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