Verse
G# C# G# C#
Helena, the ramifications are very large tonight
G# C# D#
The stars say don't pick a fight or barge things around
G# C# G# C#
See, apparently our bloodlines are botched beyond redemption
G# C#
Luckily, you don't believe in redemption
D# C#
This may work in your favor, I'm told
[Chorus]
D#m7 Fm
So throw the old furniture in the fire
D#m7 Fm
As the children go barbaric behind the wire
F#maj7 C#
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
F#maj7
[Verse 2]
G# C# G#
It's a drag the way your flag had to come down
C# G# C# D# C#
With one of the above Americas so ferociously in bloom
G#
But pistols at dawn can only work for so long
C#
Curved appetites took flight when you decided to call the song
G# C# D# C#
“C# Pacific-Northwest Bitch Gets Shown To Her Room”
[Chorus]
D#m7 Fm
So throw the old furniture in the fire
D#m7 Fm
As the children go barbaric behind the wire
F#maj7 C#
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
F#maj7 C#
D#m7 Fm
And this one goes out, just like the one before
D#m7 Fm
To the 17th version of How I Won the War
D#m7 Fm
Oh, first Destroyer! And, oh, now the Underground!
[Bridge]
F#m C# A#m
F#m C# A#m
F#m C# A#m
F#m
[Verse 3]
G# C# G# C#
Helena, the ramifications are very large tonight
G# C# D# C#
The stars say don't pick a fight or barge things around
[Outro]
D#m7 Fm
So throw the old furniture in the fire
D#m7 Fm
As the children go barbaric behind the wire
F#maj7 C#
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
F#maj7 C#
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
F#maj7 C#
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en
F#maj7 C#
They're just childre-eh-eh-eh-en