Key: D
Introduction:
D G
We are bouncing and dancing as you sing your lullaby
D G
Shouting 'move' when you say 'stay'
D G
The tune of your flute is a rifle you shoot
D G
That lays us all down to be prey.
A
They love you, we hate you,
G D G D
They made you, we brake you today, ya-ha
G D G A G
Break it away, ya-ha-haa
D G
We are painting the walls, making jokes out of laws
D G
Hiding sleeping pills under our tongues
D G
Shut the light, close the door, we spit them to the floor
D G
Then we're hummin' and a-strummin' and a-bangin' on drums
A G D G D
What did you know when you said we are wasting away? ya-ha
G D GA D G D G D GA
How could you say?
D
How could you say we just waste away, waste away?
G
Big table, not big enough...
D G
How could you say we just waste away, waste away?
D G
Hummin' and a-strummin' and a-bangin'
D G D
We will not be lulled into slumber by you,
G D A
We will not be lulled into sleep.
D G D
For we've had a taste of this wonderous place
G D A
And its treasures we intend to keep.
Bm Em
We will not be lulled into slumber
G Bm A
We will not be lulled into sleep
D
For we've had a taste of
G D
this wonderous place
G D A
And its treasures we intend to keep.
D
For we've had a taste of
G D
this wonderous place
G D A
And its treasures we intend to keep.
D
So now when they say we just
G
waste away, waste away
D G
You can say 'hey, it's not so.'
D G
Why is it then that we're growing and growing and growing and growing,
A G
And showing them all what we know? yeah yeah yeah yeah!
D
We will not be lulled into
G D G D A
slumber by you, la-dadadaa
D
For we've had a taste of
G D G D A
this wonderous place, la-dadadada
G A
We will not be lulled into sleep
D
For we've had a taste of
G D
this wonderous place
G D A
And its treasures we intend to keep.
D
For we've had a taste of
G D
this wonderous place
G D A
And its treasures we intend to keep.
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