Note: occasionally on the Cadd9 chords an extra note is added to make it go from x32030
x32031 and then back again. also during the "and special occasions..." part of the verse
is a discordant chord shift but just alter the Dsus2 chord briefly from x00230 to x00330
then back again.
Intro
e|-------------------------------------------------------------5--|
B|-3--3---3-----3--3--3--3---3----3--3--3--3---3----3--3---4---4--|
G|-2----0----0--2-----2----0---0--2-----2----0---0--2------5---5--|
D|-0------------0-----0-----------0-----0-----------0------5---5--|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse 1
you can have washington i'll take new jersey
you can have london but i want new york city
i should get providence i've got a job now
los angeles - obvious - that's where you belong now
(continue chords as above)
you can have africa asia australia
as long as you keep your hands off cafe pamplona
we can split germany right down the middle
you'd hate it there anyway
take berlin and well call it even
you can take all of the carry-on baggage
i'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet language
and special occasions we'll split between parents
who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends
you call it over and i call you psycho, significant other?
just say we were lovers and we'll call it even
we'll call it even
Chorus/Refrain
i am the ground zero ex-friend you ordered
disgused as a hero to get past your borders
i know when i'm wanted i'll leave when you ask me to
mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken to
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked
Verse 2
you get route 2 between concord and lexington
i want mass ave from the sqaure to my apartment
and if we should meet through some misunderstanding
ill be very sweet very patient and forgiving
(now get off my side of the state)
and if we should see one another in passing
despite these techniques there is sometimes no avoiding
(there must be some kind of mistake)
we'll raise high our white flags and bow heads and shake hands
declaring the land we're on unamerican we'll call it even
we'll call it even
Chorus/Refrain
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked
i am an accident waiting to happen
i'm laughing like mad as you strangle the captain
my place may be taken, but make no mistake
from a little black black box i can say without shame
that you've lost, that you've lost, do you know what you've lost?
Outro
so take whatever you'd like
i'll strike like the States on fire
you won't sleep very tight
no hiding no safe covers
make your bed and now lie
just like you always do
you can fake it for the papers
but i'm on to you, i'm on to you
so take whatever you'd like
i'll strike like the States on fire
you won't sleep very tight
no hiding no safe covers
make your bed and now lie
just like you always do
you can fake it for the papers
but i'm on to you, i'm on to you, i'm on to you, i'm on to you!
Dsus2 Cmin repeated to end