A                          Ab
I'm bored out of my mind / Too sick to even care
C#m                                C#m    Cm  Bm
I'll take a little walk / Nobody's going----to----know
Bm                      C#m                     Bm
I'm in senior year / It gives you a little free time
                 E
I'll just use it all at once!

         A                        Ab
Took the fence and the lane / The bus then the train
C#m                                        C#m  Cm  Bm
Bought an Independent to make me look like I------got---brains
Bm                      C#m                   Bm
I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask
               E
I'm going to a seminar!

     D              Dm
I'm a genius / I'm a prodigy
           A
A demon at Maths and Science
       A    Ab  G   Gb
I'm up---for---a---prize
       Cm                Bm
If you gotta grow up sometime
                        A     ( A  Ab  G    Gb )
You've to do it on your own
        Cm                        Bm
I don't think I could stand to be stuck
                                A        ( E  F#  G#  A )
That's the way that things were going

    A                            Ab
The bible's my tool / There's no mention of school!
C#m                       C#m    Cm  Bm
My Damascan Road's my transistor rad--io
Bm                         C#m                     Bm
I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight
            E
I put on my headphones

     D               Dm
And I tune out / I am devout
                           A
The girls are singing about my life
                                     Gb
But they're not here, they've got the wild life
       Cm                     Bm
If you want to find out, find out
                            A    ( A  Ab  G    Gb )
You got to look them in the eye
              Cm            Bm
That's why my only choice
                            A
Is find the face behind the voice...

....A                    Dm
She asked the man if the service was open
 G                   F#m
"Not today, just the choir from the radio"
A                        Dm
"Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way"
G                              F#m
"Will you bugger off, I've got work to do!"
B            D              A
The city was losing its appeal
B                       D                           A
God was asleep / He was back in her village, in the fields

C                   F
Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
  C                                      F
I wish that I could sing / I'd stay in a melody (I would float along in my everlasting song)
C                      E
What would I do to believe??