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