E5
i want to tell you a little story
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'bout a party that went all right,
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but went all wrong
E5
i want to tell you a little story
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'bout a party in this song...
E5 C#5 G#5 A#5 E5 C#5 G#5)
(palm muted)
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it happened back in '93,
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in the pittsburgh punk rock scene
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an event that will go down, in infamy
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it was all the master plan,
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of one legendary punk rock kid
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his name was spaz, S-P-A-Z...
(palm muted)
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an eviction notice sent to his house sparked off an idea,
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i should have one last party at my place...
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so off he set with his master plan,
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the invitations in his hand read,
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you're invited to my house destruction party!
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spaz's house destruction party,
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it was chaos with no end
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if you were crazy enough
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to make the house destruction party
F#5 C#5 G#5
then you know you're lucky that you lived
E5 C#5 G#5 A#5 E5 C#5 G#5)
(palm muted)
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we played there st. patrick's day,
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with submachine and the bad genes
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in a basement full of debris
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from kicked in doors, broken glass,
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kicked in walls the place was trashed
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the house was now missing its support beams
(palm muted)
A#5
the bathrooms had no toilets
G#5
or sinks left in them
F#5
there was nothing
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in the kitchen left to break
A#5
aus rotten spray painted on walls,
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drunk punks passed out in the halls
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and this was just the second night,
G#5
or a three-day long party
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spaz's house destruction party,
A#5 F#5 C#5 G#5 F#5 F5Em
it was chaos with no end
F#5 C#5
if you were crazy enough
G#5 A#5
to make the house destruction party
F#5 C#5 G#5
then you know you're lucky that you lived
(bridge)
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the cops showed up and all the kids
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went piling out the back
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i remember running away and hiding out
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in the lot behind the squirrel hill mellon bank
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the cop said, i want to speak
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to someone who lives here!
C#5
and this punk kid said she did
A#5
he asked, is
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this the condition this house has always been in?
she answered, ah... yeah, it is
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spaz's house destruction party,
A#5 F#5 C#5 G#5 F#5 F5Em
it was chaos with no end
F#5 C#5
if you were crazy enough
G#5 A#5
to make the house destruction party
F#5 C#5 G#5
then you know you're lucky that you lived