Chords with lyrics
Tuning: G C E A (G C E A) intro: C Dm F Bb C Dm F Bb C F Dm Bb White picket fences C Barbed wire and trenches F Dm Trick or treat, merry Christmas Bb C Howdy neighbor, thank you Jesus F A Dm G Oh, what is he building in that painted lady? Bb C A participation trophy wife or blonde, blue-eyed baby? F Dm Wide-eyed and wired Bb C The snap-crackle-pop of the Geiger F Dm Bb C Camouflage billboards for lead-lined Brooks Brothers, you elbow the jukebox and sing “Duck and Cover" F A A7 Dm Bb And breed out our incisors, feed on white wine and Pfizer Bb C It don’t look like survival, b-but buy now or die C F Dm Bb Suburbia C F Dm Bb You’re not alone C F Dm Bb The lights are on C F But no one’s home Bbm F C So, welcome home F Dm Myers-Briggs, OKULTRA Bb C Takes a village to fake a whole culture F Dm Your ear to the playground, your eye on the ball Bb C Your head in the gutter, your brains on the wall F A Home is where the heart is Dm G You ain’t homeless, but you’re heartless Bb It’s the safest on the market C But you still gotta watch where you park it F Dm So give me your half-life crisis Bb C I can tell that you know where paradise is F Dm Where parasites don’t care what your blood type is Bb C Only pheromones and serotonin decide F A Dm G If it's true that a snowflake only matters in a blizzard Bb Everyone knows that nobody’s knows that C Everybody’s all up in my, everybody’s all up in my, everybody’s all up in my business F Dm Bb Suburbia C F Dm Bb Where you belong C F Dm Bb The lights are on C F But no one’s home Bbm F So, welcome home Bb Bbm F Ch-ch-chameleon peacocks are talk of the town F Dm A Well, word gets around on hit number station Dm D Becomes radiation Gm Dm Eb The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream Bb A7 Of a night at the drive-in with an AR-15
instrumental: Gm Eb D Gm Eb Gm Gm I dropped my eyeballs in the bonfire, we fucked on a bed of nails Gm Gm Eb I caught Kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail Gm Gm Smell those screaming teenage sweetbreads on the 4th of July grill Gm Gm Gm Smile and wave, boys, kiss the cook, live laugh and love, please pass the pills Gm Eb It’s only culture Eb Eb It’s only culture Eb Eb D Gm It’s only culture N.C. Sulfur, smoke, and soot Gm Eb Eb You learned to torture house cats like vultures Eb D7 You cocked and sucked your lack of empathy, D7 D7 Pulled the trigger with your foot to prove you’ve got- Gm Blood Gm Cm Didn’t they want your blood? D7 Gm So why apologize for being blue and cold? Gm Blood Gm Cm Didn’t they want your blood? D Gm So don’t apologize when you turn blue and cold instrumental: Gm Eb D Gm Eb It’s only culture Eb Eb It’s only culture Eb It’s only Gm Ah, ah, ah, ah N.C. Culture’s not your friend Gm Eb Hey, fuck your culture Eb Eb I ain’t got no culture Eb D7 It’s only culture D7 And it's more afraid of you than you are of it, go on, drink that- Gm Blood Gm Cm Didn’t they want your blood? D7 Gm So why apologize when you turn blue and cold? Gm Blood Gm Cm Didn’t they want your blood? D Gm So don’t apologize for being blue and cold Gm Were you Nabokov to a Salinger? Gm Jung to Freud or Das to a Leary? Gm Were you mother, daughter, subject, and author? Gm You don’t make the rules Gm You just write them down and do it by the book you throw around Gm G Do you know the difference between blazing trails and slash-and-burn? C D Going against the grain and catching splinters? G You pull out your Rorschach like a paint-by-numbers treasure map C Cm D The ink upon your jigsaw piece trace you back to your fingerprints C D G E Well Lot he had his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you'll too, and die C D G G B The Lord looked down, said, “hey, you’re only mortal” C D B7 Em Giveth and taketh away ‘til things come out a certain way C D G Leave you wondering when they might go back to normal B C Cm G Leave you wondering why they can’t have just been normal outro: G Em Eb G
