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