Tom: G
Introdução:
C G
I?ve got to find a better coping mechanism
C G
I?m falling apart, disintegrating in the schism
D C
Is it a show or is it realism
G C G
Lost and found and then I was locked up in a prison
C G
I better find a more suitable solution
C G
Before I reach the most predictable conclusion
D C
To be the victim of my personal delusion
G C G
Just to find that I?ve been living an illusion
G C
They say there?s just no substitute for the real thing
G C G
The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing
D D7
You can take the needle and shove it in your vein
G C G
And call it medication to alleviate you pain
C G
I do my best to keep the confusion to a minimum
C G
I?ll try not to be the monster of the millennium
D C
Someday they?ll thank us for the hell that we was givin? em
G C G
When all of this time we just hope we were borderline offendin? em
G C
They say there?s just no substitute for the real thing
G C G
The kind of chemical that can make your whole body sing
D D7
Scrub it till you?re bleedin? but you can?t scrub out the stain
G C G Em
Leave your mouth wide open while you?re drowning in the rain
G Em
Put your head down, wipe the spit out your eye
G Em
Ain?t nobody coming to your poor me parade
G
When trouble comes to your door, what you ignoring it for
A D
You?ll be standing there helpless when it comes on in
D C
They say there?s just no substitute for the real thing
G C G
The kind of chemical that?ll make your whole body sing
D D7
You can test your merit, you can show it some restraint
G C G
But in the end you?re just a predictable refrain
C
Oh, ain?t nothing like the real thing
G C G
The kind of chemical that?ll make your whole body sing
D D7
You can test your merit, you can show it some restraint
G C G
But in the end you?re just a predictable refrain
C G
While you?re poison in your brain (Cause you?re heart has been mislain)
C G
But you?re gonna die just the same (For a dream you could not attain)
C G
Cause you drove yourself insane (And there?s nobody left to blame)
C G
So you just carry on an complain
C G
Till you forget your name