Key: E
Introduction: Cm G
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The black cat firecracker snapped back baseball cappin'
Cm G Cm G
Cola-cola sippin' on the suds wearing penny loafers.
Cm G Cm G
His Sunday best ain't good enough for the rest of the world.
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Yet, he stands in line and waits on his turn.
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The complex, disconfigured man, unassociated,
Cm G Cm G
Agitated with the careful investigator taking notes.
Cm G
He slowly tiptoes towards the dark.
Ab Cm
Watercolor sunset painted before his eyes.
Ab G
The gateway has been opened, to the wonders of his mind.
Ab Cm
He was a non-believer, now without a doubt.
Ab G
He looks up at the clouds, the chemical swirls fading in and out.
Cm G Cm G
The peacekeeper drafted into war, with a loaded rifle.
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Unaware of consequences cold war ended with a spaceship has kind of shakers.
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He has been programmed to believe a lie.
Cm
Yet, he stands there with a gun on the front line.
Ab Cm
Blood red color sunset, painted before his eyes.
Ab G
The veil has been lifted, as he watches his friends drop like flies.
Ab Cm
He was a non-believer, now without a doubt.
Ab G
He looks down at his paws, the guts he had spluttered on the ground.
Ab
Yeah, yeah!
G
Yeah, yeah!
Ab
Yeah, yeah!
G
Yeah, yeah!
G Cm
The family got the letter, it was a message, clear and true.
Ab Cm
The hero, he had fallen, for the red, white, and blue.
Ab Cm
He was a non-believer, now without a doubt.
Ab
His body lays six feet under the ground.
G
The black cat's nine lives, they ran out.
Ab
Yeah, yeah!
G
Yeah, yeah!
Ab
Yeah, yeah!
G
Yeah, yeah!