Tonalité : G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Look, ma
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D
They're gonna fry Tim McVeigh
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She said, "That nice guy who was on the cov
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er of all of those magazines?
Why would they want to do
a thing like that?"
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I said, "Well, he killed all those
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G
people in Oklahoma City"
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She said, "Nonsense,
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people don't kill people
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Car bombs kill people"
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And I said, "Well, yeah, ma
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But they gotta do something
Em
with him"
She said, "Why don't they just
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get Mike Tyson
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To bite off both his ears?"
Verse 2
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And I say true revolutionaries
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Am
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C
Never bomb buildings
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True revolutionaries
D
Em
Never bomb buildings
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D
Em
It attracts too much attention
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D
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They never bomb buildings
Verse 3
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A little girl down my block was born
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with silicone in her breasts
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Turned out her grandmother and her mother
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had both had the implants done
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Well, evolution took care
D
of it this time around
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And I wondered what it is about
So many women with big breasts
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make them look so sad
And I thought, well,
Em
maybe it has somethin' to do with the weight
D
The burden they're asked to
carry in the world
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To feed it, to be the object of
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its desires
And I wondered what burdens the rest of us
Em
D
G
are carrying all the time
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And I couldn't help thinking
Verse 4
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D
True revolutionaries
Em
C
G
Never bomb buildings
D
Em
C
G
It attracts too much at tention
D
G
They never bomb buildings
Verse 5
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And I decided to go out for a walk
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And do nothing except
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look everybody I see in the eyes
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And not be the first to avert my eyes
No matter what
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I was planning to be gone
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for ten minutes
But things started happening
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And I didn't return for two years
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By which time I was the heavyweight
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champion of the world
Em
And the expectant father of sixteen children
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By thirteen different wo
Interlude 1
men
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C
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D
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C
Verse 6
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I was in a fishing village in coastal Spain
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It was our lady of abortion Sunday afternoon
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All the pregnant women
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in their first trimester
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Filed before the priest to
receive the blessing of
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"Try again sometime, try again"
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The old barber had dyed his hair
green for the occasion
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And pierced his nipples
D
And was riding his skateboard to the statue
of Conan O'Brien
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Where he was doing
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backflips for the kids
Em
Who threw coins given
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G
to them by their parents
Verse 7
C
A visiting lecturer
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Achingly handsome had just
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finished giving a
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"How to build bombs in your basement"
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seminar in the park
All the young girls put away
Em
their notebooks dreamily
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G
And put dandelions in their
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hair
Verse 8
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The chimpanzee who had managed
to type out Hamlet three years before
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Was sitting in the third floor office
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of the driver's license building
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Typing out zoning ordinances
Em
Typing out learner's permits
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Bored and lonely
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Verse 9
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Pee-wee Herman Herman was sitting
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in the central square in the grass
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Naked and masturbating
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While all the townspeople
moved to him slowly
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And kissed him softly
Em
D
G
And sung lullabies in the grass
Verse 10
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And in Berkeley
And in Greenwich Village
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And in Paris
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And in Scottsbluff, Nebraska
No one sits around funky little
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coffee shops anymore
Talking revolution
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G
Now they get a Starbucks to go
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They go back to their basketball
games
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Where they see who can jump higher
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Who can jam
Who can take it to the rack
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And they all wear baseball caps
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Except they don't say Yankees or
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Dodgers or Cardinals anymore
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They say Nike, Reebok, Adidas
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Because the pro players don't play
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for teams anymore
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They play for shoe companies
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And the kids aren't fooled
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Nah, they're just biding their time
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Waiting for the millennium to come
When all the computers will crash
Because the best scientists in the world
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Forgot to make them read zero
Verse 11
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D
True revolutionaries
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C
Never bomb buildings
G
D
True revolutionaries
Em
C
Never bomb buildings
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D
Em
C
G
It attracts too much at tention
D
Em
C
G
They never bomb
D
buildings
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C
G
Verse 12
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Now I was sitting there with a
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headful of dark thoughts
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Like I sometimes get
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Suddenly everything cleared
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And I realized that the only
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purpose to revolution
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Is to be able to love who you want
How you want
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When you want
And where you want
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So I took off all my clothes
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Stole a boat
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Rowed out to the middle of a lake
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C
And I jumped in
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And I looked back at you an d said
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"Come on! Get wet!"
Verse 13
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D
True revolutionaries
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Am
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C
Never bomb building s
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D
True revolutionaries
Em
C
Never bomb buildings
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D
Em
C
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It attracts too much at tention
D
Em
C
G
They never bomb buildings
D
Em
C
They never bomb buildings
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D
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They never bomb buildings
C
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