And The Damn Thing Bit Him chords by The Taxpayers

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G E minorEm G+G E minorEm

(1, 2, 3, 4!)

Verse:
G+G                         E minorEm
Throw the shutters down! Now, honey, wipe the city clean.
                   A minorAm
Wooden matches and soda cans with kerosene.
               C majorC
Got a bad idea and an awful position.

G+G             E minorEm
Back up, back up, no hesitation

Relay the news to the television station:
A minorAm                  C majorC
People are stupid and easy to lie to, still.

Eb MajorEb D MajorD

Verse:
G+G
Get a job! Go to work!
E minorEm
Wipe the sweat right off on your shirt.
A minorAm                        C majorC
Black and white tunnel-vision views for a new situation
G+G
So hats off to the person who can swallow the news
       E minorEm
that you can have your pride, but you can swallow it too.
     A minorAm
See, it's simple to swing yourself back and forth
C majorC          Eb MajorEb D MajorD
again and again and again...

Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Eb MajorEb D MajorD


Verse:
G+G
Consistency is what they call “suck city”
  E minorEm
The debt grows deep and your life turns shitty.
A minorAm
So fuck “making it work”
          C majorC
Circumspection is a notion reserved for jerks.
       G+G
My love was a race in the night by a blinding white moon,
  E minorEm
But she got ripped to parts by a massive typhoon.
      A minorAm
She says, “Success is joke in the nude
            C majorC            Eb MajorEb D MajorD
and disappointment is a paycheck spent on food.”


Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
G+G D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Eb MajorEb D MajorD