Key: A
Introduction:
B
B A B
Forgive me if I'm out of order
B A B
this new "music" has no soul.
B A B
It may be good for making money,
B A B
(sadly that is not my goal).
G F# E A B
Integrity and honesty are words that you don't understand,
G F# E A B
but you're the best - it says so in the penny dreadful in your hand.
B A B
I saw you in the magazine,
B A B
they're calling you messiah.
B A B
They must be living in a dream
B A B
they couldn't be more wrong.
A
If we'd played this riff more punk,
B
than may be we'd have had a million seller.
A
But this piper's tune is not for sale,
B
(I'm glad to say I'm not that kind of fella).
D
D.J.s, V.J.s, pimps and trollops,
B
never mind music - this is bollocks.
B A B
I saw you in the magazine,
B A B
they're calling you messiah.
B A B
They must be living in a dream
B A B
they couldn't be more wrong.
G F# E A B
Turn on, tune up, cash in, sell out.
G F# E A B
Turn on, tune up, cash in, sell out.
B A B
Stand your ground behind the times
B A B
and refuse to follow fashion
B A B
Write your poetry with anger,
B A B
(and then sing it with a passion).
G F# E A B
Painted faces in a circus - images that spring to mind,
G F# E A B
when I read my penny dreadful filled with pictures of your kind.
B A B
I saw you in the magazine,
B A B
they're calling you messiah.
B A B
They must be living in a dream
B A B
they couldn't be more wrong.
A
Commercial suicide's appealing after
B
ten years on this losing streak.
A
'Cause I'd rather be called sour and bitter
B
then be deemed the flavour of the week.
B A B
I saw you in the magazine,
B A B
they're calling you messiah.
B A B
They must be living in a dream
B A B
they couldn't be more wrong.
Extra, extra, read all about it!
B A B
I saw you in the magazine,
B A B
they're calling you messiah.
B A B
They must be living in a dream
B A B
they couldn't be more wrong.