Tonalità: G# minor
Verse 1
G#m
One- fifty one- thousand
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G#m
F#
Six- hundred people die
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every day on Earth
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G#m
F#
And if that's not a reason to cry
G#m
Well, it's an awful lot
of paperwork
It's your first day at work
E#m
C#
How've you settled in?
F#
Shaken off the rigor mortis? Sorted
G#m
Out your pencil tin?
Welcome to our newest
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E#dim
resident skeleton
F#
What better heaven than a desk
G#m
To spend forever in? Now, your
body may be
Shrivelled up and worthless
F#
At least we know your funeral
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Will be a civil ser vice
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Persons so superfluous are living
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F#
On the surface it's nothing
so perturbing
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We're just trimming off the surplus
It isn't murder if you
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Cause a little accident
F#
We prefer to word it as
Some "mortal middle
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management"
There's the door
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We've got millions of applicants
F#
G#m
Dying for some cor porate
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Incorporeal entanglement
Verse 2
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Everything living has to die
G#m
F#
But to die, you need not apply
D#
G#m
We'll find you when your
time's through
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F#
Take a number, wait in line
Live your life and we'll be right
G#m
behind you
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Nothing's certain but death and taxes
F#
So I guess you'd better
get some practice
G#m
Nothing's certain
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but death and taxes
F#
So I guess you'd better
G#m
So I guess you'd better
C#
You've got targets to prove yourself
Verse 3
F#
Here's some targets,
G#m
peruse yourself
Shoo a few humans off the
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C#
F#
Mortal shelf to the floor
We'll be polishing the coffins as
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You off a couple more
E#dim
We need a botanist, two paleontologists
F#
A newspaper columnist whose views
G#m
May be communist
A shoe salesman,
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C#
F#
possible balloon hobbyist
Just another couple popped clogs
G#m
For your shop ping list
No slacking on the grave packing
E#m
C#
F#
Ever more to kill death
row deplorables
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Incurables and "sort of ill"
every person
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Animal and plant has a form to fill
F#
We've got departments
solely tasked
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With killing chlorophyll so, of course
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You will toe the lifeline
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and behave
F#
Or you'll be filing dandelions before
G#m
You've had your tea break
Humanity's in balance
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G#m
If that balance isn't repaid
F#
G#m
Interns can be inhumed
G#m
and replaced
Verse 4
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Everything living has to die
G#m
F#
But to die, you need not apply
G#m
We'll find you when your
time's through
E#dim
F#
Take a number, wait in line
Live your life and we'll be
D#
G#m
right behind you
E#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
F#
So I guess you'd better get
G#m
some practice
E#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
F#
So I guess you'd better
G#m
So I guess you'd better
Verse 5
C#
Ashes to ashes, nine to five
F#
The light in the tunnel has been
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privatised
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Robes were so behind the times
F#
These ob ituaries don't give any
D#
G#m
Time for scythes
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Population moderation's not
the worst fate
F#
Your occupation's the salvation of
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The hearse trade
for generations
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We've been racing for
the first place
F#
G#m
But we've spent the cen turies in
Verse 6
Second to the birth rate
G#m
E#dim
Everything living has to die
G#m
F#
But to die, you need not apply
G#m
We'll find you when your
time's through
E#dim
F#
Take a number, wait in line
Live your life and we'll be right
G#m
behind you
E#dim
Nothing's certain but death and taxes
F#
So I guess you'd better
get some practice
G#m
Nothing's certain
E#dim
C#
but death and taxes
F#
So I guess you'd better
G#m
So I guess you'd better
C#
Dearly indentured We are
Verse 7
F#
gathered here today
to pay tribute
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To the life of the departed
F#
And to welcome him to the office
May he rest employed
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