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