Rest Employed chords by The Stupendium
Guitar chords with lyrics
Verse:
Em C#m Em D
One-fifty-one thousand six hundred people die
Em
Every day on Earth
C#m Em D
And if that's not a reason to cry
Em
Well, it's an awful lot of paperwork
C#m A
It's your first day at work, how've you settled in?
D Em
Shaken off the rigor mortis? Sorted out your pencil tin?
C#m C#dim
Welcome to our newest resident skeleton
D Em
What better heaven than a desk to spend forever in?
Em
Now your body may be shrivelled up and worthless
D Em
At least we know your funeral will be a civil service
C#dim Em
Persons so superfluous are living on the surface
D Em
It's nothing so perturbing, we're just trimming off the surplus
C#m C#dim
It isn't murder if you cause a little accident
D Em
We prefer to word it as some "mortal middle-management"
C#dim
There's the door, we've got millions of applicants
D Em Em
Dying for some corporate incorporeal entanglement
Chorus:
C#dim
Everything living has to die
Em D
But to die, you need not apply
B Em
We'll find you when your time's through
C#dim D
Take a number, wait in line
Em
Live your life and we'll be right behind you
C#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
D
So I guess you'd better get some practice
Em C#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
D
So I guess you'd better
Em
So I guess you'd better
Verse:
A D
You've got targets to prove yourself
Em
Here's some targets, peruse yourself
C#m A D
Shoo a few humans off the mortal shelf to the floor
Em
We'll be polishing the coffins as you off a couple more
C#dim
We need a botanist, two paleontologists
D Em
A newspaper columnist whose views may be communist
C#m A D
A shoe salesman, possible balloon hobbyist
Em
Just another couple popped clogs for your shopping list
C#m A D
No slacking on the grave packing, ever more to kill
D Em
Death row deplorables, incurables and "sort of ill"
C#dim
Every person, animal and plant has a form to fill
D Em
We've got departments solely tasked with killing chlorophyll
C#dim Em
So, of course, you will toe the lifeline and behave
D Em
Or you'll be filing dandelions before you've had your tea break
C#dim Em
Humanity's in balance, if that balance isn't repaid
D Em Em
Interns can be inhumed and replaced
Chorus:
C#dim
Everything living has to die
Em D
But to die, you need not apply
B Em
We'll find you when your time's through
C#dim D
Take a number, wait in line
Em
Live your life and we'll be right behind you
C#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
D
So I guess you'd better get some practice
Em C#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
D
So I guess you'd better
Em
So I guess you'd better
Verse:
A
Ashes to ashes, nine to five
D Em
The light in the tunnel has been privatised
C#dim
Robes were so behind the times
D B Em
These obituaries don't give any time for scythes
C#dim
Population moderation's not the worst fate
D Em
Your occupation's the salvation of the hearse trade
C#dim
For generations, we've been racing for the first place
D Em
But we've spent the centuries in second to the birth rate
Chorus:
C#dim
Everything living has to die
Em D
But to die, you need not apply
B Em
We'll find you when your time's through
C#dim D
Take a number, wait in line
Em
Live your life and we'll be right behind you
C#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
D
So I guess you'd better get some practice
Em C#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
D
So I guess you'd better
Em
So I guess you'd better
Refrain:
A
Dearly indentured
D
We are gathered here today to pay tribute
Em
To the life of the departed
D
And to welcome him to the office
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