Tom: D
Riff (A )
Intro:
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I don't care if it rains or freezes
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as long as I've got my plastic Jesus
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sitting on the dashboard of my car
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it comes in colors pink and pleasant
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it glows in the dark cause its iridescent
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I'll take it with me whenever I go far
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so give me my lady Madonna
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dressed in rhinestones and sitting on a
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pedestal of abalone shells
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driving 90 but I'm not scared
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because I've got my Virgin Mary
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assuring me that I will never go to hell
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And by the way You know that
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hope will make you strange
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Make you blink, make you blank, make you sink
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It will make you afraid of change
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And often blame
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The box with the view of the world
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And the walls that fill the frame
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I turn it up
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but then I turn it off
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Because I can't stand when they start to talk
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About the hurting and killing
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Whose shoes are we filling
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The damage and ruin
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Man, the things that we're doing
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Good god, We gotta stop, we gotta turn it all off
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We gotta rewind
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and start it up again
Riff (
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because we fell across the fall line
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ain't there nothing sacred anymore
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Nana nana nana na
G, D, G, D, G,
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Somebody saw him jump
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But nobody saw him slip
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I guess he lost a lot of hope
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And then he lost his grip
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Now he's lying in the freeway
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In the middle of this mess
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Guess we lost another one
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Just like the other one
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Optimistic hypocrite
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That didn't have the nerve to quit
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The things that kept him wanting more
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Until he finally reached the core
Riff (
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he fell across the fall line
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ain't there nothing sacred anymore
Riff (
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we fell across the fall line
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ain't there nothing sacred anymore
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Nana nana nana na
G, D, G,
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G D
Nana nana nana na
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All my friends are getting older,
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I guess I must be too.
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Without their love and kindness
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I don't want I'll do
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Oh the wine bottle's half empty
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The money's all been spent
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We're a cross between our parents
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And hippies in a tent.
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Oh, Love calls just like a wild bird
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It's just another day
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Spring blew my list of things to do away.
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In a mucked up lovely river
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I cast my my little fly
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But I look at that river and I smell it and
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it makes me want to cry, Oh
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To clean our dirty planet
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Now there1s a noble wish
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Now I putting shoulder to the wheel
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Cause I wanna catch some fish, Oh
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Love calls just like a wild bird
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It's just another day
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Spring blew my list of things to do away