G C G C Bb F Eb D E
[Verse 1]
A G# G#7
I'm bored out of my mind / Too sick to even care
C#m7 C#m7 Cm7 Bm7
I'll take a little walk / Nobody's going----to----know
Bm7 C#m7 D
I'm in senior year / It gives you a little free time
E
I'll just use it all at once!
[Verse 2]
A G# G#7
Took the fence and the lane / The bus then the train
C#m7 C#m7 Cm7 Bm7
Bought an Independent to make me look like I------got---brains
Bm7 C#m7 D
I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask
E
I'm going to a seminar!
[Chorus]
D Dm
I'm a genius / I'm a prodigy
A
A demon at Maths and Science
A G# G F# F#7
I'm up---for---a---prize
C Bm
If you gotta grow up sometime
A G# G F# F#7
You've to do it on your own
C Bm
I don't think I could stand to be stuck
A (E F# G G#)
That's the way that things were going
[Verse 3]
A G# G#7
The bible's my tool / There's no mention of school!
C#m7 C#m7 Cm7 Bm7
My Damascan Road's my transistor rad--io
Bm7 C#m7 D
I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight
E
I put on my headphones
[Chorus]
D Dm
And I tune out / I am devout
A
The girls are singing about my life
F#
But they're not here, they've got the wild life
C Bm
If you want to find out, find out
A G# G F# F#7
You got to look them in the eye
C Bm
That's why my only choice
A
Is find the face behind the voice...
[Bridge]
A Dm/A
She asked the man if the service was open
G D/F#
"Not today, just the choir from the radio"
A Dm/A
"Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way"
G D/F#
"Will you bugger off, I've got work to do!"
B D A A/G# A/G A/F# A/E
The city was losing its appeal
B D A A/G# A/G A/F# A/E
God was asleep / He was back in her village, in the fields
[Outro]
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
What would I do to believe?
E D/E C#m/E D/E F#m/E
E D/E C#m/E D/E F#m/E
E D/E C#m/E D/E F#m/E
E
