Intro
B
Verse
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Monsieur Dupont he was an ordinary fellow
Cadd9 G#m7 F#sus4
Equally bad and good
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Got sick of women so he got into porno
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And gave to charities 'cause he knew he should
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Never gave up on striving for the rainbow
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Mindless happiness with a healthy lawn
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Trembling with joy at the thought of a new TV
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Under a regime of robots in authority
Chorus
B F# Cadd9 G#m7 F#sus4
Plastic flowers laying on his grave
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From the company he gave thirty-two years to
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Plastic flowers melting in the sun
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C# memento to the glorious things he's done
Verse
He had a car and a home on the Northside
Respectable neighbourhood
And all his struggling to obtain riches
Laying dead it doesn't do him much good
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world
And yet to lose his soul
What does it profit a man to love little
And not be loved at all
Chorus
Middle
B B/D#
In my life I pray
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I don't just follow blindly x2
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All the plans preset for me
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And without question become my enemy
Verse
The factory people carry on without him
Another face occupies his place
He had friends but he never really knew them
Such a shame that he went so young
Above the terraces and multi-storey car parks
He will be sitting trial
Too late to gasp out for God at his last breath
Hoping that he's got a loophole or two left
Chorus
Outro
B F# Cadd9 G#m7 F#sus4 Cadd9 G#m7 F# F#sus4 F#
Plastic flowers fade away
B F# Cadd9 G#m7 F#sus4 Cadd9 G#m7 F# F#sus4 F#
Plastic flowers fade away
B F# Cadd9 G#m7 F#sus4 Cadd9 G#m7 F# F#sus4 F#
Plastic flowers fade away
B F# Cadd9 G#m7 F#sus4 Cadd9 G#m7 F# F#sus4 F#
Plastic flowers fade away
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