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INTRO
(Television rambling)
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VERSE:
SIm LA SOL MIm
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
SIm LA SOL MIm
This supermarket life is getting long
SIm LA SOL MIm
What is the heart life of a colour TV
SIm LA SOL MIm DO
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Ooh Western woman
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Ooh Western girl
SIm
New hounds sniff the air
LA SOL MIm
When Jessica Hahn goes down
SIm LA SOL MIm
He latches onto that symbol of detachment
SIm LA SOL MIm
attracted by the peeling away of feeling
SIm LA SOL MIm DO
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Ooh Western woman
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Ooh Western girl
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Ooh Western woman
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Ooh Western girl
RE
And the children of Melrose
RE REsus2
Strut their stuff
SOL
Is absolute zero cold enough
RE REsus2 RE
And out in the valley warm and clean
SOL
The little ones sit by their TV screens
RE REsus2 RE
No thoughts to think
SOL
No tears to cry
SOL LA SIm
All sucked dry
LA SOL
Down to the very last breath
MIm LA
Bartender what is wrong with me?
MIm LA
Why am I so out of breath?
MIm LA
The captain said excuse me ma'am
MIm LA
This species has amused itself to death
(intro notes comes in full force)
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Amused itself to death
RE REsus2 RE SOL
Amused itself to death
RE REsus2 RE SOL
We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
RE
We bought and sold
REsus2 RE SOL
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
RE
we ohhed and aahed
REsus2 RE
we drove our racing cars
SOL
We ate our last few jars of cavier
RE
And somewhere out there in the stars
REsus2 RE
A keen-eyed look-out
SOL
Spied a flickering light
RE
Our last hurrah
SOL
Our last hurrah
MIm LA
And when they found our shadows
MIm LA
Grouped around the TV sets
MIm LA
They ran down every lead
MIm LA
They repeated every test
SIm SOL
They checked out all the data on their lists
SIm
And then the alien anthropologists
SOL MIm
Admitted they were still perplexed
RE
But on eliminating every other reason
REsus2 RE SOL
For our sad demise
RE REsus2 RE SOL
They logged the explanation left
SOL SIm
This species has amused itself to death
SIm LA SOL MIm
SIm LA SOL MIm
repeat and fade
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