Key: E
Introduction:
E
1. You're the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs,
center of a crowd, talking much too loud running up and down the stairs.
A
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years,
E
and though you've tried you just can't hide your eyes are edged with tears.
B A E A
You better stop - look around, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
E
here it comes, here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.
E
2. When you were a child you were treated kind,
but you were never brought up right.
A
Your mother who neglected you owes a million dollars tax,
E
and your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax.
B A E A
You better stop - look around, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
E
here it comes, here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown.
B E
Oh, who's to blame, that girl's just insane, well nothing I do don't seem to work,
B E
It only seems to make matters worse. Oh please.
E
3. You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind,
and after that you turned your back on treating people kind.
A
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind,
E
but after a while I realized you were disarranging mine.
B A E A
You better stop, look around, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
E
here it comes, here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown,
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.....