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