Key: C
Introduction:
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It was somewhere in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
C Am F E+ D
A house was gutted, added onto six times its weight.
C Am F E+ D
About a week to go until the move-in date,
F G
And everybody runnin' in a six-day race.
C Am F E+ D
There was bangin', there was buzzin' everybody on their knees.
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"Runnin' behind," everyone can agree.
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Yet Four O'Clock arrive and someone brought back a case,
F C G
And the power went out in the whole damn place.
F C
Property is theft until the thieves are away.
F C
If we did this in a month, we'd be arrested and detained
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For draggin' all our brains beyond the barbed-wire chain
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And drinkin' on private land.
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F C
Well, toss the empties in the garden.
F
The scapers'll scrape 'em out when they come back to dig in,
G
Maybe leave a cap beneath the root as proof that we exist.
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