Himalayas
F minorFm
I'm saying farewell to the welfare state
F minorFm
The only comfort is a caliphate
DmDm
I'm guessing war sure beats any old North Shore beach
F minorFm
Or any Western Suburbs single player
F minorFm
I'm looking for the type of test
F minorFm
A augmentedA cataclysm make me beat my chest
DmDm
Man, any kind of 'ism' beats a singing competition
F minorFm
On a TV fat with gnash and wail
F minorFm
They got me singing in a different scale
DmDm DmDm
Don't wanna push no pram or join a bikie gang
F minorFm
Or flip a burger for the infidel
A minorAm
Yeah, no one ever lives to tell
E minorEm
What's at the bottom of an oil well
Chorus:
E minorEm C# minorC#m D#mD#m C minorCm
Boredom, boredom
C majorC
I'm gonna take a pic down there
C majorC
Put my index finger in the air
E minorEm C# minorC#m D#mD#m C minorCm
Boredom, boredom
C majorC
Gonna tag it with my username
C majorC
And you can flag it for its guts and brains
Verse 2:
F minorFm
Got me a lawyer in the ACT
F minorFm
Got me the fuck out of the PNG
DmDm
I'm telling y'all failed states, they ain't exactly great
F minorFm
But neither's prison in the Bismarck Sea
F minorFm
Terra's firmer in the southern lands
F minorFm
And shock and awe is all for stretch Humvees
DmDm
The casual exhibition of a recent acquisition's
F minorFm
All the intervention they got planned
F minorFm
I miss the hustle of the Baghdad days
F minorFm
It weren't a shit hole in the late '80s
DmDm
That thing with 'W', don't let it trouble you
F minorFm
It's all a distant hen's night anyway
F minorFm
I hear 'em screaming for a Chippendale
DmDm
That looks like Eminem, it must be 2:00am
A minorAm
And it's like nothing here is even real
E minorEm
You're just so lucky that you get to feel
Chorus:
E minorEm C# minorC#m D#mD#m C minorCm
Boredom, boredom
C majorC
I didn't come here for the thrills and spills
C majorC
I just like the way I don't get killed
E minorEm C# minorC#m D#mD#m C minorCm
Boredom, boredom
C majorC
You get the house, land, bang, the whole biz
C majorC
If you can just remember where it is
E minorEm C# minorC#m D#mD#m C minorCm
Boredom, boredom
C majorC
Don't fucking tell me that you ain't got room
C majorC
You ever really seen a baby boom?
E minorEm C# minorC#m D#mD#m C minorCm
Boredom, boredom
C majorC
Man, I was born in the cradle of civilisation
C majorC
And I plan on dying in its tomb