Tom:C#
PART I:
Verse 1:
C#
(no chords)
I'm the son of rage and love
Bb
(no chords)
The Jesus of suburbia
F#
The bible of none-of-the-above
Ab
On a steady diet of...
C#
(no chords)
Soda pop and Ritalin
Bb
(no chords)
No one ever died for my sins
F#
In hell, far as I can tell
Ab
At least the ones I got away with
Chorus 1:
F#Ab
And there's nothing wrong with me
F#Ab
This is how I'm supposed to be
F#Ab
In a land of make-believe
(no chords)
I don't believe in me
C#AbF# (repeat 2x)
Verse 2:
C#
(no chords)
Get my television fix
Bb
(no chords)
Sitting on my crucifix
F#
A living room on my private womb
Ab
While the moms and brads are away
C#
(no chords)
So fall in love and fall in debt
Bb
(no chords)
To alcohol and cigarettes
F#
And Mary-Jane, to keep me insane
Ab
Doing someone else's cocaine
Chorus 1:
F#Ab
And there's nothing wrong with me
F#Ab
This is how I'm supposed to be
F#Ab
In a land of make-believe
(no chords)
I don't believe in me
C#AbF# (repeat 2x)
Bridge 1:
C#BbF#AbC#FBbAbF#Ab
PART II:
Verse 3:
(soft) C#Ab
At the center of the Earth in the parking lot
BbAb
Of the Seven-Eleven where I was taught
F#Ab
The motto was just a lie
(soft) C#Ab
It says home is where your heart is, but what a shame
BbAb
Cuz' everyone's heart doesn't beat the same
F#Ab
It's beating out of time
Chorus 2:
BbAb
City of the dead
C#F#
At the end of another lost highway
BbAbF#
Signs misleading to nowhere
BbAb
City of the damned
C#F#
Lost children with dirty faces today
BbAbF#
No one really seems to care
Verse 4:
(soft) C#Ab
I read the graffiti on the bathroom stall
BbAb
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
F#Ab
And so it seemed to confess
(soft) C#Ab
It didn't say much but it only confirmed
BbAb
That the center of the Earth is the end of the world
F#Ab
And I can really care less.
Chorus 2:
BbAb
City of the dead
C#F#
At the end of another lost highway
BbAbF#
Signs misleading to nowhere
BbAb
City of the damned
C#F#
Lost children with dirty faces today
BbAbF#
No one really seems to care
PART III:
Solo:AbC#AbF#EbC#GF#EbC#EbAb
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------6--------7--7--7--6--------------9--
G-----------6--6--6--------------8--6--------------8--6--8--8-----
D--6--6--6-----------6--6--6--------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------
Chorus 3:
AbC# \
I don't care if you don't |
|
AbEb| Repeat this part
I don't care if you don't | 4 times
|
F#C#Ab|
I don't care if you don't care |
/
BbAb
I don't care...
Bridge 2:
C#AAb (repeat 4x)
Verse 5:
(no chords) AAb
Everyone's so full of shit
(no chords) AAb
Born and raised by hypocrites
(no chords) AAb
Hearts recycled but never saved
(no chords) AAb
From the cradle, to the grave
(no chords) AAb
We are the kids of War and Peace
(no chords) AAb
From Anaheim to the Middle East
(no chords) AAb
We are the stories and disciples of
(no chords) AAb
The Jesus of Suburbia
Pre-Chorus 3:
F#AbC#Ab
Land of make-believe
F#AbC#Ab
And it don't believe in me.
F#AbC#Ab
Land of make-believe
F#AbC#Ab
And I don't believe.
Chorus 3:
F#AbC#
And I don't care.
F#AbC#
I don't care.
F#AbC#
I don't care.
F#AbC#
I don't care.
F#AbC#
I don't care.
C#Ab
PART IV:
Verse 6:
AbC
Dearly beloved are you listening
C#AbEb
I can't remember a word that you were saying
AbC
Are we demented or am I disturbed
C#AbEb
The space that's in between insane and insecure
AbCC#AbEbAbC
Oh therapy can you please fill the void
C#AbEb
Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed
AbC
Nobody's perfect and I stand accused
C#AbEb
For lack of a better word and that's my best excuse (sigh)
AbCC#AbEb
PART V:
Verse 7:
(kinda hard to express the rhythm here; just repeat the little verse
intro)
Ab (root only) F#C# (repeat 4x)
AbF#C#AbF#C#
To live and not to breathe
AbF#C#AbF#C#
is to die in tragedy
AbF#C#AbF#C#
To run, to run away
AbF#C#AbF#C#
To find what you believe
Chorus 4:
(again, kinda hard to express rhythm; each chord is strummed only once and
on the beat)
C#AbC#AbC#Ab
And I
EbAbEbAbEbAb
leave behind
C#AbC#AbC#Ab
This hurricane
EbAbEbAbEbAb
of fucking lies
Verse 8:
AbF#C#AbF#C#
I lost my faith to this
AbF#C#AbF#C#
This town, that don't exist
AbF#C#AbF#C#
So I run, I run away
AbF#C#AbF#C#
The light of masochist
Chorus 4:
C#AbC#AbC#Ab
And I
EbAbEbAbEbAb
leave behind
C#AbC#AbC#Ab
This hurricane
EbAbEbAbEbAb
of fucking lies
C#AbC#AbC#Ab
And I
EbAbEbAbEbAb
walked this line
C#AbC#AbC#Ab
On million and one
EbAbEbAbEbAb
fucking times
But not this time
Solo 2:
Ab(oct) F# C# (repeat 2x, then the part below)
E---------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------
G--6--8--6--10--6--8--6--5--3--6--3--5-- (repeat 2x)
D---------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----7p6-----9p6-----7p6-----9p6-----9p8-----11p8-----9p8-----11p8--
G--6-------6-------6-------6-------8-------8--------8-------8--------
D--------------------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------
PART VI:
Verse 9:
(no chords, just piano)
I don't feel any shame, I won't apologize
When there ain't nowhere you can go
Running away from pain when you've been victimized
Tales from another broken...home
Outro:AbF#C#
You're leaving
AbF#C#
You're leaving
AbF#C#
You're leaving
AbF#C#
You're leaving home.
Ab(oct)F#C# (repeat 2x)
Ab