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