Verse
C
Stand up straight just like a man
G C
Be counted with all the rest
C
Work real hard and graduate
G C
You need a well deserved good rest
C
Find a job and find a mate
G C
Settle down in a house in the suburbs
[Instrumental]
C G
C
These are dreams they gave to you
G C
I can feel when they're not yours
C
My skin peels like wallpaper
G C G
In the house that we don't go to anymore
[Instrumental]
C G X4
[Verse 2]
C
Feelings are far too radical
G C
To ever see eye to eye
C
A mother's son was killed today
G C
And only what she knows is why
C
Beheaded by hands of so-called faith
G C
Maybe for a chance to live in the sky
C
Whatever the goal and point they saw it
G C
I don't think that was the way to go about it
G C
They don't see a way around it
[Instrumental]
C G
[Outro]
C
Finally, I've come home, slipping off my shoes
G C
Into a land that brings such safety to me
[Instrumental]
C G x4