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C C C
Wouldn’t ever gag you with a spoon, 
my only true love
C C C
Never really heard you speak that 
way, it’s unworthy of…
C C C
Funny how that little college girl 
called language corrupt
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Funny how the other private schools 
had no Hapa Club

C C C
Someone took a trip before you came 
to ski in the Alps
C C C
Your father moved across the country
 just to sunburn his scalp
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Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, 
contradict what I say
C C C                           
Living like the French 
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Connection, but we’ll die in A

Em              G           C   
Blasted from a disconnected 
                F
light switch
Em                  G            
Through the condo that they’ll 
     C           F
never finish
Em                 G          C 
Bounced across a Saudi satellite
             F
 dish
      Em                  G       
And through your brain to 
    C          C C C
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C C C
No one sits inside a freezing flat 
and stays there ‘til May
C C C
Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to 
surf the UK
C C C
Waiting with the wind against your 
face and gel in your hair
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Shivering in little undershirts,
                    F
 but don’t seem to care

Em              G           C   
Blasted from a disconnected 
                F
light switch
Em                  G            
Through the condo that they’ll 
     C           F
never finish
Em                 G          C 
Bounced across a Saudi satellite
             F
 dish
      Em                  G       
And through your brain to 
    C          C C C
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G
Sweet carob rice cake
           F             C
She don’t care how the sweets taste
F
Fake Philly cheese steak
             Em      C
But she use real toothpaste

F
Cuz if that Tom’s don’t work
Em
If it just makes you worse
F                             G  
Would you loose all of your faith
          C
 in the good earth

F
And if it’s all a curse
Em
And we’re just getting worse
F                            G   
Baby, please don’t lose your 
             C
faith in the good earth

Em              G           C   
Blasted from a disconnected 
                F
light switch
Em                  G            
Through the condo that they’ll 
     C           F
never finish
Em                 G          C 
Bounced across a Saudi satellite
             F
 dish
      Em                  G       
And through your brain to 
    C          C C C
California English