Chords with lyrics
Intro:
B minorBm Am7Am7 G+G
B minorBm Am7Am7 G+G
Verse:
G+G B minorBm
Benny's waiting for a new brain implant;
G+G B minorBm
His old one's working fine
C majorC Am7Am7
He don't care if it's worth it
C majorC Am7Am7
He just needs the new version
G+G B minorBm
Benny's gotta make that money
G+G B minorBm
So he can afford to update the life
C majorC Am7Am7
that he don't spend living;
C majorC Am7Am7 G+G
Too distracted searching for the new, the new, the new
G+G G+G
Verse:
G+G B minorBm
Ginger's got her nose stuck in a book
G+G B minorBm
Hypnotized by symbols on a page
C majorC Am7Am7
Imbued with meaning
C majorC Am7Am7
Certainly means more than the life that she ignores
G+G B minorBm
Replacing her thoughts with authored thoughts
G+G B minorBm
Living half a life through pulp and ink;
C majorC Am7Am7
It's imitation;
C majorC Am7Am7 G+G
She's been told it's education but it ain't life, ain't life, ain't life
G+G G+G
Chorus:
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
They're living a fiction in fear of raw life
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
The distractions they're mired in are lies
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
Facsimile dream but I've got a scheme to wake up
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7
Oh, I've got a scheme to kill the dream
D7D7
Verse:
G+G B minorBm
Jumbo Ron is pacing back and forth
G+G B minorBm
He's worried that he may have made the wrong
C majorC Am7Am7
impression last night
C majorC Am7Am7
On a date with a doggy from work
Verse:
G+G B minorBm
He's obsessing over one small turn of phrase
G+G B minorBm
He's not sure if it
C majorC Am7Am7
conforms to current standards
C majorC Am7Am7 G+G
Of political correctness as it changes day to day, to day, to day
G+G G+G
Chorus:
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
They're living a fiction in fear of raw life
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
The distractions they're mired in are lies
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7 G+G
Facsimile dream but I've got a scheme to wake up
G+G Am7Am7 D7D7
Oh, I've got a scheme to kill the dream
D7D7 D7D7