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Version 1
[Verse 1]
C F C
Sobriety's good but so is being high
C F C
Society's fine with the passage of time
C F C
Try slow it down so I can unwind
C F Am Em F
Tragedy's comedy if you can get through it
Am Em F
If you can get through it
[Verse 2]
C F C
Perspective's impossible from this position
C F C
I don't care either way, don't make it my decision
C F C
I'm not the one with the plan, I'm the one with the vision
C F Am Em F
Tragedy is comedy if you can get through it
Am Em F
If you can get through it
[Chorus]
G F
God is dead and reality is fake
C
It's a hive mind nightmare of a dying race
G F
And there is no luck and there is no fate
C
And nobody cares about you or your pain
Am Em F
That becomes freedom if you look at it that way
Am Em F
That becomes freedom if you look at it that way
C
[Verse 3]
C C
I've always been more distressing than cool
C F C
I'm a blood nose on the first day of school
C F C
My own quiet life at the bottom of the pool
C F Am Em F
Tragedy's comedy if you can get through it
Am Em F
If you can get through it
[Verse 4]
C F C
Come a long way from a neck in a noose
C F C
Look me in the eye and call that an excuse
C F C
I wasn't sure what to make tight or keep loose
C F Am Em F
Was never a boy scout, so I fell straight through it
Am Em F
I fell straight through it
[Chorus]
G F
God is dead and reality is fake
C
It's a hive mind nightmare of a dying race
G F
And there is no luck and there is no fate
C
And nobody cares about you or your pain
Am Em F
That becomes freedom if you look at it that way
Am Em F
That becomes freedom if you look at it that way
Am Em F
Yeah, that way
Am Em F
[Outro]
F
But I wanna be
C F
The boy at the bar mitzvah, the child at the christening
Am G
The corpse at the funeral, the bride at the wedding
C F
And none of this matters, so we shouldn't just stop
Am G C
Not with all the perpetual motion we've got or we had
F
Who knows? Not like I'm going to shows
Am G
I'm pissing in the wind, I don't know which way it blows
C F
Coming straight out of Box Hill like a bat out of hell
Am G C
If you're not gonna forget me, remember me well