Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
This song is in the key of C minorCm
Intro:
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Verse:
C5C5
The tenth of July, 1985
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Don't ask stupid questions
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I had nothing to do I was bored
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I had, I had not
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Fifteen weeks since the light has gone
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Fifteen weeks with the same shirt on
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A augmentedA thousand bodies stink and sweat
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and somebody's trying to roll a cigarette
Refrain:
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Clean mister
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Clean mister
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Clean missed her
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Cm FF
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Verse:
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Just relax and enjoy it, it's nothing really.
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Let's get you out of these damp clothes,
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just lift yourself up,
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get thous dreadful trousers off.
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You'll feel so much better afterwards.
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Just close your eyes and let it ooze all over you.
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Trickling down your back warm and sticky.
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Isn't that nice?
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No don't speak, just let yourself go,
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sink, sinking down deeper and deeper and deeper.
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At 3 o'clock that morning I awoke in an unfamiliar room
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in my hands like sodden paper
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a thick, glutinous pale green liquid
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sunlight through net curtains
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6, 000 miles an hour into brilliant white light.
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There's a brass band playing somewhere.
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Roll on your back and wait for the talbum.
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But what's that?
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Pull back the linen sheets to find the shirt
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they peeled off your back only two hours before
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the bed tips sideways.
Outro:
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No
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and to one day wake up in green fields with the sky blue above me.
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And to be clean again.
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But I know I'll never be clean again.